There’s growing awareness that intimate partner violence is prevalent in Australia. Christine wants to investigate the impact of brain injury as a result of intimate partner violence.
A senior lecturer at the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Christine attained her PhD in 2016 in which she investigated functional changes after brain injury. Since then, Christine has taught and researched this topic. Christine also teaches about the issue of intimate partner violence, and has recently started researching the effects brain injury as a result of intimate partner violence – an issue which has received comparatively little research (or media) attention.
As well as teaching at UTAS, Christine is passionate about providing community education, and is part of a multidisciplinary team that has developed an online course on brain injury. Since its inception in 2020, this course has had over 70,000 participants, from over 200 countries. Extending on that course, Christine and the team were awarded a Medical Research Future Fund Grant to explore community understanding of traumatic brain injury. This work has produced multiple conference presentations and journal articles.
Christine applied for a Churchill Fellowship to visit countries where there is emerging research and education on the experience of brain injury caused by intimate partner violence. She plans to visit Canada, the U.S.A, and the U.K., where researchers, family violence organisations, and people with lived experience (including those from First Nation communities), are working together to undertake research and develop education materials specifically about brain injury caused by intimate partner violence. She hopes that by observing how organisations educate victim-survivors, frontline, and specialist workers about brain injury, she can develop education for Australians. She also hopes to foster relationships with international researchers, allowing for more collaborative and productive research on this understudied societal problem.
Project
To explore the effect of brain injury in victim-survivors of family violence
Christine Padgett
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