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Assistant Professor

Ingrid Mary Wilson

HSS Culture Advocate
Employee Wellness Committee
Year 1 Coordinator (Dietetics Programme)
Member Organizing Committee, SIT Applied Learning Conference 2021
Doctor of Philosophy (Women's Health), La Trobe University, Australia
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Health and Social Sciences
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Biography

Dr Ingrid WILSON is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, Health and Social Sciences Cluster and Adjunct Research Fellow for La Trobe University. She has a PhD in Mother and Child Health from La Trobe University, a first class Honours degree in Criminology from the University of Melbourne, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the UK.

Dr Wilson is a social researcher with a strong interest in gender issues, preventing gender-based violence and improving women’s health. Her research skills include undertaking systematic reviews and conducting qualitative research, and exploring sensitive issues with vulnerable groups in line with international best practice (WHO guidance). Her doctoral thesis, titled Fearing the “changed” man: Women’s experience of alcohol-related intimate partner violence. A constructivist grounded theory study provided the first in-depth insight into the dynamics of partner drinking and violence, and the complexity of women's relationships with a violent drinker. 

Prior to joining SIT, Ingrid was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at La Trobe University where she also established and co-ordinated ReGeN: Reducing Gender-based Violence Network www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc/regen. In addition to research, Ingrid has extensive experience in policy development in the Australian Federal and State government and the not-for-profit sector on issues such as alcohol control, information privacy and human rights. She has also worked in a compliance capacity implementing privacy law within local government in the United Kingdom. Ingrid has a strong interest in governance in the not-for-profit sector and has held several board positions on women’s community organisations in Australia and UK.

SIT Appointments

  • Year 1 Coordinator (Dietetics Programme)
    – Present
  • Member Organizing Committee, SIT Applied Learning Conference 2021
    – Present
  • Employee Wellness Committee
    – Present
  • HSS Culture Advocate
    – Present
  • Chief Interviewer of Allied Health Admissions Interview 2021
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  • Member Scientific Committee, SIT Applied Learning Conference 2020
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  • Deputy Chief Interviewer of Allied Health Admissions Interview 2020
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Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Women's Health)
    La Trobe University , Australia
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Law
    The University of Law, London , United Kingdom
  • Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours in Criminology)
    University of Melbourne , Australia

Achievements

  • Nomination SIT Teaching Excellence Award AY2018-19
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  • 3MT (Three Minute thesis competition) La Trobe University Final, Winner of People's Choice Award (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSpduQLlweI)
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  • Victorian Government Scholarship - Women's Board Leadership Program
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  • Australian Rechabite Foundation PhD Scholarship
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  • Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, Invited expert witness on alcohol and drugs
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  • Inaugural Judith Lumley Scholarship
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  • Australian Postgraduate Award
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Professional Certification

  • Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
    Australian Institute of Company Directors

Professional Memberships

  • Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International
    – Present
  • Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol
    – Present

Corporate Experience

  • International Editorial Board, Journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
    Present
  • Chair, Board of Governance, WIRE Women's Information (www.wire.org.au)
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Research Interests

  • Intimate partner violence; risk factors; alcohol use; women's health; resilient relationships; qualitative research methods

    Exploring the relationship between alcohol use and intimate partner violence from a gendered perspective. Understanding the impact of addiction on spouses and family members. Women's health and quality of intimate relationships over the lifecourse.

Current Projects

  • Understanding women's decision-making post-separation from an abusive spouse
    – Present

    Principal investigator working in collaboration with Care Corner Project StART to explore women's decision-making during the complex post-separation period after leaving an abusive relationship.

     

  • Strengthening responses to foreign spouses experiencing family violence
    – Present

    SIT (non-STEM) Ignition Grant

    Principal Investigator leading team in collaboration with the Family Services Division of Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities. Using participatory methods such as photovoice and Appreciative Inquiry, this project aims to develop culturally sensitive practice-based guidance responding to the complexity of transnational families experiencing family violence.

     

  • Exploring family conflict and violence and the role of alcohol as a risk factor in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic
    – Present
    • SIT Seed Grant funded project
    • Co-PI Bhing Leet TAN
    • Aim: To explore the impact of COVID-19 on family conflict and family violence in Singapore, with specific attention to the role of alcohol and other risk factors
  • Health of migrant domestic workers: A scoping review
    – Present

    international team comprising: Sonia Reisenhofer, La Trobe University (Project lead); Lisa McKenna, School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University; Ferry Efendi, Faculty of Nursing, Airlangga University, Indonesia; Graeme Smith, Edinburgh Napier University; Janet Wong, School of Nursing, Hong Kong University; Ken Ho, School of Nursing, Tung Wah College, Hong Kong

    • Project aim: To explore what is known about the health and wellbeing of domestic migrant workers in a sample of countries
  • Analysis of UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific
    – Present

    Multidisciplinary team led by Prof Angela Taft (Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University), Dr Anne-Marie Laslett and Dr Sandra Kuntsche (Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University), Dr Emma Fulu (The Equality Institute) and Dr Kate Graham (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario)

    • Analysis of the intersection between men's alcohol use, gendered attitudes and other risk factors associated with intimate partner violence
    • Analysis of the impact of fathers' alcohol use and intimate partner violence on the experience of fathering
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Journal Papers

  • Laslett, A.-M., Kuntsche, S., Wilson, I. M., Taft, A., Fulu, E., Jewkes, R., & Graham, K. (2022) The relationship between fathers' heavy episodic drinking and fathering involvement in five Asia-Pacific countries: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14955 

  • Allen-Leap, M., Hooker, L., Wild, K., Wilson, I. M., Pokharel, B., & Taft, A. (2022) Seeking Help From Primary Health-Care Providers in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review of the Experiences of Migrant and Refugee Survivors of Domestic Violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221137664 

  • Wilson, I. M., Lightowlers, C., & Bryant, L. (2022) Home drinking during and post-COVID-19: Why the silence on domestic violence? Drug and Alcohol Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13572 

  • Ho, K. H. M., Wilson, I. M., Wong, J. Y.-H., McKenna, L., Reisenhofer, S., Efendi, F., & Smith, G. D. (2022) Overlooked by nurses: A scoping review on health stressors, problems and coping of migrant domestic workers. Nursing Open, 00,1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1391 

  • Graham, K., Bernards, S., Laslett, A-M, Gmel, G., Kuntsche, S., Wilsnack, S., Bloomfield, K., Grittner, U., Taft, A., Wilson, I., & Wells, S. (2021). Children, parental alcohol consumption and intimate partner violence: A multi-country analysis by perpetration versus victimization and sex. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36(11-12): 5608-5634. Epub 17 Oct 2018. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30328365/ 

  • Laslett, A.-M., Graham, K., Wilson, I. M., Kuntsche, S., Fulu, E., Jewkes, R., & Taft, A. (2021). Does drinking modify the relationship between men’s gender-inequitable attitudes and their perpetration of intimate partner violence? A meta-analysis of surveys of men from seven countries in the Asia Pacific region. Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15485 

  • Wilson, I.M., Graham, K., Laslett, A-M., Taft, A. (2020) Relationship trajectories of women experiencing alcohol-related intimate partner violence: A grounded-theory analysis of women's voices. Social Science and Medicine, 264, 113307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113307  

  • Taft, A., Wilson, I., Laslett, A-M., Kuntsche, S. (2019) Pathways to responding and preventing alcohol-related violence against women: why a gendered approach matters. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health; 43(6):516-518. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12943.  Epub 2019 Nov 27.

  • Wilson, I.M., Eurenius, E., Lindkvist, M., Edin, K., Edvardsson, K. (2019) Is there an association between pregnant women's experience of violence and their partner's drinking? A Swedish population-based study. Midwifery, Volume 69, February 2019, Pages 84-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2018.10.019 

  • Stanesby, O., Callinan, S., Graham, K., Wilson, I. M., Greenfield, T. K., Wilsnack, S. C., Hettige, S., Hanh, Hoang Thi My., Siengsounthone, L., Waleewong, O., Laslett, A.-M. (2018). Harm from Known Others' Drinking by Relationship Proximity to the Harmful Drinker and Gender: A Meta-Analysis Across 10 Countries. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 42(9): 1693-1703. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13828 

  • Wilson, IM., Graham, K., & Taft, A. (2017). Living the cycle of drinking and violence: A qualitative study of women's experience of alcohol-related intimate partner violence. Drug and Alcohol Review, Special Issue: Intimate partner violence and substance misuse, 36(1), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12405 

  • Graham, K., Wilson, I., & Taft, A. (2017). The broader context of preventing alcohol-related intimate partner violence. Drug and Alcohol Review, Special Issue: Intimate partner violence and substance misuse, 36(1), 10-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12422 

  • Wilson, IM., Graham, K., & Taft, A. (2014). Alcohol interventions, alcohol policy and intimate partner violence: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 881. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-881 

  • Wilson, I. M., Willoughby, B., Tanyos, A., Graham, K., Walker, M., Laslett, A.-M., & Ramsoomar, L. (2024). A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking: the need for responding with a gendered lens. Global Health Action, 17(1), 2341522. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2024.2341522 

  • Karriker-Jaffe, K. J., Blackburn, N., Graham, K., Walker, M. J., Room, R., Wilson, I. M., Waleewong, O., Gilchrist, G., Ramsoomar, L., & Laslett, A.-M. (2023). Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward. International Journal of Drug Policy, 119, 104148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104148 
     

  • Pidd, D., Newton, M., Wilson, I., & East, C. (2023). Optimising maternity care for a subsequent pregnancy after a psychologically traumatic birth: A scoping review. Women and Birth, 36(5), e471-e480. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2023.03.006 
     

Conferences

  • Wilson, I.M., Livingston, M. Kuntsche, S., Laslett., A-M., Taft, A., and Cooklin, A. (2018, May). The relationship between parental drinking and relationship violence: A secondary data analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. 44th Annual Meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society. Chiang Mai, Thailand. May 31.

  • Wilson, I.M. (2017, October) Fearing the "changed" man: Understanding women's experience of alcohol-related intimate partner violence. Global Alcohol Policy Conference. Melbourne. October 6.

  • Taft, A., Temple, J., Wilson, I.M., and Gilchrist, G. (2017, September) The complex relationship between men's use of alcohol and other drugs and their violence towards female partners: Implications for healthcare responses (symposium). Futures Without Violence, National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence, San Francisco, US. September 28.

  • Taft, A., Garcia-Moreno, C., Fulu, E., Wilson, I.M., Laslett, A-M., and Room, R. (2017, April)  Unhappy Hours: Tackling alcohol-related domestic violence (panel session). 15th World Congress on Public Health. Melbourne. April 4.

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Teaching Modules

Diagnostic Radiography, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Health Sciences
  • HSC1005 - Research - Critical Appraisal of Literature
  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics

Occupational Therapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Health Sciences
  • HSC1005 - Research - Critical Appraisal of Literature
  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics
  • OTY4005 - Honours Thesis

Physiotherapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Health Sciences
  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives

Radiation Therapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Health Sciences
  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives
  • HSC1005 - Research - Critical Appraisal of Literature
  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics

Dietetics and Nutrition, BSc (Hons)

  • DTN1003 - Individual and Environmental Influences on Eating Behaviours
  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives

Diagnostic Radiography, BSc

  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives

Nursing, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives
  • NUR4801 - Honours Thesis
  • NUR3008 - Health and Social Policy

Occupational Therapy, BSc

  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives

Speech and Language Therapy, BSc (Hons)

  • HSC1006 - Health Systems - Singapore's Perspectives

Past

  • HSC1004 - Psychological and Sociological Perspectives for Health Sciences (1561)
  • HSC2002 - Research - Methods and Statistics (1601)
  • SOCS101 - Understanding the Social: Theories and Themes (1281)
  • SOCS254 - Punishment, Penality and Prisons: Critical Debates (1346)
  • SOCS377 - Cybercrime In A Connected World (1396)
  • SOCS308 - Gender and Crime (1366)
  • SOCS305 - Social Policy Project: Work-based Learning (1361)
  • SOCS301 - Dissertation
  • SOCS248 - Social Research Methods 2 (1341)
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