Projects we've funded

Understanding the relationship between how women’s agency, the extent to which they can tell their own story, is portrayed in Family Violence Intervention Order applications and the outcomes of those applications.

This project aims to improve the provision of targeted and timely legal help and information for Victorians with financial legal problems by investigating help-seeker data and conducting research with clients and referral partners to identify earlier opportunities for legal help that reduces financial legal problems escalating to court.

The Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, in partnership with Elizabeth Morgan House and researchers from the University of Melbourne, seek to identify barriers and legal needs of women in custody to maintain contact with their children where child protection is involved. The project addresses the gaps in knowledge and data relating to the unmet legal and support needs for women who are in the criminal justice system, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and also have child protection involvement.

Exploring if COVID-19 fines were disproportionately issued to culturally and linguistically diverse communities during 2020.

An evaluation of its legal practice to determine impact of the Health Justice Partnership (HJP) model for clients and staff.

Improve community access to legal services by using data to identify barriers and help-seeking behaviour.

Monash Law Clinics will explore how future planning and guardianship laws might be used to identify family violence and improve safety for victims of family violence by restricting coercive behaviour by the perpetrator. The research concentrates on a specific form of family violence and will look at the role Health Justice Partnerships play in promoting preventative legal practices.

Following the shift to routine digital engagement when applying to the court for family violence intervention orders, this partnership project between Northern Community Legal Centre and the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights will unpack the range of process issues and barriers to participation faced by culturally and linguistically diverse women within Melbourne’s North-West.