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KODY Policy Stakeholder Group: Leverage Points for policy development across sectors: a systems approach. Report of Workshop 1, November 2022 (2023)

This report presents the findings from the first KODY Policy Stakeholder Group workshop held at the University of Melbourne on ...

Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia (2021)

In the United States (U.S.) and Australian contexts, the fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of cisgender men's violence ...

Domestic violence and the impact on young children (2021)

This chapter outlines the impact of domestic violence (DV) on young children. Exposure to DV has detrimental effects on the ...

Shifting practice in domestic violence: child protection workers partnering with mothers (2019)

This chapter will draw on recent research (a national case reading of child protection files in Australia) to highlight the ...

Beyond co‐occurrence: addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse. (2022)

This paper reports an Australian project designed to simultaneously explore and capacity build professional practice when working at the intersection ...

Participatory practice guideline development at the intersections of domestic and family violence, mental distress and/or parental substance use (2022)

It is well established that the service system has a poor history of responding holistically to address the needs of ...

Practice-led research: Developing communities of practice to drive research and practice change in the domestic and family violence arena (2020)

Conducting practice research with migrants and refugees is a complex exercise, involving multiple agendas, diverse actors and varied intercultural relationships ...

Response to the Draft National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children (2022)

In this response to the 2022 Draft National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children, Professor Cathy Humphreys highlighted ...

KODY Practitioner Workshop: Practitioner-led Knowledge Building – Report (2023)

On March 16th, 2023, the KODY Program’s first Practitioner Workshop was held in Richmond, Melbourne. Practitioners and program managers from ...

DICE ‘ROLE’: Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation – Researching Onset of Young People’s Lived Experience with Coerced ‘Self-produced’ Material

This project focuses on how children and young people are being coerced to ‘self-produce’ Child Exploitation Material (CEM). This qualitative ...