Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist
Family Violence Researcher
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[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

I'm hopeful that future research can priortise migrant and ethnic minority populations in Australia. (4/4)

#familyviolence #SouthAsian #southasianaustralian #Australia

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

New paper alert! 🚨

Heshani S. De Silva, Troy E. McEwan & Stephane M. Shepherd (2025) A comparative study of family violence among Hindi-speaking and third-generation English-speaking Australian women. J Pop Research 42(1) DOI: https://t.co/a5DLffVKK0
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[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

This paper is one of three from my PhD, which collectively highlights Australia’s limited evidence base on family violence among one of its fastest-growing migrant populations: South Asian Australians. (3/4)

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

Please follow the link to fill out a survey (approx 15 minutes): https://t.co/LXYXReszWX
#familyviolence #domesticviolence #domesticabuse #sexualviolence #violenceagainstwomen #genderbasedviolence #researchers #livedexperience

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Are you a researcher within the field of family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV)? Please consider sharing this post with your colleagues.
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[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

The team @safer_families & I are interested to hear from FDSV researchers who have lived experience (whether known to their colleagues or not). We want to understand their needs as a lived experience researcher and whether a lived experience collective would be useful. (2/3)

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@fernandez_s_j Congratulations! 🎉

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

My first publication is out - have a read if you're intersted :) https://t.co/9LcmMYHtSD
@ItsArunRA @LekhnathPathak @M_R_Hashan @DrHossainMM @PoojaSawrikar @hifza_ahmed @Tianyi123Feng

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

I'm excited to share that yesterday I submitted my clinical psychology PhD thesis on "Family Violence Amongst South Asian Australians"!

Can I say #PhDone -ish? #phdlife

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@LekhnathPathak Yes I did :)

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

Dr Katie Lamb & I want to hear from family and/or sexual violence researchers with #livedexperience. What are your needs & would a research collective would be useful to you ? #familyviolence #domesticviolence #sexualviolence #researchers #academic #DomesticAbuse

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
I'm excited to share my first publication from my #PhD #research!
This study examined police-reported #familyviolence among South Asian born Australians and Australian born Australians.
It's #openaccess so have a read for free :)
https://t.co/SWVPu02jUj

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@ItsArunRA Thanks Arun! I've submitted a PhD by publication, so I'm awaiting the responses from the relevant journals :) But excited for all future possibilities !

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@sarahrgauci Thank you! :)

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@farooqnaeem7 @CAMHnews @DrKhan_do @sfarooqlrh @Ayub1985 @MHCC_ @BABCP @BABCP_Equality @ABCTNOW @pactpakistan @BeckInstitute How wonderful! Excited to look into this

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

Off the back of a successful first show we are running Behind Closed Doors again (TWICE) during the '16 Days of Activism' against gendered violence campaign!
Link to more information and tickets: https://t.co/w9hISCzpGC

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@Darcy_Coulter @UniMelb @MelbInstUOM This is such an amazing accomplishment! Well done Darcy!!

[MAEVe @MAEVe_Unimelb]

Join us on the 17th of October 1-2pm for our next MAEVe seminar:
New sexual offence & coercive control laws in VIC and NSW, presented by @HDouglasLaw & @JWangmann

https://t.co/2nGAFIbMw2

[Heshani Samantha De Silva (she/her) @HeshaniD]

@deBoer_ko @gemmasharp11 Such a huge achievement !!! Congratulations Kat.

Tots proud (please make the below face when sharing the news F2F)