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Research

Our research

Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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News and events

ANROWS hosts events as part of its knowledge transfer and exchange work, including public lectures, workshops and research launches. Details of upcoming ANROWS activities and news are available from the list on the right.

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About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and their children.

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Resources

To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.

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Peak or advocacy body

ANROWS supports both domestic and family violence and non-domestic and family violence peak and advocacy bodies working to end men’s violence against women and their children.

ANROWS offers a range of resources, developed based on the research evidence, to support organisations delivering prevention of violence against women advocacy, capacity-building and other services. Some key ANROWS resources for organisations are highlighted below.

Resources for supporting different priority populations can be found under the “I am a …/I am interested in …” menu, or via the search function. Additional resources can be found in our Library.


Papers and reports

Migrant and refugee women in Australia: A study of sexual harassment in the workplace

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Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian states and territories

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Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australia

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Change the Story:
National violence prevention framework, developed in partnership with Our Watch and VicHealth

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Australians’ attitudes to violence against women and gender equality: Findings from the 2017 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey

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Evidence to action and local action as evidence:
Findings from the Building Safe Communities for Women and their Children Action Research Support Initiative

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ANROWS state of knowledge papers:
A series of papers that review the literature on specific issues related to violence against women and their children

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The Evaluation Guide:
A guide for evaluating behaviour change programs for men who use domestic and family violence

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Evaluation Quick Guides:
ANROWS’s Evaluation Quick Guides series focuses on aspects of evaluation relevant to the VAW sector. These Quick Guides provide succinct tips, advice and examples of applying evaluation concepts, frameworks and skills, as well as links to useful resources

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Fact sheets and resources

Fact sheet

Migrant and refugee women in Australia: A study of sexual harassment in the workplace

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Special collection

Defining and responding to coercive control: Policy brief

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Fact sheet

We’re all progressing together: NCAS findings for Australian states and territories

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Fact sheet

Have our attitudes and understanding improved since 2017? NCAS 2021 findings for Australian states and territories

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Fact sheet

Violence against women:
Accurate use of key statistics

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Fact sheet

Personal Safety Survey 2016: Fact sheet

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Fact sheet

Intimate partner violence:
An avoidable burden on the health of women and their children

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Infographics

Australians’ attitudes to violence against women and gender equality (NCAS)

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Special collection

Working across sectors to meet the needs of clients experiencing domestic and family violence

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More information for peak and advocacy bodies

Who we are

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ANROWS’s stakeholders

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The Australian policy landscape

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ANROWS Library:
Government policies and initiatives reading list

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ANROWS Library

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