Professor Kristin Natalier

My work centres on familial and intimate relationships as lived experiences and as sites of policy intervention and interactions with the state. 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 pursuing 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; gendered power and abuse in familial contexts, including post-separation relationships.   young women's experience of violence and homelessness; and institutional responses to domestic and family violence.