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Dr India Bryce

Name India Bryce
Position Senior Lecturer (Counselling)
Section School of Psychology and Wellbeing
Office W524
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1192
Extension 1192
Email
Qualifications BEd USQ , MCouns JCU , MSocWk Monash , MSocWk(Qualifying) Charles Sturt , PhD USQ

Biography

BEd, MGuidCouns, MSW (Forensic Studies), MSW (Qual), PhD

India Bryce began her career as early childhood educator before taking a position as a front-line Child Safety Officer in the Investigation and Assessment Team, in the Queensland Department of Child Safety, Women and Youth. India is currently undertaking her PhD, which explores the lived experience of cumulative harm and it influence on career choice. India is now a Senior Lecturer and Academic in the School of Psychology and Wellbeing, at the University of Southern Queensland and a member of the USQ Centre of Health Research (Health and Social Justice). India’s current research explores cumulative harm, trauma informed pedagogy in higher education, trauma narratives and health, vocational behavior, transgender youth and youth justice, and separated parent’s experiences of education systems. India has published books, book chapters, and journal articles from her research including two co-edited reference books, Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management, and Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management. India has presented on topics related to her research nationally and internationally.

Research Career


  • Counselling ( 440902 )
  • Social Work ( 440900 )
  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Higher Education ( 390303 )
  • Teacher And Student Wellbeing ( 390412 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Inclusive Education ( 390407 )
  • Counselling Psychology ( 520303 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Child And Adolescent Development ( 520101 )
  • Educational Psychology ( 520102 )
  • Educational Counselling ( 390404 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Industrial And Organisational Psychology (incl. Human Factors) ( 520104 )

Child abuse and neglect
Cumulative harm
Child welfare
Trauma informed practice and pedagogy
Developmental victimology and life-course victimisation


Member of USQ Centre for Health Research (Health and Social Justice)
Member of the International Society for Prevention for Child Abuse and Neglect
National Organisation of Forensic Social Workers
Child Protection Practitioners Association Queensland
American Professional Society Abuse Children


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

Teaching


CDS3001
COU6031
COU5041


11 Years


5 Years


HDR Coordinator - School of Psychology and Wellbeing

Supervision


  • Counselling ( 440902 )
  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Higher Education ( 390303 )
  • Teacher And Student Wellbeing ( 390412 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Inclusive Education ( 390407 )
  • Counselling Psychology ( 520303 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Child And Adolescent Development ( 520101 )
  • Educational Psychology ( 520102 )
  • Educational Counselling ( 390404 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Industrial And Organisational Psychology (incl. Human Factors) ( 520104 )