What is the Centre for Gender-Related Violence Studies?

The Centre for Gender-Related Violence Studies (CGRVS) was established in 1999 with the original aims being to initiate multi-disciplinary research into the causes and control of gender-related violence, and to promote informed, research-based discussion of policies and practices for reducing its occurrence and mitigating its effects.  In 2005, CGRVS decided to better recognise the critical contribution it makes to the outreach and community engagement of UNSW by prioritising projects that necessarily focus on engagement with ‘communities’, including service providers and service users from a range of  gender-related violence contexts. 

As such the CGRVS is committed to the development of practice informed research that contributes in a particular way to the outreach and community engagement of UNSW.  CGRVS believes that the importance of community engagement it best encapsulated the recursive relationship between practice and research expressed in the concepts - ‘practice-informed research’ and ‘research-informed practice’. CGRVS necessarily incorporates victim and survivor voices in all aspects of its work which enhances rigorous and reliable research; evidence-based practice; and an outcome-focussed approach.  All projects of the Centre combine research and practitioner knowledge, with knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange, to promote and encourage innovation. 

This website provides an overview of the CGRVS, its structure, and information regarding current and previous research projects.

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