India Bryce

Dr. India Bryce is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland's School of Psychology and Wellbeing, affiliated with the Centre for Health Research. Her career spans roles including PhD (2023, USQ), Master of Social Work (2023, Charles Sturt), and prior qualifications in Education and Counselling. She supervises doctoral research on topics like Indigenous youth justice, refugee women's resettlement, and trauma-informed educational practices.

Her research focuses on cumulative harm in child maltreatment, trauma-informed pedagogy, domestic violence education, and family law systems. Notable work includes developing frameworks for assessing cumulative harm in child protection, analyzing separated parents' school experiences, and exploring juvenile offending motivations through forensic victimology.

• Education: BEd (USQ, 2008), MCouns (JCU, 2010), MSocWk (Monash, 2015), MSocWk(Qualifying) (Charles Sturt, 2023), PhD (USQ, 2023)
• Key Research Themes: Child welfare policy, trauma-informed practices, domestic violence interventions, juvenile justice reform

Dr. Bryce has published extensively on topics like disaster resilience in families, VR-based social work training, and trigger warnings in higher education. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration between legal, educational, and clinical systems to address systemic challenges in child protection and marginalized communities.