Family, domestic and sexual violence
ARCSHS has cultivated a breadth and depth of expertise in family, domestic and sexual violence over the past decade across a range of contexts and disciplines. We are proud to now formally articulate this as a core theme of our work.
Our research has explored topics such as:
- perpetration of intimate partner violence and sexual violence
- barriers and enablers of professional support service engagement
- frameworks for understanding and preventing violence
- evaluation of violence prevention initiatives.
Our family, domestic and sexual violence knowledge translation work includes:
- the tailoring of core capability-building offerings for the family violence sector
- the development of guidance resources for both prevention and response work.
Our projects include:
- Asia Pacific MSM Internet Survey - A six-country feasibility survey examining HIV prevention and care need and engagement among men who have sex with men
- Responsive pandemic practice - LGBTIQ+ family violence service innovation in Victoria during COVID-19
- Opening Doors - Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services
- Lean on Me - Peer support for mental health among LGBTQ adults in Melbourne
- Addressing the opportunities and risks of HIV elimination in Australia
- Catalysts of Change - Interventions and service pathways for gay, bisexual, trans and queer (GBTQ) men who have used family violence in Victoria, Australia
- Optimise+ - Strengthening LGBTQ+ community-controlled mental health and AOD services
- Trans and gender-diverse people living with hiv
- Sexual minority stressors and internalised prejudices
- Interconnect health research
- The Stigma-Free Standard
Partnership projects
ARCSHS is proud to be part of the Partners in Prevention of Sexual Violence Project, led by the Reducing Gender-based Violence (ReGEN) Research Group and based at La Trobe University's Violet Vines Marshman Centre.
Theme co-convenors:
Belinda O'Connor and Sophie Hindes
Latest updates
Coming forward report
The underreporting of heterosexist violence and same sex partner abuse in Victoria [2008]
William Leonard, Anne Mitchell, Marian Pitts and Sunil Patel
Launch: Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services
Held on October 13, the launch of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society's 'Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services' research report and accompanying resources. Speakers include:
- Acting ARCSHS Director
- Associate Professor Adam Bourne
- The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP
- Commonwealth Minister for Social Services
- Lead investigator Dr Stephanie Lusby
- Acting Rainbow Health Australia Co-Director Jackson Fairchild
- Jex Burgess
- Lived experience expert, Fahad Jawaid
- Thorne Harbour Health, Sue Webeck
- Domestic Violence Crisis Service ACT and Eloise Layard, ACON