Preventing Intimate Partner Abuse

I have been working in the area of sexual assault and intimate partner abuse for more than 25 years, and I recently completed my PhD focused on the earliest warning signs of intimate partner abuse. Links to articles and presentations that I have developed related to these topics are shared below.

• Nunn, L. M., Winter, R., Frey, R., & Asquith, N. L. (2023). The role of the socialisation of women in recognising and responding to the earliest warning signs of intimate partner abuse. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (published online ahead of print 2023). (READ)

• Lea Nunn, a psychologist and PhD Candidate, Jess Hill, journalist and educator and the author of ‘See What You Made Me Do’ and Katherine Berney, the Executive Director of the National Women’s Safety Alliance & a survivor of intimate partner violence joined ABC Radio Morning’s Leon Compton in the studio to explore some solutions to Intimate Partner Abuse. (LISTEN)

• A multi-layered approach to the prevention of violence against women: Comments in response to Rethinking Primary Prevention (Leanne Nunn, Psychologist, 29^th April 2024) (READ)

• Deconstructing the Earliest Warning Signs of Intimate Partner Abuse: Why are the Earliest Warning Signs So Hard to See? (Dr Lea Nunn, November 2023, StopDV Conference Presentation Transcript, Hobart TAS) (READ)

• A Framework of Intimate Partner Abuse Grooming and the Link to the Tremor (Dr Lea Nunn, November 2024, StopDV Conference Presentation Transcript, Adelaide SA) (READ)

• The IPA Grooming Framework Handout (Lea Nunn, 2025)

• The IPA Assessment Tool (Lea Nunn, 2025)