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Violence against women and their 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.

Register of Active Research

The ANROWS Register of Active Research (RAR) aims to provide a comprehensive landscape of research currently in progress in Australia that relates to violence against women and their children. It lists research projects that are underway.

In October 2020 ANROWS released Australia’s National Research Agenda to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children (ANRA 2020–2022). The purpose of ANRA is to direct research efforts towards addressing priority evidence gaps for policy and systems-wide practice design, nationally. It includes, where known, reference to research underway in priority areas as part of Appendix B.

A centralised register of current research in priority research areas is an important resource for researchers who are considering projects and seeking research funding, and for research funders when assessing grant applications. The RAR is also a useful resource for researchers seeking to collaborate across jurisdictions and disciplines on future projects.


To be included in the RAR, research must be related to violence against women and children, have an Australian target population and be currently underway. Please note that while ANROWS encourages rigorous and ethical research, we are not able to quality assure the projects proposed for inclusion in the RAR. Inclusion in the RAR does not indicate an endorsement from ANROWS.

The value of the RAR increases with each relevant project registered. Therefore, we strongly encourage researchers to register project details as soon as practicable. 

Submitted projects will be uploaded to the RAR as soon as possible after registration.

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International students’ sexual and intimate partner violence experiences

Dr Laura Tarzia

Commenced June 2019

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National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey

Dr Christine Coumarelos

Commenced June 2019

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NCAS: Mistrust study – Investigating Australians’ mistrust of women’s reports of sexual violence

Dr Christine Coumarelos

Commenced June 2019

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NCAS: Young peoples’ understandings of violence in intimate partner relationships

Dr Christine Coumarelos

Commenced June 2019

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Breaking patterns of violence to prevent family homicide

A/Prof Lyndal Bugeja

Commenced June 2019

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Achieving justice in response to street and public harassment: Developing victim-centred perspectives

Dr Bianca Fileborn

Commenced June 2019

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The earliest warning signs of intimate partner abuse

Leanne Nunn

Commenced July 2019

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What are the distinct and distinctive experiences of young women who experience intimate partner violence?

Bianca Johnston

Commenced October 2019

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Intimate partner violence and the Western Australian justice system: A victim perspective

Nicola Stokes

Commenced November 2019

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Mothers’ perceptions of communication and collaboration with their children’s teachers about their separation and divorce

Dr Linda Mahony

Commenced December 2019

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Family violence data platform

Respect Victoria

Commenced January 2020

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Far right in Australia: Intellectuals, masculinity and citizenship

Prof Bryan Turner

Commenced January 2020

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