Dr. Gartland was awarded her Professional Doctorate of Health Psychology, at Swinburne University of Technology in 2009, after completing a BSc (Psych) at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research was at the forefront of international efforts to measure resilience in adolescents. Dr. Gartland is a postdoctoral research fellow at Intergenerational Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She co-leads a research program called Strengthening Families. Her research focus is women's and children’s health, and in particular, resilience in vulnerable populations. Her research over the last 3 years has focused on the impact of intimate partner violence on maternal health and child outcomes. She has a particular focus on social adversity and building the evidence needed to better support vulnerable families, including families experiencing violence. She is currently working with Aboriginal, refugee background communities and families who have experienced violence to measure and describe child resilience.