Research

This project explores the prevalence, nature and impacts of AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (AI-IBSA), including non-consensual “deepfake pornography” and intimate images (photos or videos) created using generative AI.

This ARC Future Fellowship project examines the efficacy of digital tools and interventions to detect, prevent and respond to image-based sexual abuse (the non-consensual taking, creation or distribution of intimate images, including threats to share intimate images).

This project aims to understand Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women and gender diverse Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people's lived experiences of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), including interpersonal impacts, reporting and disclosure, and the effectiveness of mainstream and Indigenous-led support services in responding to reports and/or disclosures from Indigenous victim/survivors.

This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Alexis-Family Violence Response Model (Alexis-FVRM) in a regional area in Victoria. The Alexis-FVRM is a coordinated police and social services response to high-risk and recidivist family violence. It embeds a family violence specialist key worker within a police unit.

Some LGBTIQA+ community members from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds struggled to express themselves using their own language within their own culture. Part of the reason is a lack of a fully developed lexicon in this space. Professional translators and interpreters also face the lack of a well-established LGBTIQA+ glossary when they come across the relevant topics in the course of their work. This project sets out to address these issues.

Through an online survey, this project examines the prevalence and impacts of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in 10 different countries, including the general public’s attitudes towards IBSA. Image-based sexual abuse refers to the non-consensual creating, taking, or sharing of intimate (nude or sexual) images (photos or videos), as well as threats to share intimate images.

This project aims to improve the way victim-survivors are interviewed in sexual offence cases by examining their experiences and perceptions of investigative interview techniques. It expects to generate new knowledge about interview techniques that can promote victim wellbeing and the disclosure of sensitive information during investigative interviews.

This project seeks to break new ground by gathering much-needed empirical data about women’s experiences accessing support and justice service provision when experiencing technology-facilitated coercive control.

This report was commissioned by the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) to investigate communication challenges experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) clients when accessing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The study was undertaken through the lens of professional interpreters and translators who provide language mediation services in NDIS settings.

The purpose of this project is to involve students of different disciplines, languages and cultures, in feedback practices to increase their degree of autonomy and self-regulation in the development of their plurilingual discourse competence.

This study aims to research the needs of Victorian community schoolteachers for the development of quality, evidence-based teacher training courses.

The project maps Australia's engagement with Latin America, aiming to improve institutional coordination and collaboration across educational, governmental, and business sectors.

This project was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care with the intention to evaluate different translation methodologies in order to identify the most effective approach to achieve maximum communication with community members from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This project explores how arts contribute to reconciliation and transitional justice in deep-seated conflicts, analysing ethical and cultural implications.

This project delves into the rich literary and cultural interactions spanning ancient and modern East Asia, with a focus on how these exchanges can offer insights into the deepening polarization and societal divides in our precarious times.

The project investigates how technology impacts belonging and support in education, aiming to enhance these through effective interventions.

This project investigates conflicts arising between translators and non-English readers. Specifically, in the translation of public health materials for migrant non-English speakers in Victoria, Australia.

This project compares state government support for neighbourhood houses across NSW, VIC and WA to assess how funding and other policy settings shape the work that neighbourhood houses do, who they program services and activities for, and who are at risk of experiencing service gaps.

Scoping review and co-production of housing and service model design. 

Scoping review and co-production of housing and service model design. 

This Investigative Panel establishes the housing circumstances and experiences of temporary visa holders (TVHs) in Australia and provides critical evidence of challenges and opportunities in the development of housing policy and service provision. The panel's findings form a set of policy and practice recommendations to improve housing outcomes for TVHs.

This project will produce empirical evidence on lived experience participation in housing and homelessness policy and service design and delivery. Sources of evidence include a scoping review of existing literature; analysis of policies and models; and results from co-designed investigations with people with lived experience of housing precarity and homelessness.