WUNRN
Australia National Research Agenda to Reduce Violence Against
Women & Their Children
Direct Link to Full 33-Page 2014 Document:
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.