Heshani Samantha De Silva

Biographic Data

ID6635217
NAMEHeshani Samantha De Silva
GIVEN NAMESHeshani Samantha
FAMILY NAMEDe Silva
SIGNATUREDE SILVA H S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0003-3549-8630
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Designing a Peer Navigation Program Alongside Women With Lived Experience of Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence

    Open AccessZoe King, Heshani Samantha De Silva et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

  • A comparative study of family violence among Hindi-speaking and third-generation English-speaking Australian women

    Open AccessHeshani Samantha De Silva, Troy E Mcewan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2025References: 13

    High prevalence and incidence rates of family violence (FV) amongst South Asian communities have been reported internationally. Despite the recognition that culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities within Australia have additional risk factors associated with experiencing FV, Australia has limited research exploring FV amongst one of its fastest growing CALD populations, South Asians. With the Hindi-speaking community accounting f…

  • Sailing Into Uncharted Territory

    Open AccessKatie Lamb, Renee Fiolet et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2025References: 8

    The engagement of people with lived experience as co-researchers is gaining momentum across areas of physical and mental health and community services research. Reporting of co-designed research often espouses the benefits and successes, without critical reflections on how the process was experienced by people with lived experience. This paper explores the experiences of victim survivor co-researchers on a research team at an Australian universit…

  • Hidden numbers, hidden people

    Open AccessHeshani Samantha De Silva, Stephane M Shepherd et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2024References: 14

    International research suggests that migrants face additional challenges that may heighten their risk of experiencing family violence (FV). South Asians are one of Australia’s fastest growing immigrant populations—yet relatively little is known about their experiences of FV. This study sought to address this research gap by ascertaining what could be gleaned about FV experiences of Australian South Asians the Australian Bureau of Statistic’s 2016…