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Australia National Research Agenda to Reduce Violence Against Women & Their Children

Direct Link to Full 33-Page 2014 Document:

http://www.anrows.org.au/sites/default/files/page-attachments/National%20Research%20Agenda%20May%202014.pdf?utm_source=ANROWS+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f1353527e3-Edition_Seven_04_02_152_2_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ac2f28d0aa-f1353527e3-211034545

May 2014 - The National Research Agenda to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children (the National Research Agenda) is a major step forward in building an evidence base of knowledge that can be used to improve policy and practice in this area. It will be central to building a shared understanding of research

priorities between practitioners, research organisations and policy makers across Australia. It will help to drive expansion of research and information and it will help to identify how we are progressing in our mission to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, violence against women and their children.

The National Research Agenda will inform the development of the ANROWS Research Program as well as provide a framework for, and guidance on, priority areas of research and research themes for academics, researchers, organisations and governments across Australia.

ANROWS designed a multi-stage process to produce the National Research Agenda that included:

· Reviewing the National Plan and related policy documents.

· Commissioning two gap analyses of Australian research on violence against women, the first on

national statistical collections and the second on research since 2000.

· National stakeholder consultation and engagement which included 127 written submissions and six

stakeholder roundtables involving over 75 participants.

As illustrated in the summary on the following two pages, the National Research Agenda organises identified

research priorities for policy and practice within a framework of four Strategic Research Themes (SRTs),

which relate to all of the National Plan’s six national outcomes:

1. Communities are safe and free from violence.

2. Relationships are respectful.

3. Indigenous communities are strengthened.

4. Services meet the needs of women and their children experiencing violence.

5. Justice responses are effective.

6. Perpetrators stop their violence and are held to account for their actions.