Director - Professor Nicole Moulding
Professor Nicole Moulding is the Director of the Social 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.
Co-Director - A/Prof Brad West
Associate Professor Brad West is the Co-Director of the Social Relationships and Communities Research Group (SRC) and is an Associate Professor of Sociology in UniSA: Justice & Society. He is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and was previously the co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory (2018-2023). His recent publications include the sole authored books Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History, Re-enchanting Nationalisms, and the co-edited collections Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture (with Thomas Crosbie) and The New Australian Military Sociology (with Cate Carter). In recent years he has been an advocate for the development of a 'strong' research program on the interconnections between war, the military and the civil sphere, part of which has included co-founding the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group and Self@Arts, the latter running an arts based wellbeing program for the Australian Defence Force Soldier Recovery Centre in Darwin.
Full members
Affiliate Members
SRC Research Associates
Higher Degree by Research Students
Ms Michelle Caruso
Project Title: Constructing mental illness identities in community-based involuntary treatment: A discourse analysis
Principal Supervisor: Professor Nicole Moulding, Co-Supervisor: Dr Shepard Masocha
Mrs Siti Fitriani
Project Title: The Experiences of Parenting: Perception and Practices of Papuan Parents
Principal Supervisor: Dr Carole Zufferey, Co-Supervisors: Dr Fiona Buchanan, Dr Nada Ibrahim
Ms Trang Le
Project Title: Vietnamese social work practitioners' attitudes toward and perceptions of practice with sexual minorities
Principal Supervisor: Dr Nilan Yu, Co-Supervisors: Dr Fiona Buchanan, Dr Stephanie Webb
Mr Shane Fotheringham
Project Title: What are the discourses underpinning the AASW’s advocacy of mandatory registration?
Principal Supervisor: Nilan Yu, Co-Supervisor: Shepard Masocha, End-User Supervisor: Patricia Muncey
Mr Tyson Morales-Boyce
Project Title: Choice and control under the National Disability Insurance Scheme: The experience of adults with intellectual disabilities in rural and regional South Australia.
Principal Supervisor: Dr. Nilan Yu, Co-Supervisors: Associate Professor Caroline Ellison, Professor Lia Bryant
Ms Paloma Cesare
Project Title: Online suicide prevention interventions for young females (aged 18-25 years of age)
Principal Supervisor: Professor Nicole Moulding, Co-Supervisor: Michele Jarldorn
Ms Amrit Kumar
Project Title: The role of sibling relationships in experiences of childhood emotional abuse
Principal Supervisor: Professor Nicole Moulding, Co-Supervisor: Dr Fiona Buchanan
Ms Rebecca Regan-Coe
Project Title: Understanding women's experiences of disclosing sexual violence through body-mapping
Principal Supervisor: Professor Nicole Moulding, Co-Supervisors: A/Prof Michelle Jones, Dr Ashlee Borgkvist
