Towards a wraparound housing model for young people experiencing and escaping family violence
This project examines the current experiences and needs of young people in Victoria seeking housing supports following experiences of family violence. it seeks to build the evidence needed to inform the development of a wraparound housing model for young people experience and escaping family violence.
Project timeframe:
June 2024 – November 2024.
Funded by
Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre.
Project team:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Rebecca Stewart
Innovative Perpetrator Responses in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – Scoping study
This scoping study will support the ACT Government to better understand potential innovative approaches, available evidence to support proposed approaches across other jurisdictions and identify future trials and pilots that may be undertaken in the ACT to hold offenders to account, prevent them from reoffending, and improve victim protection.
Project timeframe:
June 2024 – August 2024.
Funded by
Community Services Directorate, ACT Government.
Project team:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU) and Jessica Seamer.
The role and impact of Men’s Behaviour Change Programs in IPV desistance pathways
Little research has explored the factors which support men who perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV) to stop or significantly reduce their abusive behaviours (sometimes referred to as ‘desistance’). This project aims to investigate the role of men’s behaviour change programs (MBCPs) in facilitating pathways out of perpetration, identify factors that support or hinder these pathways, and explore how these dynamics vary across a diversity of backgrounds and over time.
Project timeframe:
2024-2025
Funded by
ANROWS
Project team:
Led by Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU) with Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre), Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University) and Professor Lorana Bartels (ANU) with research partners – Domestic Violence Crisis Services (ACT), YFS Ltd (Qld), Meli (Victoria), Centre for Non-Violence (Qld) and Uniting Care (Qld)
Research to understand community standards and attitudes in Queensland to inform the Review of particular defences and excuses in the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld).
On 15 November 2023, the Queensland Law Reform Commission (the Commission) were requested by Government to review particular defences and excuses in the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld). To inform the development of the Commission’s recommendations, this community attitudes research project has been contracted. The research team, led by Dr Hayley Boxall with Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Prof Lorana Bartels, will utilise a mixed-methods research design, involving a community attitudes survey and focus groups.
Project timeframe:
July 2024 – October 2024
Funded by
Queensland Law Reform Commission
Project team:
Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU), Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre Consulting) and Prof Lorana Bartels (ANU)
‘Safe at home’ in their own right
This project aims to contribute to building the evidence needed to improve policy and practice to deliver improved housing options for children and young people experiencing domestic and family violence in Australia. This includes exploring children and young people’s views on the design, components and delivery of suitable housing that meets children’s needs.
Project timeframe:
July 2024 – February 2025
Funded by
54 Reasons (Save the Children)
Project lead:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon