Graves, Lara

Lara Graves

Psychologist, Cape York; Researcher, Salvation Army
Lara is a psychologist with an interest in acquired brain injury. She has spent over a decade working in Cape York, where Indigenous women have been reported to experience violence at rates up to 45 times that of non-Indigenous women^. She recently completed a Master of Clinical Neuropsychology at Macquarie University to better understand how domestic violence can lead to brain injury. As part of her studies, she conducted a research project with the Salvation Army, to provide victim-survivors of domestic violence access to a neuropsychological assessment.

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