PhD Position: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (2)

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University of Melbourne

  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: PhD
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Renumeration: $39,500 / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 28/10/2024
  • Location: Australia
Gender-based violence (GBV)
Project Summary
The Australia Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) is the world’s first Centre to tackle the full range of forms of violence against women in Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. CEVAW aims to transform our understanding of the problem by examining the structural drivers that cause and compound violence against women (VAW), and pioneering new, evidence-based approaches to inform trajectory-altering practice and policy. 

The PhD candidates will undertake research in the Department of Social Work in CEVAW in one of two CEVAW research streams. One research stream (led by Professor Sarah Wendt) will examine sexual, domestic, and family violence primarily in homes and neighbourhoods across time to identify how communities can become crucial actors in preventing and/or reducing VAW. The preferred focus of the PhD candidature research is on religion and faith-based organisations as an example of civil society influencing communities, families, and service provision. If you have an idea for a PhD research project that involves another aspect of the role of civil society in preventing and/or reducing VAW, please feel free to contact and discuss with Professor Wendt.

The second research stream (led by Honorary Professor Cathy Humphreys) will examine the effectiveness and range of crisis and recovery responses for women and their children living with and leaving DFV or other types of VAW. It is desirable, but not essential that the focus will be on the response from non-specialist services and informal responses to understand their role in creating safety and accountability. The intersection and response of drug and alcohol services is a particular, but not exclusive area of interest

Examples of research areas include, but are not limited to:

  • Understanding the role of civil society and the religious context to VAW.
  • The role of faith-based organizations in preventing and responding to VAW.
  • Understanding how specialist and non-specialist, Aboriginal community-controlled organizations, domestic and family violence (DFV) and sexual assault services recognize faith and spirituality, in supporting victim/survivors and/or perpetrators of violence and abuse.
  • The full range of ways in which faith-based organizations are involved in and shape, DFV service delivery.
  • Practitioner perspectives on / experiences of the role of faith in responding to DFV.
  • The role of non-specialist services in responding to DFV.
  • The experiences of children and adult victim survivors of the non-specialist service responses to DFV.
  • Understanding the impacts of colonization, religion, and associated violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (joint supervision with an Indigenous supervisor would be arranged).
  • Understanding the intersection of DFV with drug and alcohol and the service system response

We are seeking PhD proposals that meet the following criteria:

  • Proposals should identify how they connect to the aims of CEVAW;
  • Proposal should explain how the project centres victim-survivor and Indigenous knowledges and understands the socio-structural drivers associated with the violent conduct of those who use violence; and
  • Proposals should demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach.

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