Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE240100584

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Social isolation and loneliness as factors maintaining domestic violence. Isolating victims from support systems is a common tactic of domestic violence, yet we know very little about a key psychological consequence of this: Loneliness. Early research has identified loneliness as a factor in victim-survivor decisions to stay in violent relationships and to return after escape. This project aims to understand loneliness as a feature of domestic violence and its long-term impacts on victim-survivors using a mixed-methods approach. This will include collection of repeated measures and qualitative data with victim-survivors and service workers. This project will endeavour to provide a comprehensive picture of the impact of loneliness on victims of domestic violence and how we can shape our future service responses.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-2024

End Date: 01-2027

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $408,416.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Social and personality psychology | Social psychology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)