THE national research organisation dedicated to women’s safety, ANROWS, released the Australian National Research Agenda (ANRA) to End Violence Against Women and Children 2023-2028.
Co-designed with a diverse group of survivors, practitioners and researchers, the ANRA forms part of ANROWS’s mandate to expand the research and evidence base on what works to prevent violence, intervene in its trajectory, respond in crisis and support healing and recovery as set out in the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032.
Dr Jane Lloyd, Acting CEO of ANROWS, said that having victim-survivors co-design the ANRA was absolutely necessary.
“We reviewed the existing evidence and identified the gaps in the research. We then took that to people who are living and breathing these issues every day. People who have lived through violence, academics who are leaders in this field and practitioners who are working in these systems and see where the lack of evidence, or the lack of other options, are causing the most harm.”
The nine priorities have been identified under three key topics:
• Systems and society
Structural inequities
Gender relations, norms, and attitudes
Trauma and DFSV-informed, victim-centred systems
• Populations in focus
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Children and young people
People who use violence
• Types and patterns of violence
Sexual violence
Coercive control
Economic abuse
For further information, contact the Office of the CEO at ANROWS on +61 0410449544 or email jane.lloyd@anrows.org.au
