Dr Nada Ibrahim is an Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA Education Futures.
Ibrahim's background is cross-disciplinary including criminology, psychology (with an Islamic Psychology intersect), Islamic studies and education. Her expertise is in building healthy family relationships including intimate partner violence (IPV) in Muslim communities, domestic and family violence (DFV) in culturally and linguistically diverse communities and has been involved in many cross-cultural training activities with service providers on IPV, DFV and Muslim related issues.
Ibrahim won the Women's Empowerment category of the WomenAcknowledgingWomen Awards 2020 for her work in the empowerment of women particularly in the domestic and family violence space. She was inducted onto Queensland’s first Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Honour Roll where the Queensland Government recognises Queenslanders who are contributing to the prevention of DFV. Ibrahim is involved in the Not Now, Not Ever initiatives at a grass-root level in the prevention of, and recovery from DFV amongst the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Queensland Muslim community. Ibrahim was also a finalist for the International Islamic University Malaysia Alumni Community Engagement Award 2022.
Ibrahim's expertise has driven her work at the grass-root level to set up culturally and religiously appropriate services for survivors/victims of family violence, perpetrators, families afflicted with domestic violence and children that grow up in those homes. Her focus is on a preventative and recovery approach.
As a Community Advocate, Ibrahim has set up a number of signature programs to facilitate healthy family relationships within the Muslim community that utilises the Muslim worldview and underpinned with a strength-based approach. Two specific programs include:

inspiredNAFSi personal leadership program (developed in 2016 and offered multiple times in collaboration with local organisations in Queensland & Victoria with 5 trained facilitators)
Domestic and Family Violence Upskilling of Imams/Community Leaders Program (developed in 2018 - more information can be found here) delivered in Melbourne annually since 2019 (in collaboration with the Board of Imams Victoria - more information can be found here), in Queensland (in collaboration with Kuraby Mosque), and in South Australia in 2022 (in collaboration with Bosniak Islamic Centre/Muslim Women's Association SA).

Ibrahim will continue to roll out some new programs that empowers the Muslim community towards healthy family relationships that are evidence-based through community/industry collaborations.
Ibrahim was recently part of a research project collabrating with Flinders Unviersity that investigates empirically the relationship between forced marriage, partner-visa servitude,arranged marriage and family violence in the Muslim migrant communities in South Australia.
Under the Canadian Observatory for Justice Responses to Domestic Violence (along with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University) Ibrahim undertook Post-Doc research into Muslim victims/survivors past experiences with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) where she interviewed IPV survivors to identify why they report (and do not) report incidents of DFV and the barriers they encounter in accessing the CJS (article recently published). She has also done research that has documented IPV prevalence in the Queensland Muslim community and looked at risk factors that contribute towards IPV perpetration and victimisation and skewed IPV attitudes/beliefs. Ibrahim also completed a research project that explored gender roles and their origins in the Muslim community in South Australia and Queensland via focus groups.
Prior to joining UniSA, Ibrahim was working for the Centre of Domestic and Family Violence Research at CQUniversity, Queensland. She worked on the ANROWS commissioned project on Domestic and family violence protection orders in Australia (DVPO): An investigation of information sharing and enforcement that entailed surveying police, magistrates, lawyers and victim advocates about their views on enforcement of DVPOs. The project also involved interviews with domestic and family violence victims and their cross-border experiences of DVPOs. The state of knowledge paper for the project as well as the findings for this research are available including a research to practice paper.
Ibrahim has been actively involved with various stakeholders via cross-cultural training to create awareness of IPV/DFV issues related to Muslims and how to address them and is currently involved in equipping faith-based leaders on appropriate skills and knowledge on IPV/DFV related issues to make them more accessible to Muslim victims of DFV.
Ibrahim possesses both quantiative and qualitative research expertise. Her experience in research has given her the confidence to apply her skills to any new research projects that she has been engaged in. She enjoys teaching Psychology courses and engaging students in their learning journey utilising technology and innovative techniques to enhance the student experience and has received highly positive feedback on the new strategies implemented for onlilne study of courses.