men’s violence

This week Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, in her capacity as a Professor at Monash University, has released the findings from Australia’s largest study of men’s engagement with behaviour change programs. This research found the current approach to working with men who use violence is missing opportunities to more effectively engage men in behaviour change, to keep […]

This week, in her capacity as a Professor (Practice) at Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and colleagues have released a new report, Securing Women’s Lives. The report presents the findings from their analysis of 235 sentencing judgments in cases of male perpetrator intimate partner femicide. The study examined risk and system interactions prior to the intimate […]

In recent weeks children as victim-survivors in their own right have been invisible in political announcements and actions. Their experiences silenced and ignored. Co-authoring an article for Women’s Agenda, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains that for too long system responses to domestic and family violence in Australia have seen children only as extensions of their primary […]