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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.

ANROWS

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.

Principles of peer assessment and review


ANROWS is committed to supporting research integrity, promoting public trust and ensuring best practice in its operations.

ANROWS peer assessors and reviewers must comply with guidelines underpinned by eight core principles. These principles ensure that the process of selecting grant applications and reviewing publications meets international and national standards of practice in peer assessment.

The core principles of the ANROWS peer assessment and review process are:

  • Expertise: Applications are assessed by experts in the field of violence against women.
  • Fairness: Applications are assessed and scored against published criteria. The award of grants is based on merit.
  • Transparency: ANROWS publishes details of the Research Program application process, guidelines for peer assessors (including conflicts of interest requirements) and, following the award of grants, peer assessment panel membership. Feedback from peer assessors will be provided to applicants.
  • Impartiality: To prevent bias or prejudice and ensure impartial assessments, grant applications are assessed by two or more peer assessors. Peer assessors are required to declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest throughout all stages of peer assessment processes. The declarations are managed by ANROWS staff as appropriate.
  • Confidentiality: Information provided throughout the peer assessment process will remain confidential.
  • Ethics: Peer assessors are bound by a Code of Conduct. ANROWS has procedures for handling complaints about misconduct, bias or prejudice. Projects which contravene principles of research integrity or of research ethics will not be funded.
  • Quality: ANROWS only funds projects which are of a high quality.
  • Efficiency: Peer assessment of grant applications will be efficient, timely and meet advertised and/or agreed dates with ANROWS.
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