Call for Applications: ANROWS Research Grant (Australia)

Research priority

• People who use domestic, family and sexual violence.

Research Topics

• Examples of research topics include:
  • understanding and addressing the ways that boys and men are targeted and recruited online to perpetrate violence (e.g. technology-facilitated abuse, stalking and harassment, image-based abuse, threatening violence)
  • understanding and addressing the ways that legislation, court policies and processes are used by people who use violence to inflict additional harm on victim-survivors
  • alternatives to intervention orders as an accountability mechanism for young people who use family violence or dating violence
  • strengths-based and trauma-informed models of working with people who use DFSV
  • interventions that harness shame as a motivating force for personal growth and change.

Populations in focus

• ANROWS recognises that systems and services in Australia are designed to meet the needs of the general population and are often not designed for diverse populations.
• ANROWS therefore encourages applicants to include a focus on one or more of the following populations:
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • migrants and refugees (including second- and third-generation migrants)
  • people with disability
  • LGBTQI+ people
  • young people
  • older people
  • people who live in rural or remote areas
  • people who have been incarcerated

Funding Information

• Total funds of between $1.5 million and $2 million are available through the ANROWS 2023-2027 Research Grants Round for research projects that contribute to the DFSV evidence base.

Expected Outcomes and Impact

• Funded research projects will deliver high-quality, relevant and translatable evidence that:
  • privileges the knowledge of people with lived expertise of DFSV
  • can drive policy and practice decisions.
• To maximise impact, applicants are strongly encouraged to engage with a range of stakeholders relevant to the research, from project design through to the dissemination of findings, including:
  • relevant federal and/or state policymakers
  • survivor advocates/people with lived experience of DFSV
  • population/s who are the focus of the research
  • agencies who work directly with victim-survivors and people who use DFSV in identifying and/or responding to, and/or recovering from, gender-based violence

Eligibility Criteria

• ANROWS welcomes projects that are community led with the population/s of interest, or that engage with relevant organisations representing their identified groups.
• Researchers may only be listed as the Principal Chief Investigator on one project. There is no limit to the number of applications on which researchers can be listed as a Chief Investigator.
• Only Australian-based institutions or organisations can submit applications as the lead organisation. Research sites for projects must be based within Australia.

For more information, visit ANROWS.