Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research director Heather Nancarrow will be making a presentation – “Intimate partner abuse of women in the Bowen Basin and Mackay region of central Queensland” – in Rockhampton today on the findings of the quantitative research stemming from interviews with over 500 women.

While the official paper is not yet available, ABC Online has reported that women with partners in the Bowen Basin's mining industry are up to 3.5 times more likely to suffer from controlling and possessive behaviour from their partner.

The findings reportedly indicate that women have a higher incidence of social psychological abuse if they have a partner in the mining industry.

“Women who are partnered to a man working in the mining industry were nearly two times more likely than other women to experience social psychological abuse. So that's the controlling, possessive jealousy behaviour," Nancarrow said.

“But if the women were living in Mackay they reported a rate of violence three-and-a-half times higher than women in Mackay not partnered to a man in the mining industry."

The presentation in Rockhampton will be made at the Ginger Mule Tapas Bar from 6pm as part of the university’s Research Unplugged sessions.