MAEVE | News & Events

Dr Gemma McKibbin, a Research Fellow with the SAFE team at University of Melbourne, joins Toby Halligan from Triple R to discuss what it's like growing up in out-of-home care, on the Max headroom podcast.

MAEVe Committee Members Professor Kelsey Hegarty and Dr Laura Tarzia present on the study: Women's Input into a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings (the WITH Study)

Call for Papers Conference on Gendered Violence Across Time and Space: The Netherlands East Indies, Indonesia, East Timor (Timor-Leste)

MAEVe Supports the UN 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence25th November - 10th December

The ABS has released data from its 2016 Personal Safety Survey, which may be of use to MAEVe affiliated researchers

MAEVe Steering Committee member Laura Tarzia writes in Medical Republic about the role GPs can play in identifying and responding to adult sexual violence.

The Victorian AIDS Council (VAC) is pleased to be able to deliver LGBTI Relationship Violence Flexi-Support Packages to members of our community who may be at risk of relationship violence. A state-wide community led organisation, VAC seeks to increase the capacity for LGBTI individuals and families to be appropriately supported in their choices about moving on from intimate partner and family violence to improve their safety as a result.

From 2017 a team of researchers from the Faculty of Arts Gender and Violence Initiative formed a new collaboration with MAEVe expanding further the research scope of the alliance. The Gender and Violence Initiative will generate new research from humanities and social sciences on gender and violence in the Asia-Pacific region focusing on the three main themes: gendered violence and equity; historical violence; and trauma and narrative. This will complement existing projects in these areas across the University.As part of this collaboration, MAEVe has welcomed three new members to its steering committee, all of whom hold the title of co-leads of the Arts Gender and Violence Initiative within MAEVe.

MAEVe are supporting the team behind GEETA the documentary to raise tax-deductible donations for post-production. Set in the backstreets of Agra’s slums in India, GEETA takes us on the powerful journey of a survivor, who from the brink of suicide finds the courage to fight for a better life for herself and her daughters, while at the same time building a powerful movement for change in India. It’s a beautiful portrait of sisterhood and a new wave of women’s rights in India.

This Pursuit article, titled 'Children speak out on family violence' features interviews with children and young people whose fathers use violence. This research, conducted by Dr Kirsty Lamb, is part of the University of Melbourne’s broader “Fathering Challenges” research project that is funded by the Australian Research Council and led by Professor Cathy Humphreys (MAEVe co-chair).

MAEVe researchers Dr Gemma McKibbin and Prof Cathy Humphreys (co-chair) have partnered with MacKillop Family Services to work on Breaking the cycle: Promoting safe and respectful relationships for children & young people in care. Children and young people in out-of-home care are at significantly increased risk of living with domestic and family violence, as well as being victimised through harmful sexual behaviour and sexual exploitation.

MAEVe welcomes the State Government’s recently announced $1.9 billion package to address family violence. As the Government has stated, family violence is “a national emergency that costs far too many lives”, and MAEVe commends the Labor Government on this unprecedented injection of funding to address the issue.We are particularly pleased to see the Government announce a further $1.9 billion in funding on top of the $572 million invested last year to begin work on the Royal Commission’s most urgent recommendations.

Professor Cathy Humphreys was recently interviewed by Community & Indigenous Radio, The Wire, on the newly-established Centre for Research Excellence to promote Safer Families.

Australia’s first and only Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) to promote safer families will lead research into the health effects of intimate partner violence on individuals and families, and how the health sector can respond. The Centre for Research Excellence to promote Safer Families — led by Kelsey Hegarty, Stephanie Brown and Cathy Humphreys will also research the health sector responses needed to improve safety, health and wellbeing.

On Friday 7th April, MAEVe held the highly successful forum Early Intervention: Changing the trajectory to prevent violence against women and their children. The event was attended by over 100 delegates from a mixture of the tertiary education, community and government sectors, and featured international and national experts in the sometimes-neglected area of early intervention into family violence and violence against women and their children (VAW).

The Community Fellows Program aims to meet the research needs of community organisations to conduct small research-related projects in collaboration with university-based researchers. Depending on the size of the project, a grant of up to $5000 will be available to the community-based organisations to compensate them for the time that Community Fellows spend working at the University. At least one fellowship will be awarded focusing specifically on the prevention of violence against women.

MAEVe would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We realise that the holiday season can be a difficult time for many, so we hope that you stay safe during this time.As the Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, we’ve been able to achieve much towards this goal with your help in 2016.We look forward to working together again in 2017 and will be in touch shortly in the new year.Kind regards,Kelsey Hegarty (Co-chair), Cathy Humphreys (Co-chair) and Kate O’Halloran (Academic Convenor).

Prof Cathy Humphreys responds to the Victorian Commission on Children and Young People's report, Neither Seen nor Heard: Inquiry into issues of family violence in child deaths (December 2016).

Safe and Strong: A Victorian Gender Equality Strategy was launched Monday 5 December 2016 by the Andrews Labor Government. The first ever strategy of its kind, it is driven by the recognition that gender inequality is one of the key drivers of family violence.

On 25th November 2016, The Andrews' Labor Government delivered landmark reforms to protect women and children, with the release of a 10 Year Plan to end family violence. Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s Plan for Change details how the Labor Government will deliver the 227 recommendations made by Australia’s first Royal Commission into Family Violence and build a new system that protects families and punishes perpetrators.

MAEVe's Academic Convenor, Dr Kate O'Halloran contributes to The Huffington Post, arguing that Trump's ascension to Presidency was based on a patriarchal fantasy of white men's oppression.

MAEVe are pleased to announce the following PhD scholarship opportunity: Researching the effectiveness of mother-child group intervention in the aftermath of domestic and family violence.

Gudrun Burnett, Churchill Fellow of the Peabody Association London presents ‘The vital role housing plays in responding and tackling domestic abuse and the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA)’.

Featuring Nicola Sharp-Jeffs (Research Fellow, CWASU, London Metropolitan University and 2016 Winston Churchill Fellow) and Julie Kun (CEO, WIRE).Friday 11 November 2016, 11am-12pmMeeting Room, Melbourne Social Equity Institute201 Grattan Street, Carlton (The University of Melbourne)**please note this venue change.