Director - Professor Nicole Moulding
Professor Nicole Moulding is the Director of the Safe Relationships and Communities Research Group (SRC) and Professor of Social Work in UniSA: Justice & Society. Nicole is an internationally recognised scholar and researcher in the area of gendered violence, and the gendered aspects of mental health and wellbeing. She is the author of Gendered Violence, Mental Health and Recovery in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma (2016) and co-author of The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women’s Citizenship (2019). Nicole has published more than 40 research articles in this field based on her research into gendered violence and mental health and wellbeing.
Deputy Director - Dr Fiona Buchanan
Dr Fiona Buchanan is a senior lecturer with the University of South Australia. Before entering academia, Fiona worked for many years with women and child survivors of domestic and family violence in the UK and then Australia. Her research interests are concerned with children, mothering and relationships between women and children affected by domestic violence. She is also known for utilises creative methodologies in her research. Fiona has presented at many global conferences and published widely in international journals plus authored seven book chapters. Her book: Mothering in domestic violence: beyond attachment theory, (2018) is published by Routledge.
