Nicole Moulding is a researcher and educator with special interests in mental health, gendered violence and social work education. She has published two books, one on gendered violence and mental health, the other a co-edited book on feminist social work. Nicole is involved in a number of ongoing research projects in this field in addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mental health in social work practice and research education. Current research projects include a nation-wide study into the long-term impact of domestic violence on women's citizenship, specifically mental health, housing and employment.
About me
Nicole Moulding is a researcher and educator with special interests in mental health, gendered violence and social work education. She has published two books, one on gendered violence and mental health, the other a co-edited book on feminist social work. Nicole is involved in a number of ongoing research projects in this field in addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mental health in social work practice and research education. Current research projects include a nation-wide study into the long-term impact of domestic violence on women's citizenship, specifically mental health, housing and employment.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide
Graduate Diploma in Public Health The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Social Work South Australian Institute of Technology
I worked as a professional social worker prior to entering academia with a particular focus on women's mental health and gendered violence. I took a post-doctoral postion in the School of Population Health at the University of Adelaide in 2004 after completing my doctoral thesis, which explored the gendered nature of theories and interventions used in treatment and prevention of eating disorders. I continued to build my research program in mental health through this period and came to the University of South Australia in 2007 to take up a position as a lecturer in social work in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. I have held numerous leadership positions over this period, including Research Degrees Coordinator and Honours Coordinator. I am currently the Discipline Head: Social Work and Human Services and Program Director for the Bachelor of Social Work Honours program.
I am currently involved in a national ARC Discovery study exploring the impact of domestic violence on women's citizenship with a particular focus on mental health, housing and employment. I am also publishing new work that reports on findings from my research into the gendered dimensions of childhood emotional abuse and the implications for mental health and wellbeing.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Gendered violence and citizenship: the complex effects of intimate partner violence on mental health, housing and employment, ARC - Discovery Projects, 14/04/2013 - 31/12/2017
Common Ground Evaluation, Department of Health SA, 07/08/2008 - 31/12/2015
Working with men who use violence, Uniting Communities, 01/04/2014 - 11/02/2015
Common ground Adelaide evaluation (DFC funds), Department of Human Services SA, 21/05/2009 - 21/11/2011
Moulding, N.T., Rowntree, M., Yu, N. & Buchanan, F. (2014) Transitions to Professional Work for Social Work Graduates: Final Report of a Learning and Teaching Project, University of South Australia, September.
Wendt, S., Tedmanson, D., Moulding, N.T. & Buchanan, F. (2014) Working from the Strength of Connection: Responding to Family Violence in the Northern Area Medicare Local Region, Final Report, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, June 2014.
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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4
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| 2014 |
12
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Moulding, N.T. (2016) Gendered Violence, Mental Health and Recovery in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma. London: Routledge.
Wendt, S. & Moulding, N.T. (2016) Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice. London: Routledge.
Moulding, N.T. (2016) ‘Putting gender in the frame: feminist social work and mental health’. In S. Wendt & N.T. Moulding (Eds.) Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice. London: Routledge.
Moulding, N.T. & Wendt, S. (2016) ‘Introduction’. In S. Wendt & N.T. Moulding (Eds.) Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice. London: Routledge.
Wendt, S. & Moulding, N.T. (2016) ‘Conclusion’. In S. Wendt & N.T. Moulding (Eds.) Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice. London: Routledge.
Moulding, N.T. (2009) ‘The anorexic as femme fatale: reproducing gender through the father-psychiatrist and daughter-patient’. In Malson, H. and Burns, M. (Eds.) Critical Feminist Perspectives On Eating Dis/Orders: An International Reader, London: Routledge.
Moulding, NT., Franzway, S., Wendt, S., Zufferey, C. & Chung, D. ‘Domestic violence and mental health: situating women’s emotional distress in everyday gender power relations’. Paper accepted for peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Stop the Violence Conference, Canberra, December, 2015.
Wendt, S., Chung, D., Franzway, S., Zufferey, C. & Moulding, N.T. ‘The relationship between intimate partner violence, mental health, housing, and employment: Australian women’s recollections’, Paper accepted for peer-reviewed conference proceedings Stop the Violence Conference, Canberra, December, 2015.
Hanisch, D., Moulding, N.T. & Wendt, S. (2015) ‘I blame myself’: re-victimization in women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder’. Trauma, Theory and Practice, 5th Global Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March.
Moulding, N.T., Franzway, S. Wendt, S., Chung, D. & Zufferey, C. (2014) ‘Domestic violence as an assault on selfhood: implications for women’s citizenship’, Qualitative Health Research Conference, Victoria, Canada, October.
Franzway, S. Wendt, S., Zufferey, C., Chung, D. & Moulding, N.T. (2014) ‘Gendered violence and citizenship: long term impacts on housing, employment and mental health’, Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities. The Australian Sociological Association Conference: 24 – 27 November Adelaide.
Wendt, S., Chung, D., Franzway, S., Moulding, N.T. & Zufferey, C. (2014) ‘Domestic violence & citizenship: impacts on mental health, housing, & employment’, International Social Work Conference, Melbourne, July.
Hanisch, D., Moulding, N.T. & Wendt, S. (2011) ‘My body isn't my own: child sexual abuse, borderline personality disorder and women's ongoing victimization’. Understanding and Working with the Consequences of Child Sexual Abuse, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham, UK, November.
Moulding, N.T. (2010) Flight of the phoenix: women’s narratives of developing and recovering from an eating disorder, Australian Women’s Gender Studies Conference, Adelaide, July.
Hanisch, D. & Moulding N.T. (2010) Adult survivors of child sexual abuse: an exploration of professional discourse, Australian Women’s Gender Studies Conference, Adelaide, July.
Moulding, N.T. (2009) Rite of passage: overcoming bulimia as a heroic quest, invited paper presented at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, July.
Research
I am currently involved in a national ARC Discovery study exploring the impact of domestic violence on women's citizenship with a particular focus on mental health, housing and employment. I am also publishing new work that reports on findings from my research into the gendered dimensions of childhood emotional abuse and the implications for mental health and wellbeing.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Australasian College of Physicians | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Warwick | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Executive memberAustralian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work |
2019 |
Invited member of the Editorial BoardAffilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work |
2019 |
MemberAustralian Association of Social Workers |
2019 |
Invited member of the Editorial BoardAffilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Association of Social Workers |
2018 |
Member, Steering CommitteeAustralian Association of Social Workers Family Violence |
2018 |
FacilitatorSouth Australian Joint Agency Social Work Futures Symposium |
2017 |
Invited EditorialAustralian Journal of Social Work |
2017 |
Invited memberThe Prato Group, Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work |
2017 |
Invited member of the Editorial BoardAffilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association of Social Workers |
2017 |
My teaching involves a focus on mental health in social work practice and research education. I have developed a highly relational approach to teaching based on the principle that learning occurs in relationship rather than through the passive intake of knowledge. This very much fits with my teaching areas: both mental health and research education involve the development of new knowlege, but also learning and practising skills, and the embrace of social work values and principles of ethical research. A relational approach to learning and teaching enables an integrated approach to learning across the dimensions of theory, practice and ethics, and allows for a dynamic two-way process between teachers and learners, as well as between peer learners.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal Australian women's diverse experiences of motherhood | Current |
| But you dont look sick. Making visible the lives of Australian young adults living with invisible and contested chronic illness. | Current |
| Caring and disability in rural Australia: a feminist standpoint analysis | Current |
| Child protection social workers and social work managers experience of mandatory registration | Current |
| Identifying discourses surrounding domestic violence and the impact of these on victim-blaming, stigma, and women's help-seeking behaviour. | Current |
| Shame: a core factor in the symptoms of PTSD and the development of comorbidities | Current |
| The constructions of body image in Australian celebrity magazines | Current |
| Iraqi women's experiences of war: select stories of survival | Completed |
| Success for university students with mental illness: building resilience and positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment | Completed |
| The concealed debate: a feminist exploration of childhood sexual abuse and its perceived role in the aetiology and maintenance of eating disorders in women | Completed |
| Trimillennium feminine sexualities: representations, lives and daydreams | Completed |
| Understanding the impact of child sexual abuse in women's sexual lives: a discourse analysis | Completed |
| What's culture got to do with it? ethnicity, culture and women's experience of child sexual abuse | Completed |
