Jozica Kutin

Jozica completed her PhD in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing, RMIT University (2019) and holds a Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology from Monash University. At RMIT, her research focuses on economic abuse, financial capabilities, financial wellbeing and the evaluation of financial education programs. Jozica is particularly interested in relationship-based financial wellbeing and using social marketing to prevent economic abuse. Her PhD research investigated the prevalence and lived experience of economic abuse in young adult relationships using both quantitative and qualitative research methods for which she was awarded in 2018 the RMIT HDR Prize for Research Impact. With funding from the Ecstra Foundation, Jozica is translating her PhD research, in partnership with Ylab and Today Design, into an online toolkit for young adults. Jozica’s recent publications appear in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Social Marketing and Children and Youth Services Review.