PhD Scholarship: Perpetrators and Bystanders of Violence Against Women

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.

Requirements

The selection of applicants for the award of higher degree research scholarships at Griffith University involves consideration of your academic merit and research background. To be successful within this role, you will have evidence of gender-based violence research, advocacy, or practitioner expertise.

You will have knowledge in applied research methodologies, and a strong desire to undertake field research across the Indo-Pacific.

• Expressions of interest are welcome from domestic and international applicants (including citizens of Australia and or permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand)
• If you are an international applicant who is currently offshore please consider the viability of travelling costs before submitting an expression of interest. Please see the FAQs web page for requirements for offshore international applicants.
• Applicants must have completed, or expect to complete, a bachelors degree with honours equivalent to IIA/first class honours or a Masters degree (AQF Level 9) incorporating a significant research component of a standard comparable to a bachelor honours degree or be regarded by Griffith University as having an equivalent level of attainment in accordance with Schedule One of the HDR Scholarship Procedure. For further information on the eligibility requirements for the program refer here.

Please note:

• A master’s, honours, or bachelor degree in a relevant field such as Gender Studies, Sociology, Social Work, Criminology, Law, or Public Health will be favourably considered.
• Strong background in research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, is desirable.
• Familiarity and/or preparedness to work in the context of trauma and people who use violence is desirable.
• Prior experience with field is desirable.
• Applicants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, who identify themselves as such, are strongly encouraged to apply.

International applicants should ensure that English Language Proficiency requirements for the program are met before formally applying. Applicants to research programs will need to show they meet:

1. A minimum overall band score of 6.5 on the IELTS (Academic) with no band score less than 6.0 OR
2. A minimum score of 575 on the paper-based TOEFL including a score of no less than 5.0 on the TWE OR
3. A score of 79 on the internet-based (iBT) TOEFL with no sub-score less than 19