My work centres on the gendered nature of familial and intimate relationships as lived experiences and as sites of policy intervention. Specifically, I use qualitative methods to analyze how people make sense of the joys and challenges of negotiating intimate relationships in the context of personal and social change.

My current research includes: an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on children’s understandings of ‘home’ when their parents separate/ divorce (with Professor Belinda Fehlberg [University of Melbourne] and Professor Bruce Smyth [ANU]); an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on supporting Australia's domestic and family violence workforce (with Flinders colleagues Professor Sarah Wendt and Dr Kate Seymour); and a Flinders University Innovation Partnership Seed Grant in collaboration with OARS Community Transitions, on developing accommodating domestic and family violence perpetrators as a strategy for change (with Flinders colleagues Dr Kate Seymour, Professor Sarah Wendt, Dr Carmela Bastian).

I have also published extensively in the area of housing and homelessness.

I am in the early stages of developing cross-national research on how women imagine their maternal futures in the context of climate crisis, working with Associate Professor Debra King [Flinders], Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy, Associate Professor Sana Nakata and Dr Julia Hirst [University of Melbourne], and Professors Lynn Jamieson and Mary Holmes [University of Edinburgh].