Trauma-Informed Practice Lab

Creating Trauma-Informed Learning Communities

The Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) Lab, based within the School of Education at the University of Tasmania, brings together researchers, students, educators, professionals, and community partners who are committed to creating learning communities where people can learn, belong, and thrive.

Our work is grounded in the understanding that experiences of trauma, adversity, violence, and chronic stress can influence learning, relationships, wellbeing, participation, and achievement across the lifespan. We explore how trauma-informed, healing-centred, and trauma-transformative approaches can strengthen educational, professional, and community settings, creating conditions that support both individual and collective flourishing.

We recognise the strengths, resilience, knowledge, and cultural wealth that exist within communities and acknowledge the importance of learning from diverse ways of knowing, being, and doing.

We are committed to ongoing learning from First Nations peoples, knowledges, and perspectives on wellbeing, education, community, and healing. We approach this work with humility, recognising that meaningful engagement requires listening, relationship-building, reflection, and a commitment to continual learning.

The TIP Lab serves as a hub for research, education, partnership, and knowledge exchange. Through our work, we seek to generate and share evidence that supports more responsive, equitable, and inclusive systems, while contributing to positive change within the University of Tasmania, across Tasmania, and beyond.

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Our work

The TIP Lab undertakes research, education, and partnership projects that seek to improve understanding of trauma, adversity, healing, and wellbeing across a range of settings.

We are particularly interested in how trauma-informed, healing-centred, and trauma-transformative approaches can strengthen learning, teaching, leadership, wellbeing, organisational culture, and professional practice.

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Meaningful change happens through collaboration. The TIP Lab works with researchers, educators, students, practitioners, organisations, and communities to develop research, learning, and engagement opportunities that contribute to more responsive and equitable systems.

We aim to foster partnerships that are collaborative, respectful, and mutually beneficial. Our work is guided by curiosity, reflection, and a commitment to learning alongside the communities, organisations, and professionals with whom we work.

We welcome opportunities to collaborate on:

• Research projects and grant applications
• Evaluation and impact studies
• Professional learning and workforce development
• Student learning and placement initiatives
• Knowledge translation and resource development
• Community-engaged and co-designed research
• Organisational and systems change initiatives

Whether you are exploring a research idea, seeking a research partner, interested in professional learning, or looking to connect with others working in this space, we would welcome a conversation.