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Research

Our research

Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

News and events

ANROWS hosts events as part of its knowledge transfer and exchange work, including public lectures, workshops and research launches. Details of upcoming ANROWS activities and news are available from the list on the right.

ANROWS

About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and children.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Resources

To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.


EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Representations of culturally and linguistically diverse women in domestic and family violence policies in Australia

Aim

This project examines the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in the Third and Fourth Action Plans as well as South Australia's and Queensland's action plans relating to CALD women. This analysis seeks to examine the discourse, representations and unexamined areas of the representation of CALD women as outlined in the National Plans.

Methods

This project is a qualitative policy analysis and uses a "What's the problem represented to be?" framework, developed by Carol Lee Bacchi.

Project start date

February 2019

Expected completion date

October 2022
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