Lived Experience and Law Enforcement Project

The Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department has commissioned the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre to undertake a national research project on victim-survivors who have experienced family, domestic or sexual violence and have engaged with police.

This research project seeks to build a lived-experience and practice-informed evidence-based about the circumstances in which advocates and practitioners and victim-survivors sought help from the police and what response they received.

Focus Groups

In the first phase of the project, we are holding online focus groups with advocates and practitioners. For more information on the project and what you will be asked to do, please read the explanatory statement by clicking here.

If you would like to assist us in building this evidence-base, 60 minute online focus groups will be held on:

12 pm - 1pm on Tuesday 13 August 2024
1pm - 2pm on Friday 16 August 2024
1pm - 2pm on Wednesday 21 August 2024
10 am -11am on Thursday 22 August 2024
1pm - 2pm on Friday 23 August 2024
11am - 12pm on Tuesday 27 August 2024
11am - 12pm on Thursday 29 August 2024
11am - 12pm on Friday 30 August 2024
1pm - 2pm Friday 6 September 2024
12pm - 1pm on Tuesday 10 September 2024
10am - 11am Thursday 12 September 2024
2pm - 3pm Thursday 12 September 2024

Please register for a session on the following page and use an organisational email.

This is a screening measure as this project discusses sensitive information. Persons who purposefully misrepresent themselves will be subject to removal from the project. Your insights during the focus group will be completely anonymous.

Once you register for a session, a member of the research team will be in touch to send you a Zoom link.

If you are interested in participating but none of the available session times are suitable, please email our team at ConnectingWithLivedExperience@monash.edu and we can arrange an interview.

Thank you for your support. Should you have any questions regarding this project, please email ConnectingWithLivedExperience@monash.edu

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