Welcome to the National Centre’s Child Sexual Abuse Register of Active Research.
You can search the register, as well as submit a project for inclusion.
This national register houses research and quality improvement projects currently underway across Australia which investigate a range of topics associated with child sexual abuse. The register aims to capture research activities that contribute to our collective understanding of, and responses to, child sexual abuse in Australia, including prevention, service delivery, and support for victims and survivors.
This resource is an accessible overview of who’s doing what, providing real-time mapping of current child sexual abuse research activity across Australia. These graphics are interactive – you can click on elements to learn more about the research that is currently underway.
To promote and capture your current research on child sexual abuse, please submit your project to the register.
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Understanding child sexual abuse
Improving legal, policy and practice responses to the intersection of domestic violence perpetration and child sexual abuse offending
Michael Salter
University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
Disclosure of child sexual abuse
Investigating experiences of child sexual abuse disclosure and disbelief in the Family Court
Tunya Petridis
Petridis MacSween Consulting
Petridis MacSween Consulting
Morag MacSween
Petridis MacSween Consulting
Petridis MacSween Consulting
Needs of victims and survivors
Building trauma-responsive sexual health and relationship education
Tim Moore
Australian Catholic University
Australian Catholic University
Disclosure of child sexual abuse
Understanding the experiences of child sexual abuse disclosure in Australia in the wake of the Royal Commission
Patrick O'Leary
Disrupting Violence Beacon, Griffith University
Disrupting Violence Beacon, Griffith University
Disclosure of child sexual abuse
Learning from victims and survivors about what helps disclosure and responses to child sexual abuse
Lynne McPherson
Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University
Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University
Needs of victims and survivors
Amplifying the voices of victim-survivors: Advancing the harmful sexual behaviour evidence base – the Ava project
Gemma McKibbin
University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne