Lived Experience

Lamb K, Fiolet R, Broadhurst K, De Silva HS, Hegarty K. Sailing Into Uncharted Territory: Victim Survivors’ Perspectives on Some of the Tensions of Engagement as Partners in Co-Design Research. Violence Against Women. 2025: 10778012251362227.

Fiolet R, Lamb K, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. A Chance to have a Voice: The Motivations and Experiences of Female Victim-Survivors of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence who Joined a Lived Experience Research Group. Journal of Family Violence. 2024 Aug 1:1-1.

Lamb K, McKay H, Baloch S, Hegarty K. Developing a Research Agenda with Victim-Survivors to Improve Health Sector Responses to Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence in Australia. Journal of Family Violence. 2024 Jul 27:1-8.

Tarzia L, Lamb K, McKibbin G, Parker R, Hegarty K. Using digital storytelling with women who have experienced intimate partner abuse: a qualitative exploration of participant experiences in Australia. Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 2023 Oct 1;7(3):414–34.

Health care settings

Bulford E, Baloch S, Neil J, Hegarty K. Primary healthcare practitioners’ perspectives on trauma-informed primary care: a systematic review. BMC primary care. 2024 Sep 12;25(1):336.

Hegarty K. A focus on perpetrators of intimate partner violence in mental health settings is urgently needed. BJPsych open. 2024 May;10(3):e115.

Kuruppu J, Novy K, Fetter L, Oo S, Hegarty K. “Family court…sucks out your soul”: Australian general practitioners’ experiences supporting domestic violence survivors through family court. BMC Primary Care. 2023 Apr 11;24(1).

Hegarty KL, Andrews S, Tarzia L.Transforming health settings to address gender-based violence in Australia. 2022 Jul 7;217(3).

Marsden S, Humphreys C, Hegarty K. Whose Expertise Counts? Women Survivors' Experiences With Psychologists. Violence & Victims. 2024 Feb 1;39(1).

Marsden S, Humphreys C, Hegarty K. Why Does He Do It? What Explanations Resonate During Counseling for Women in Understanding Their Partner’s Abuse?. 2021 Jan 23;088626052198985.

Health professionals experiencing domestic violence

McLindon EV, Spiteri-Staines A, Hegarty K. Domestic, family and sexual violence polyvictimisation and health experiences of Australian nurses, midwives and carers: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 22;24(1):2290.

McLindon E, Diemer K, Kuruppu J, Spiteri-Staines A, Hegarty K."You can't swim well if there is a weight dragging you down": cross-sectional study of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse prevalence against Australian nurses, midwives and carers. BMC Public Health. 2022 Sep 12;22(1).

. Dheensa, E. McLindon, C. Spencer, S. Pereira, S. Shresta, E. Emsley and A. Gregory. Healthcare Professionals' Own Experiences of Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence and Systematic Review of Risk Markers and Consequences. Trauma Violence & Abuse; 2022

Men Who Use Violence

Hegarty K, Tarzia L, Navarro Medel C, Hameed M, Chondros P, Gold L. Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a healthy relationship tool for men who use intimate partner violence (BETTER MAN). BMC Public Health. 2023 Dec 2;23 (1).

Tarzia L, McKenzie M, Addison MJ, Hameed MA, Hegarty K. “Help Me Realize What I’m Becoming”: Men’s Views on Digital Interventions as a Way to Promote Early Help-Seeking for Use of Violence in Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2023 Feb 10;088626052311538.

Children

Kuruppu J, Humphreys C, McKibbin G, Hegarty K. Navigating the grey zone in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare settings. Children and Youth Services Review. 2023 Jul 1;150:107029–9.

Kuruppu J, Humphreys C, McKibbin G, Hegarty K. Tensions in the therapeutic relationship: emotional labour in the response to child abuse and neglect in primary healthcare. BMC Primary Care. 2022 Mar 17;23(1).

Psychological violence

McLindon E, Kyei-Nimakoh M, Giles FC, FitzPatrick KM, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. Timelines of psychological, physical and sexual intimate partner violence among a nationally representative sample of Australian women. Women's Health. 2025 Jun;21:17455057251329640.

McLindon EV, Brown C, McKenzie M, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. Development and validation of the psychological abuse in relationships scale. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2025 Apr 3:08862605251325912.

Sexual Violence

Tarzia L, Chondros P, Trevena J, Hegarty K, Russell M, Sanci L. Exploring experiences of co-occurring sexual violence and fear of partner in an Australian university sample. Journal of Sexual Aggression. 2025 Sep 2:1-21.

McKenzie M, Medel CN, Tran LT, Forbes-Mewett H, Murdolo A, Tarzia L. A Shattered Dream: Women International Students’ Experiences of Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence in Australia. Journal of Family Violence. 2025 Aug 19:1-2.

Tarzia L, Navarro Medel C, McLindon E, Ezer P, Forbes-Mewett H, Tran LT, Murdolo A, Hegarty K. Experiences of sexual and intimate partner violence among women international students in Australia. Violence Against Women. 2025 Mar 12:10778012251323267.

Tarzia L, Brown C, McLindon E, Hegarty K. Development and Validation of the Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Scale (IPSVS): A Multi-Dimensional Scale to Measure Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2024 Oct 15:08862605241287803.

Peeren S, McLindon E, Tarzia L. “Counteract the gaslighting”–a thematic analysis of open-ended responses about what women survivors of intimate partner sexual violence need from service providers. BMC women's health. 2024 Feb 9;24(1):110.

Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Brown C, Hegarty K. Fear and distress: how can we measure the impact of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships?. Social Sciences. 2024 Jan 22;13(1):71.

Fiolet R, Brown C, McKay D, Marsden S, Leins K, Harris B. Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2023 Aug 2.

Diverse Populations

Baloch S, McLindon E, Hameed M, Hegarty K. South Asian women’s lived experiences of health care after disclosure of family violence: a qualitative meta-synthesis review. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 4;25:445.

Reproductive Coercion and Abuse

Tarzia L, Egan N, Harris ML, Loxton D. Prevalence and Predictors of Reproductive Coercion and Abuse by a Partner Among a National Population Sample in Australia. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.:08862605251372576.

Wellington M, Hegarty K, Tarzia L. Women’s lived experiences of reproductive coercion and abuse. Journal of family violence. 2025 Feb;40(2):249-58.

Tarzia L, McKenzie M. Reproductive coercion and abuse in intimate relationships: Women’s perceptions of perpetrator motivations. Plos one. 2024 Apr 16;19(4):e0299069.

McKenzie M, Humphreys C, Tarzia L. Mothering in the aftermath of reproductive coercion and abuse. Violence against women. 2024 Jul 23:10778012241263102.

Tarzia L, McKenzie M. Reproductive coercion and abuse in intimate relationships: Women’s perceptions of perpetrator motivations. Plos one. 2024 Apr 16;19(4):e0299069.

Medical Students

Neil JM, Barton C, Hegarty K. Should we be concerned? A qualitative study of educators’ perceptions of medical student wellbeing in domestic violence training. Medical teacher. 2024 Feb 1;46(2):245-51.

Survivor and Health Practitioner Qualitative Metasynthesis

Hegarty K, McKibbin G, Hameed M, Koziol-McLain J, Feder G, Tarzia L, et al. (2020) Health practitioners' readiness to address domestic violence and abuse: A qualitative meta-synthesis PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234067. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234067.

Hudspeth, N., Cameron, J., Baloch, S. et al. Health practitioners’ perceptions of structural barriers to the identification of intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 96 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07491-8

Tarzia, L., Cameron, J., Watson, J. et al. Personal barriers to addressing intimate partner abuse: a qualitative meta-synthesis of healthcare practitioners’ experiences. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 567 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06582-2.

Fiolet, R., Cameron, J., Tarzia, L., Gallant, D., Hameed, M., Hooker, L., Koziol-McLain, J., Glover, K., Spangaro, J., & Hegarty, K. (2020). Indigenous People's Experiences and Expectations of Health Care Professionals When Accessing Care for Family Violence: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 23(2), 567-580.

Tarzia L, Bohren MA, Cameron J, Garcia-Moreno C, O'Doherty L, Fiolet R, Hooker L, Wellington M, Parker R, Koziol-McLain J, Feder G, Hegarty K. Women’s experiences and expectations after disclosure of intimate partner abuse to a healthcare provider: A qualitative meta-synthesis. BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 27;10(11):e041339.

Other

Giles FC, McKenzie M, Kyei-Nimakoh M, Satyen L, Tarzia L, Hegarty K. Management of imposter participants when conducting online research with victim-survivors and perpetrators of violence. Methodological Innovations. 2025 Jun 1:20597991251333345.

Mathews B, Hegarty KL, MacMillan HL, Madzoska M, Erskine HE, Pacella R, Scott JG, Thomas H, Meinck F, Higgins D, Lawrence DM. The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey. Medical Journal of Australia. 2025 May 19;222(9):440-8.