Projects & Partnerships
Our research focuses on gender-based violence prevention and response. It is evidence-based, interdisciplinary, applied, practical, collaborative and delivers impact for policymakers, institutions and the community. The Hub’s research is focused around six strategic themes and the following are a few examples of our research initiatives.
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TECHNOLOGY
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| Project Name | About the Project | Project Team |
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Building Responses to Technology-facilitated Domestic and Family Violence | This project aims to investigate one of Australia’s most pressing social problems: domestic violence and the emerging use of digital technology to enact and escalate abuse and stalking. | Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Bridget Harris |
| Evaluation of Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief – Family Violence | The MGFVPC has been commissioned by Victoria Police to conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief - Family Violence. | Investigators: Professor Jude McCulloch, Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor |
Targeting Technology-facilitated Abuse Perpetration and Enhancing Accountability | This project targets men who have perpetrated TFA against women and children in the context of family violence through engagement with the perpetrator intervention sector. | Project director: Associate Professor Bridget Harris |
Australian Users' Experiences with Control Features on Social Media Services and Dating Platforms | This Report details the findings of a study that examined Australians’ knowledge, use and perceptions of the effectiveness of user control features (e.g., safety tools) on social media services and online dating apps. | Project directors: Professor Asher Flynn |
| Responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Australia–Korea Partnership | This project aims to launch the inaugural Australia-Korea knowledge exchange focused on a pressing issue endangering women’s safety, security and freedoms: technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). | Project director: Dr Hyein Ellen Cho Principal Chief Investigator, Intercultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Key researcher, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre ellen.cho@monash.edu |
| Summarising the evidence: exploring what we know about drivers of violence against women, family violence and other forms of gendered violence starts from the position that frameworks and actions used to prevent men’s violence against women are also effective in helping prevent other forms of family and gendered violence. | Project directors: AIFS (Australian Institute of Family Studies) Project contact: Bridget Harris | |
Online Violence Against Women and Girls: Perpetration and International Perspectives | This project sought to create an evidenced-based, well-referenced literature review, utilising existing knowledge, research, and analysis on the topic of online violence against women and girls. | Project directors: Assoc. Professor Bridget Harris and Jessica Woolley |
| The project broke new ground by generating much-needed empirical research on the use, efficacy, perceived benefits and limitations of police BWC footage in response to DFV, including its evidentiary use in court proceedings and State responses, for example, in Child Protection and family law matters. | Project directors: Associate Professor Mary Iliadis Project team: Associate Professor Bridget Harris |
GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION
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| Project Name | About the Project | Project Team |
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| This project brings together scholars, practitioners and educators to critically examine and address the influence and impact of the Manosphere upon young boys’ and men’s practices of masculinity that are harmful to women, girls and gender diverse people. | Project team: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Dr Sarah McCook, Dr Stephanie Wescott, Professor Steven Roberts, Dr Alex Phelan | |
Rapid Review and National Respectful Relationships Education Framework | In the October 2022 Federal Budget, the Australian Government announced a $77.6 million investment over five years from 2023-24 to support schools to provide evidence-based, age-appropriate consent and respectful relationships education (CRRE) to help prevent gender-based violence and support young people to live lives free from violence. | Chief Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Dr Emily Berger, Dr Claire Stonehouse, Associate Profession Kelly-Ann Allen, Emeritus Associate Professor Debbie Ollis, Associate Professor Bridget Harris, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Dr Keane Wheeler, Dr Karen Lambert, Associate Professor Fida Sanjakdar, and Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
National Stocktake and Gap Analysis of Respectful Relationships Education | Strengthening positive, equal and respectful relationships between school students through Respectful Relationships Education (RRE) is a feature of past and present national policies to address violence against women and children. | Chief Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Emeritus Associate Professor Debbie Ollis, Dr Kelly-Ann Allen, Associate Professor Asher Flynn and Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
Expert Review of Respectful Relationship Education Materials | The Department of Education, Skills and Employment has commissioned Monash University to undertake an expert review of respectful relationships education materials. | Chief Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Associate Professor Asher Flynn and Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
Respectful Relationships Professional Learning for Early Childhood Educators | The Faculty of Education was contracted by the Victorian Department of Education and Training in 2018 to deliver a professional learning package designed for early childhood educators across the State. | Investigators: Marie Hammer (Primary Chief Investigator), Iris Duhn, Stella Laletas, Liang Li, Gloria Quinones Goytortua, Robyn Babaeff, Jo Hansen Lauren Armstrong, Naomi Pfitzner, and Glykeria Fragkiadaki |
| Local councils provide critical support and services to communities, and also serve as important employers. This project will provide insight into the intention and implementation of gender equality commitments in local councils, with a focus on how those commitments target and impact migrant and refugee women as employees. | Investigators: Dr Hyein Cho and Professor Marie Segrave | |
Building a Foundation for Collaboration on Gender Equality: Korean-Australian Connections | This project will bring together 13 researchers and advocates on gender in/equality as part of a larger partnership project seeking to build a foundation of knowledge exchange and collaboration between South Korea and Australia through the development of a collaborative research network in gender equality research, education, and practice. | Chief Investigators: Dr Hyein Ellen Cho, Marie Segrave, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Siru Tan and Stefani Vasil |
| Gendered neighbourhoods: exploring women’s and men’s perceptions of safety | Domestic and family violence (DFV) has a significant impact on the lives of the women who experience it. Also, DFV spatially clusters in particular neighbourhoods. In neighbourhoods with higher levels of DFV, there is often lower equality between women and men, as areas are characterised by patriarchal social systems that reduce all women’s power. | Principal Investigator: Dr Chloe Keel |
| The impact of workplace culture on gender equality | The growing evidence-base in relation to workplace gender equality has to date, focused primarily on interventions targeting formal gender equality indicators, such as pay equity, gender composition of all levels of the workforce. An area that has been less explored is the impact of the workplace culture in which these interventions are applied. | Chief Investigators: Dr Rebecca Stewart and Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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| Project Name | About the Project | Project Team |
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| The Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department has commissioned the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre together with lived experience advocates and colleagues from James Cook and Curtin universities to undertake national consultations with people with lived experience of domestic, family and sexual violence who have sought assistance from or had interactions with police. | Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Bridget Harris, Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Associate Professor Emily Berger, Professor Kyllie Cripps, Kym Valentine, Lily, Associate Professor Sean Cowlishaw, Associate Professor Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor Hannah McGlade, Dr Vinnitta Mosby | |
Victims’ Views on the Sentencing of Domestic Violence Offences in Queensland | In 2016 a legislative amendment was introduced in Queensland requiring judicial officers to treat domestic violence offences as an aggravating factor on sentence. This means an offence must be treated as being more serious when it occurs in the context of domestic and family violence and that the perpetrator may receive a harsher sentence | Project director: Dr Jasmine McGowan |
| Victoria Police which Family Violence Liaison Officers (FVLOs) are located at police stations throughout Victoria and are responsible for managing instances of family violence and coordinating referrals for victim-survivors. | Project directors: Associate Professor Emily Berger (Faculty of Education) and Dr Jasmine McGowan (MGFVPC) | |
Accessing the Family Violence Provision: Enhancing Migrant Women’s Safety | Existing evidence indicates that migration status, and particularly temporary migration status, may exacerbate the risk of family and domestic violence. Yet, there is a research gap pertaining to women who experience family and domestic violence from migrant and refugee backgrounds, and this gap is pronounced for women in Australia on temporary visas. | Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Marie Segrave and Professor JaneMaree Maher |
| The Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre was contracted by the Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board (the Board) to prepare an expert report and review of four cases of female-perpetrated intimate partner homicide in March 2020 | Investigators: Associate Professor Silke Meyer (project lead) and Dr Jasmine McGowan | |
| In 2014 family violence was declared a national emergency in Australia. In the years since there has been extensive law reform activity. Domestic violence disclosure schemes have emerged within this context as a policy option that may improve safety outcomes for victims. | Investigators: Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Professor Sandra Walklate, and Dr Ellen Reeves | |
Evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria | The MGFVPC was contracted in 2019 by the Magistrates' Court of Victoria (MCV) to conduct an evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative (FTI) in the MCV. MCV had been implementing a fast tracking initiative across multiple court locations since 2014 at that time. The aim of the fast tracking initiative was to have all criminal proceedings arising out of family violence incidents finalised within 16 weeks of entering the Court. | Investigators: Associate Professor Silke Meyer, Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Dr Tess Bartlett, Professor Jude McCulloch, Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Zarina Vakhitova, Professor Kerry O'Brien, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Jasmine McGowan |
Innovative Legal Responses to the Prevention of Intimate Partner Homicide in the UK, US and Canada | This project was part of a 2015 Churchill Fellowship awarded to Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon to investigate the effectiveness of innovative and recently introduced legal responses to intimate homicide in the UK, USA and Canada. The project examined the merits of the offence of coercive control in England and the proposed offence of domestic abuse in Scotland, the New York integrated domestic violence court model and domestic violence death review committees internationally. | Investigator: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
LGBTIQA+ Victim-survivors’ Experiences with Victoria’s Family Violence Intervention Order System | This project, in partnership with the LGBTIQ Legal Service, seeks to better understand the ways in which LGBTIQA+ Victorians interact with and experience the family violence intervention order (FVIO) system. | Project contact: Dr Ellen Reeves |
| This project will be the first to conduct a national examination of victim/survivor views on the benefits, risks and impacts of the criminalisation of coercive control. | Investigators: Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor Sandra Walklate, Associate Professor Silke Meyer and Ellen Reeves | |
Family violence and faith communities: engaging with faith leaders and communities in Victoria | This research will apply a Victorian-specific lens to examine how the Victorian state government, institutions and communities have engaged with faith leaders from both established and emerging migration and refugee communities. | Principal Investigator: Hyein Ellen Cho |
Securing women's lives: Preventing intimate partner homicide | The project aims to better understand potential points of intervention prior to women being killed, and to use this knowledge to prevent future such homicides. | Chief Investigators: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, JaneMaree Maher, Sandra Walklate, Rebecca Buys, and Jude McCulloch |
Evaluation Framework: Victoria Police Specialist Investigators Support Unit | The MGFVPC has been commissioned by Victoria Police (VP) Family Violence Command (FVC) to examine the development and implementation of the Specialist Investigators Support Unit (SISU)’s psychological services designed to support positive outcomes for the mental health and wellbeing of VP employees who work on themes of family violence, sexual offending and child abuse and are located in FVIUs, SOCITs and a range of related areas. | Investigators: Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Carlyn Muir, Dr Helen McKernan, Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Professor Jude McCulloch, Associate Professor Marie Segrave, Dr Silke Meyer, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Associate Professor Leanne Weber |
| Queensland Police Training -Prevention, Disruption, Investigation of and Response to Domestic and Family Violence | In April and May 2022, Deputy Coroner Jane Bentley held coronial inquest proceedings into the deaths of Doreen Langham and Gary Hely; and Hannah Clarke, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey Baxter and Rowan Baxter. A focal point of those inquests involved the training provided to the Queensland Police Service (QPS) members in the prevention, disruption, investigation of and response to domestic and family violence (DFV). | Project directors: Bridget Harris |
| Forced Marriage as a Form of Family Violence in Victoria | This will be the first study in Australia to examine a family violence framework and response to forced marriage. It will be undertaken in Victoria where in 2018, the Victorian Parliament, following recommendations from the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, passed an amendment to Section 6 of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic), to include forced marriage as a statutory example of family violence. | Principal Investigator: Dr Siru Tan |
TRAUMA, RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY
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| Project Name | About the Project | Project Team |
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| Elder Abuse and Cognitive Impairment | The Attorney-General’s Department has commissioned a research project on elder abuse and cognitive impairment, led by the Monash University in collaboration with Edith Cowan and Sunshine Coast universities. This study will improve the understanding of the unique drivers, experiences and responses to abuse of older people with cognitive impairment. | Project directors: Dr Kate Burns |
| This independent evaluation provides analysis and recommendations on the appropriateness, implementation, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and outcomes of the Supporting Recovery Pilot (SRP) in six Primary Health Network (PHN) regions (Gippsland, Hunter New England and Central Coast, South Western Sydney, Brisbane South, Northern Territory and Country Western Australia). | Project directors: Associate Professor Emily Berger CI, Monash University, Faculty of Education emily.berger@monash.edu Associate Professor Sean Cowlishaw CI, Monash University, School of Psychological Sciences sean.cowlishaw@monash.ed | |
| The Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department has commissioned the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre together with colleagues from Edith Cowan and Sunshine Coast universities and the Older Person Advocacy Network (OPAN) to undertake a national research project on elder abuse in regional, rural and remote communities. | Project directors: Associate Professor Bridget Harris, Dr Naomi Pfitzner | |
Rurality, domestic and family violence, and animal cruelty: Practitioner perspectives | Recognition of the concurrence of animal abuse and other forms of domestic and family violence is growing, but this is an under-researched topic, and internationally, there is very little scholarship on the relationship between animal cruelty and domestic and family violence. | Investigators: A/Prof Bridget Harris, Dr Chloe Keel and A/Prof Anna Eriksson. |
| Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic | In 2019 the United Nations reported that ‘home’ is the most dangerous place for women and children. With more people staying at home to reduce the community spread of COVID-19, there is a greater risk of violence against women and children | Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor Jacqui True, Dr Jasmine McGowan |
| Despite well-established evidence of the increased risk of intimate partner violence during the first two years of the pandemic, to date there has been no research globally that examines how victim-survivors’ experiences of long COVID will uniquely impact their safety and support needs. This project will address this critical gap in current knowledge. | Project team: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Naomi Pfitzner, Jasmine McGowan, Benjamin Scott | |
| Monash University and the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre are leading research in relation to the intersection of migration law and police, and family violence. Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre has led major research on temporary migration and family violence in Victoria | Chief Investigator and research contact: Associate Professor Marie Segrave | |
| The Safe and Equal @ Work program will inform and develop workforce pathways, training supports and job creation for family violence victim-survivors. We will enhance safety, help address women’s financial insecurity and gender inequalities in the workplace and produce economic benefits through greater workforce participation. | Core Team: Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon | |
| There is increasing recognition across Australia and internationally of the significant harms and impacts of adolescent family violence (AFV). | Principle Chief Investigator: Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon | |
| Forced marriage as a form of Family Violence in Victoria | This will be the first study in Australia to examine a family violence framework and response to forced marriage. It will be undertaken in Victoria where in 2018, the Victorian Parliament, following recommendations from the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, passed an amendment to Section 6 of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic), to include forced marriage as a statutory example of family violence. | Principal Investigator: Dr Siru Tan |
| Identifying economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria | Monash GFV researchers along with project partner and disability advocate Tricia Malowney OAM, were the recipients of a grant from the Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust (VWBT). The grant was awarded though the VWBT Small Grants program and funded the development of a fully accessible toolkit designed to assist service providers and people experiencing family violence identify economic abuse for Victorian women with disability. | Investigators: Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Tricia Malowney and Kate Thomas |
| Investigating adolescent family violence | In the last five years, the findings of state-based inquiries and academic research have revealed a lack of integrated service and justice responses to adolescent family violence. Adolescent family violence refers to violence perpetrated by young people against family members, including physical, emotional, psychological, verbal, financial and/or sexual abuse by a child or adolescent against their parent, carer, sibling or other family member in the home (Royal Commission into Family Violence, 2016). | Project contact: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
| Supporting family reunification in child protection | The Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre in partnership with Women’s Legal Service Victoria are leading a collaborative research project investigating the experience of vulnerable mothers pursuing reunification with their children in the Victorian child protection system. | Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner and Associate Professor Silke Meyer |
| Who to trust: Help-seeking behaviours in education settings of children and young people experiencing family violence in Australia | The new National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032 (the Plan), has responded to the growing demand for family violence (FV) prevention and response efforts to centre children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right. | Principal Investigator: Dr Rebecca Stewart |
| Women, disability and violence: Creating access to justice | This project explored the experiences of women with disability in seeking access to justice when they have faced violence and/or sexual assault either inside or outside their relationships. | Investigators: Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Claire Spivakovsky, Professor Jude McCulloch and Dr Jasmine McGowan (Monash University), with Dr Jessica Cadwallader and Meredith Lea (People with Disability Australia) |
| Child and Young Person MARAM Lived Experience Engagement Project | In Australia, at the national and state level, there is increasing acknowledgement of the need to better respond to children and young people as victim-survivors of family violence in their own right. | Investigators: Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Jasmine McGowan and Dr Rebecca Stewart |
PERPETRATOR INTERVENTIONS
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Perpetrator program attrition and participant engagement strategies | The Monash Research Team were contracted by the Victorian Government to conduct research into the factors that influence a family violence perpetrator’s engagement in, and disengagement from behaviour change programs. | Investigators: Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Dr Jasmine McGowan |
| NTV online evaluation project: Evaluation of two online Men’s Behaviour Change Program | The MGFVPC team has been contracted by No to Violence to conduct an evaluation of two online men’s behaviour change programs (MBCPs) run by Thorne Harbour Health and Men and Family Centre | Investigators: Dr Nicola Helps, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Harley Williamson |
| Evaluation of Taskforce early intervention for family violence (U-Turn) program | The MGFVPC team, led by Associate Professor Silke Meyer, conducted an evaluation of a Victorian early intervention for family violence program (the U-Turn program) run by TaskForce. | Investigators: Associate Professor Silke Meyer, Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Dr Nicola Helps and Dr Harley Williamson |
| Exploring practitioners' views on discussing intimate partner sexual violence in domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions | In partnership with No to Violence, this project examined practitioners’ views on responding to sexual violence in DFV perpetrator interventions. | Investigators: Dr Nicola Helps, Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Elena Robertson (No to Violence), Isobel Montgomery (No to Violence), Hannah Petocz |
| Family violence perpetrator focused screening and risk assessment: identifying current practice and future opportunities | Australia has implemented substantive domestic and family violence (DFV) reforms in recent years. While the identification, risk assessment and management of victim-survivors has increasingly been embedded across service system responses, there is scant understanding and practice in relation to perpetrators of DFV. | Chief Investigators: Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University), Dr Nicola Helps and Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
| Perpetrator Interventions in Australia: A national study of judicial views and sentencing practice for domestic violence offenders | Despite increasing acknowledgement of the importance of perpetrator interventions in the delivery of integrated responses to family violence and promoting perpetrator accountability, there remains very little understanding of how magistrates and other judicial officers view, manage and use perpetrator interventions. | Project contact: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Professor JaneMaree Maher |
| Review of Minimum Standards for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs | Following the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence (Recommendation 91), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) contracted with the Monash Gender and Family Violence team to conduct a consultation and review of the Minimum Standards for the effective delivery of Men’s Behaviour Change Programs. | Investigators: Professor Jude McCulloch, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor JaneMaree Maher, Associate Professor Marie Segrave, Dr Kathryn Benier |
SYSTEMS & SERVICES
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| Submission to the Queensland Review of Charter of Victim's Rights | This submission was prepared in response to the Queensland Victims’ Commissioner’s review of the Charter of Victims Rights Main paper - Let’s talk victims’ rights document. | Project team: Chantelle Langdon and Isabel Dunn |
Embedding Client Experience in family violence service design and delivery | People with lived experience are central to the design and delivery of family violence support. The Embedding client experience into family violence service design and delivery project positions victim-survivors as expert problem-solvers with lived and living experience of services and service systems that can help drive systems change and service design | Chief Investigators: Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Louise Simms, Associate Professor Bridget Harris, Hannah Fahour and Kym Valentine |
| National Plan Stakeholder Consultation Project | The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 (National Plan) is Australia’s overarching strategy to address domestic, family and sexual violence. The Australian Government, with support from state and territory governments, is leading the development of the next National Plan, which will take effect from mid-2022. | Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor Silke Meyer, Dr Karen Gelb and Dr Jasmine McGowan, |
| National Plan Victim-Survivor Advocates Consultation Project | The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 (National Plan) is Australia’s overarching strategy to address domestic, family and sexual violence. The Australian Government, with support from state and territory governments, is leading the development of the next National Plan, which will take effect from mid-2022. | Chief Investigators: Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Ellen Reeves, Dr Karen Gelb, Dr Jasmine McGowan, Associate Professor Marie Segrave, Associate Professor Silke Meyer, and Professor JaneMaree Maher. |
| CRAF Review of the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework in Victoria | In 2016, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) contracted with a team at Monash GFV to conduct a review of the Common Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) as part of the DHHS response to the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence. | Investigators: Professor Jude McCulloch, Professor JaneMaree Maher, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor Marie Segrave, Dr James Roffee |
| It is well established that appropriate and timely sharing of information is critical in assessing, responding to and managing the risks of family violence. In Victoria, the Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) and the Coronial Inquest into the killing of eleven- year-old Luke Batty by his father recommended the introduction of a family violence information sharing scheme. | Investigators: Professor Jude McCulloch, Professor JaneMaree Maher, Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor Marie Segrave, Dr Kathryn Benier, Dr Kate Burns, Dr Jasmine McGowan and Dr Naomi Pfitzner | |
| Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review | This project will inform the Fair Work Commission’s review of the family and domestic violence leave entitlements in modern awards. | Project Lead: Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |
| Workplace sexual harassment: A national study to inform new prevention and early intervention strategies | There is increasing recognition across Australia of the prevalence and impacts of workplace sexual harassment. Despite this recognition, there is widespread acknowledgement that responses remain inadequate. The Australian Human Rights Commission (2020, p. 34) highlights that approaches ‘have failed to prevent and reduce workplace sexual harassment’. | Project lead: Dr Nicola Helps |
| Examining the impact of domestic and family violence across Australian workplaces and the need for improved workplace supports | Foregrounding the voices and experiences of 3,002 victim-survivors who worked in Australia while experiencing DFV, this study significantly advances Australia’s evidence base on how best to understand and respond to DFV within the workplace. | Project team: Dr Emma McNicol, Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sally Brewer |
| The Safe and Equal @ Work program will inform and develop workforce pathways, training supports and job creation for family violence victim-survivors. We will enhance safety, help address women’s financial insecurity and gender inequalities in the workplace and produce economic benefits through greater workforce participation. | Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon |