Professor Kristin Natalier

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Social Science South
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

My work centres on 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.

I am currently undertaking an Australian Research Council Linkage Project with South Australia's Department for Child Protection, Anglicare SA and Life Without Barriers on applying the idea of home to improve the experiences and outcomes of young people in state (out-of-home) care (with Dr Kate Seymour and Dr Sharyn Goudie (Flinders University) and Dr Michelle Jones (University of South Australia)).  I have also undertaken research on  young people's understandings of ‘home’ when their parents separate/ divorce; young women's experience of violence and homelessness; and gendered power and abuse in familial contexts, including post-separation relationships.   

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), The University of Queensland

Honours, First Class (Sociology), The University of Tasmania

PhD (Sociology), The University of Queensland

Interests
  • Contemporary families and personal relationships
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