We are seeking 2 highly motivated PhD candidates to join our team and contribute to a significant research project focusing on engaging perpetrators and bystanders across the Indo-Pacific region. This project aims to produce intersectional and feminist research that delivers evidence-based initiatives that facilitate a new orthodoxy to intervening with perpetrators. Further, the research aims to explore ways of empowering individuals and communities to be active bystanders to facilitate norms that promote safety and non-violence.
The PhD candidate should be interested in topics such as the current understandings and responses that engage perpetrators or bystanders of violence against women and children, including the identification of areas of innovation in therapeutic, education, justice, and policy initiatives to perpetrators. This may also include exploring the intersectional life course trajectories of males in their attitudes and/or use of violence against women and children. This may include considerations of childhood and intergenerational trauma on people who use violence or at risk of using violence.
The scholarship recipient will be located with the Griffith University Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), under the supervision of Professor Patrick O’Leary, Chief Investigator for the Engaging Perpetrators and Bystanders workstream, CEVAW.
The PhD candidate will benefit from multidisciplinary supervision provided by CEVAW’s Chief Investigators across different Australian universities as well as networking opportunities across academia and industry through conferences and CEVAW’s partner organisations, nationally and internationally.
