Tian Xia obtained her BA in Communication and Master of Management Sciences in Social Security from Beijing Normal University in China. Before beginning her Ph.D. program, Tian was a co-facilitator of a 24- hour helpline for battered women and worked for a nonprofit legal aid agency in China, with over seven years of policy advocacy, practitioners training, and research experience in the field of gender-based violence prevention and intervention. She has spent most of her career researching how judicial practice responds to violence in intimate relationships, the development of anti-domestic violence social organizations in China, and the help-seeking behaviors of battered women in different generations. With her partners, she has completed a series of monitoring reports on implementing the Chinese Anti-Domestic Violence Law. In the future, she hopes to grasp quantitative research methods better, learn more about the causes of abusive behavior in intimate relationships，and develop more effective batterer intervention programs.