Research and projects
Current Projects
- Survivor experiences of law enforcement
- Elder abuse in regional, rural and remote communities
- Elder abuse and cognitive impairment
- Embedding Client Experience in family violence service design and delivery
- Rurality, domestic and family violence, and animal cruelty: Practitioner perspectives
- Building responses to technology-facilitated domestic and family violence
- Supporting secondary school teachers to address online spaces as pathways to gender-based violence for boys and men: Interventions to tackle the influence of the 'Manosphere'
- Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
COVID-19 project work
- Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
- The long shadow pandemic: Examining the intersection between long-COVID and intimate partner violence (2022)
- Family Violence and Temporary Visa Holders During COVID-19
Criminal justice responses to family violence
- Accessing the Family Violence Provision: enhancing migrant women’s safety (current)
- Australia - Brazil Partnership & Exchange (2019)
- Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews (2020)
- Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes (2024)
- Evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (2019)
- Innovative legal responses to the prevention of intimate partner homicide in the UK, US and Canada (2016)
- LGBTIQ+ victim-survivors’ experiences with Victoria’s family violence intervention order system (2022)
- The criminalisation of coercive control: A national study of victim-survivors’ views on the need for, benefits, risks and impacts of criminalisation (current)
Gender Equality and Primary Prevention
- Rapid Review and National Respectful Relationships Education Framework
- Building a foundation for collaboration on gender equality: Japanese–Australian connections (2023)
- Building a foundation for collaboration on gender equality: Korean-Australian connections (2023)
- Expert review of respectful relationship education materials (2022)
- Family violence and faith communities: engaging with faith leaders and communities in Victoria (2022)
- Gendered neighbourhoods: exploring women’s and men’s perceptions of safety (2023)
- National stocktake and gap analysis of Respectful Relationships Education (2022)
- New Parents, New Possibilities - Family Violence Prevention for LGBTIQ+ Parented Families (2019)
- Respectful Relationships Professional Learning for Early Childhood Educators (2021-2023)
- Safe and Equal @ Work program (current)
Intimate partner homicide
- Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews (2020)
- Innovative legal responses to the prevention of intimate partner homicide in the UK, US and Canada (2016)
- Securing women's lives: Preventing intimate partner homicide (2024)
National Plan
- National Plan Stakeholder Consultation Project (2021)
- National Plan Victim-Survivor Advocates Consultation Project (2021)
Patterns of family violence
- Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, use of and exposure to violence, and support needs for young people (current)
- Forced marriage as a form of Family Violence in Victoria (2023)
- Identifying economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria (2019)
- International Network Addressing Filial Violence (current)
- Investigating adolescent family violence (2018-2019)
- Supporting family reunification in child protection (2022)
- Temporary migration and family violence: An analysis of victimisation, support and vulnerability (2017)
- Who to trust: Help-seeking behaviours in education settings of children and young people experiencing family violence in Australia (2022)
- Women, disability and violence: Creating access to justice (2018)
Perpetrator interventions
- Perpetrator program attrition and participant engagement strategies (2024)
- Evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (2019)
- Evaluation of Taskforce early intervention for family violence (U-Turn) program (2021)
- Exploring practitioners' views on discussing intimate partner sexual violence in domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions (current)
- Family violence perpetrator focused screening and risk assessment: identifying current practice and future opportunities (current)
- NTV online evaluation project: Evaluation of two online Men’s Behaviour Change Program (2024)
- Perpetrator Interventions in Australia: A national study of judicial views and sentencing practice for domestic violence offenders (2020)
- Review of Minimum Standards for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (2017)
Police
- Evaluation Framework: Victoria Police Specialist Investigators Support Unit (2020)
- Evaluation of Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief – Family Violence (2020)
DFV Risk Assessment and Management
- Child and Young Person MARAM Lived Experience Engagement Project (2023)
- CRAF Review of the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework in Victoria (2016)
- Family violence perpetrator focused screening and risk assessment: identifying current practice and future opportunities (2023)
Temporary Migration and Family Violence
- Accessing the Family Violence Provision: enhancing migrant women’s safety (2020)
- Evaluation for the Northern Community Legal Centre of Abused and Abandoned: Family Violence in the Australian Indian Community (2022)
- Family Violence and Temporary Visa Holders During COVID-19 (2020)
- Migrant and Refugee Women in Australia Survey Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021)
- Preventing Coercive Control for Migrant and Refugee Women (2023)
- Temporary migration and family violence: An analysis of victimisation, support and vulnerability (2017)
- Victorian local councils and gender equality: examining the intersections for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds (2023)
Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence related work
- CRAF Review of the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework in Victoria (2016)
- Evaluation of Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief – Family Violence (2020)
- Review of the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (2020)
- Review of Minimum Standards for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (2017)
- Royal Commission into Family Violence related research
Workplace Responses to Family Violence
- Examining the impact of domestic and family violence across Australian workplaces and the need for improved workplace supports (current)
- Expert advisor role with IKEA Australia (2022)
- Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review (2021)
- Migrant and Refugee Women’s Attitudes, Experiences and Responses to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (2024)
- Safe and Equal @ Work program (current)
- The impact of workplace culture on gender equality (current)
- Workplace sexual harassment: A national study to inform new prevention and early intervention strategies (2022-2023)