Bianca Calabria is currently working with a team of researchers, drug and alcohol workers and Aboriginal Health Workers to develop and evaluate a family-based intervention to reduce alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal Australians. This work will form Bianca’s doctoral thesis. Bianca has previous research experience focused on personal relationships; her honours thesis, completed as part of her honours degree of a Bachelor of Psychology in 2007 at Macquarie University, looked at emotional and behavioural responses to violations of friendship rules. Bianca has also worked on a number of drug and alcohol related research projects including the Global Burden of Disease and the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study.