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Research

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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.

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Webinar program

The ANROWS webinar program brings together policymakers, practice designers, practitioners, and women with lived expertise of violence to discuss research findings and key policy issues relevant to preventing and responding to violence against women and children.

By bringing together a diverse range of speakers informed by the evidence-base, lived expertise, and policy and practice knowledge, ANROWS webinars focus upon research implications for policy and practice.

Our webinars work across sectors to help identify challenges and opportunities to implement and mobilise the evidence base to better support women and their children experiencing violence. For more information about upcoming webinars, please visit our events page.

Disclaimer: The views expressed by speakers or other third parties in ANROWS webinars and any subsequent materials, are those of the speaker or third-party and not, necessarily, of ANROWS.

 


Classroom dynamics, student wellbeing, attitudes and behaviours

Respectful relationships education

This webinar discussed new evidence on the effectiveness of holistic and inclusive respectful relationships education (RRE) programs, and what is needed to support schools and teachers to implement them.

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Lived expertise and co-production across the domestic and family violence sector

Towards meaningful engagement: Embedding the lived expertise of victims and survivors in the co-production of research, policy and practice

This webinar is invaluable to anyone in the DFV sector wanting to embed lived expertise in the co-production of research, policy and practice. It unpacks new research which explores the role of victims and survivors in developing policy and the panel discusses best practice mechanisms for engagement and co-production across research, policy and practice.

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Adolescent violence in the home: Prevalence, service responses and the intersection with disability

 Researchers, youth advocates, policymakers, sector experts and practitioners across the youth and legal sectors.

This webinar is designed for policymakers, practice designers, practitioners and researchers working in youth, disability, legal, and domestic and family violence services. It focuses on the prevalence and nature of AVITH; the intersection of AVITH and young people with disability; how services could use a collaborative response to support young people and families experiencing AVITH; and the support needs that young people themselves have identified.

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Attitudes & VAW

New survey questions and new evidence: What does the 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey tell us?

This webinar unpacks the 2021 NCAS findings including new and revised survey questions and ways of analysing the findings.

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Improving service responses

No more circles: Learning from survivors, perpetrators and practitioners on how to respond better to intimate partner and sexual violence

The webinar shares the findings from research which provides a base to improve service responses. The discussion explores the potential opportunities to transform service responses from circular and ineffective to those that are safe, innovative and meet the needs of victims and survivors as well as those who use violence.

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Contravention orders, domestic and family violence and the impact on children

Family law parenting orders, breaches and their impact on children

This webinar unpacks research on the impact of breaches of parenting orders upon children, and explores how the findings might shape future reforms to achieve better outcomes for families with complex needs and long litigation histories.

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Emerging technology and domestic and family violence

Technology-facilitated abuse: Extent, nature and responses in the Australian community

This webinar gives viewers insight into one of the first global studies to engage with perpetrators using qualitative methods to understand drivers, experiences and characteristics of, and motivations for, technology-facilitated abuse.

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Young people’s understandings of domestic and family violence

Listen up! Hear from young people about their understandings of domestic violence

Facilitated by Body Safety Australia and featuring a panel of young people passionate about preventing violence against women, this webinar unpacks the report “It depends on what the definition of domestic violence is”: How young people conceptualise domestic violence.

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Intimate partner homicide

What we know about intimate partner homicide

This webinar unpacks the available data on intimate partner homicide, addresses the gaps in our knowledge of these homicides and discusses the need for institutional and professional accountability when it comes to preventing the intimate partner homicide deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims.

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Economic insecurity and DFV

Understanding economic and financial abuse

This webinar unpacks the findings of the CommBank Next Chapter research series on financial abuse in Australia and builds community, sector and industry understanding of this important issue.

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Community attitudes towards sexual violence

“Chuck her on a lie detector”: Investigating Australians’ mistrust in women’s reports of sexual assault

This webinar unpacks the findings of the report “Chuck her on a lie detector”: Investigating Australians’ mistrust in women’s reports of sexual assault, and its implications for policy and practice across response services, the criminal justice system, education and the broader community.

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COVID-19 and DFV

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic and family violence

The panel explores how services across the DFV, police, health and legal sectors responded during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss lessons learned as we approach the end of the second year of the pandemic.

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Impact of systems on migrant and refugee women

Systems, access, evidence: migrant and refugee women experiencing domestic and family violence

The expert panel discuss the ways in which engagement with systems, including, migration, justice and welfare, is a critical element of addressing domestic and family violence in all its forms.

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Responding to coercive control in practice

The power in understanding patterns of coercive control

This webinar explores ways that services can use the language of coercive control to support women to expose patterns of abusive behaviour.

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Enhancing education for young people

“Sex Ed”: Young people, consent and the Australian curriculum

The expert panel discuss the rationale for the changes to the curriculum, the role of digital cultures in young people’s relationships and sexual learning, and opportunities for sexual and consent education.

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Improving Family Court practice and responses

Safety in the Family Court

The expert panel will draw on their diverse experiences to offer insights into improving safety in the Family Court.

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Key considerations for evaluation

Evaluation in the violence against women sector

The expert panel discuss evaluations they have implemented and share strategies and tips for workers in the violence against women sector.

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System responses to economic insecurity

Policy levers to address economic insecurity – Part 2

This webinar discussed future directions for policy to address the difficulties faced by women experiencing violence and economic insecurity.

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Health system responses

Violence against women and mental health

This webinar explored how mental health services can enhance responses to domestic and family violence through a collaborative approach, and how policy can address the intersection of violence against women and mental health.

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Gambling and intimate partner violence

Gambling harm and intimate partner violence

This webinar launches the practice guide “The dangerous combination of gambling and domestic and family violence against women”. Developed as part of the ANROWS research project, this guide aims to enhance practice across gambling help, financial counselling, and domestic and family violence services.

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Police and court responses

Accurately identifying the person most in need of protection

This webinar discusses the research project “Accurately identifying the ‘person most in need of protection’ in domestic and family violence law” which focuses on the gap between the intent of the law and its application, factors that contribute to women being misidentified as perpetrators of DFV, and areas for improvement through procedural guidance and professional development for police and courts.

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The intersections of domestic and family violence and alcohol and other drugs and/or mental health

Working with complexity

This webinar discusses interconnected research, the Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY (STACY) and Safe & Together addressing ComplexitY for children (STACY for Children) along with accompanying resources.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Understanding the role of Law and Culture in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in responding to and preventing family violence

This webinar unpacks the findings of the ANROWS research project, “Understanding the role of Law and Culture in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in responding to and preventing family violence”.

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Engaging men who use violence

Using the client–worker relationship to engage men who use violence

This webinar explores how a personalised client–worker relationship in men’s behaviour change programs can encourage men to engage and develop their willingness to change.

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Perpetrator intervention systems

Strengthening accountability across perpetrator intervention systems

This webinar unpacks some of the findings of the ANROWS research project “Improved accountability: The role of perpetrator intervention systems”.

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Invisible practices

Invisible practices: Working with fathers who use violence

This webinar discusses how services can use an all-of-family approach to working with men who use violence, and demonstrate the skills needed to ‘pivot to the perpetrator’.

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LGBTQ relationships

Domestic and family violence and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ relationships: A discussion on strengthening practice

This webinar will explore how the LGBTQ and DFV service sectors can strengthen referral pathways and practice and deliver appropriate domestic and family violence programs for LGBTQ communities.

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Trans women of colour from CALD backgrounds

Responding to sexual violence experienced among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia

This webinar discusses the systemic barriers which prevent trans women of colour who are victims and survivors of sexual violence from accessing support services and justice, and explores ways to improve service design and practice change.

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Complex trauma and mental health and refugee services

Working with women who have experienced complex trauma in mental health and refugee services: A comparative discussion

This webinar discusses different understandings of complex trauma and how gendered approaches impact care options available for women.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace

Preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace: A discussion

This webinar discusses the gendered and intersectional nature of workplace harassment, and how policies can be developed to create safe and inclusive workplaces.

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Strengthening capacity for multicultural and settlement services

Strengthening capacity for multicultural and settlement services to support women experiencing violence

This webinar explores how multicultural and settlement services regularly encounter clients who are experiencing domestic and family violence, and unpacks future directions for policy and practice.

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Working with men from refugee backgrounds

Enhancing practice when working with men from refugee backgrounds who use domestic and family violence

This webinar explores how services can strengthen men’s behaviour change programs and practice when working with men from refugee backgrounds who use domestic and family violence.

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Partner contact in perpetrator interventions

The practice of partner contact and prioritising women’s safety in domestic violence perpetrator interventions

This webinar unpacks the strengths and challenges of the practice of partner contact and explains the reflective practice guide to improve individual and organisational practice.

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Migrant and refugee communities

Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

This webinar discusses prevention and engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

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Supporting women

Sadie’s story: Helping women affected by domestic and family violence navigate a fragmented system

Produced in collaboration with AIFS, this webinar discusses the effects of domestic and family violence on women, and how practitioners can help women receive the support they need.

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Gender-based violence in inpatient mental health units

Safe for women? Preventing gender-based violence in inpatient mental health units

This webinar explores how current practices are not keeping women safe from gender-based violence in inpatient mental health units, and what changes can be made to improve the system.

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Responding to DV in the antenatal care setting

How can we enhance routine screening? Strengthening identification and response to domestic violence in the antenatal care setting

This webinar discusses the challenges of effectively implementing antenatal DV screening in complex health care settings.

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