Isobel Montgomery

Isobel Montgomery is currently a Senior Policy Officer, working within the Domestic and Family Violence Policy Team at Office for Women SA. She formally worked in No to Violence’s national Policy and Research team, advocating to government on all matters related to working with family, domestic and sexual violence perpetrators and providing research support for several partnered projects on intimate partner sexual violence, intimate partner violence among older people and technology-facilitated abuse. Isobel has also previously worked for the South Australian Council of Social Service through providing research support on the Playford 10 program evaluation and coordinating the 2020 Here for SA campaign, and was formerly the Communications and Marketing Engagement Officer at Women’s Safety Service SA.

Isobel completed her MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford in 2021,  after being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2019. They are an intersectional feminist and a passionate advocate for the eradication of gender-based violence in all its forms, including within our workplaces, institutions and community settings.