Dr. India Bryce is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland and a Forensic Social Worker. Dr. India Bryce began her career as an 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. She is also a specialist consultant in the field of child maltreatment, specializing in cumulative harm. She has worked closely with government and non-government agencies in the design and implementation of family intervention, prevention, and preservation programs and has delivered training in child maltreatment and cumulative harm to a broad range of helping professionals across the forensic sector. India’s Ph.D. explored the lived experience of cumulative harm and its influence on vocation in the helping professions. India is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 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 parents’ 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.
Dr. India Bryce
