The SVRPU receives funding from external and internal sources, allowing the Unit to carry out this vital work.
Chief Investigators |
Income |
Years |
Project Title and Synopsis |
Administering Institution |
Higgins, McKillop, Rayment-McHugh, & Russell |
$150,000 Westpac Safer Children, Safer Communities Grant |
2022-2023 |
Advancing organisational child-safe practices using contextual safeguarding strategies In partnership with the Institute of Child Protection Studies, ACU, the Children’s Safety and Safeguarding Capabilities Surveys will be used to evaluate contextual prevention strategies being implemented in youth-serving organisations to safeguard children from abuse. |
Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University |
Christensen, Rayment-McHugh, McKillop |
$56,008 Daniel Morcombe Foundation |
2020-2023 |
Evaluation of Changing Futures project This project will evaluate the Changing Futures program, which is designed to build the national knowledge base regarding children's harmful sexual behaviour. |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Rayment-McHugh, Christensen, & Adams |
$142,764 Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women |
2020-2023 |
Cairns Youth Sexual Violence Support Services – Evaluation This research project evaluates the implementation and delivery of the Cairns-based Youth Sexual Violence Prevention Service and Youth Sexual Violence Counselling and Case Management Support Service. It will consider the efficiency and effectiveness of the service response in preventing and reducing harms caused by perpetration of youth sexual violence to drive continuous improvement in service delivery. |
UniSC Australia |
Rayment-McHugh (project leader), McKillop & Christensen |
$500,000 Queensland Corrective Services |
2020-2023 |
Developing an evidence-informed and culturally safe treatment program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males convicted of sexual offences. |
UniSC Australia |
Dr Tamara Blakemore, Dr Shaun McCarthy, Dr Karen Menzies, Dr Graeme, Stuart, Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh |
$17,500 Access to Justice Innovation Fund |
2022 |
"Now.See.Hear" A trauma-informed and culturally-safe screening tool for justice-involved youth |
University of Newcastle |
Dr Nadine McKillop; Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh |
$6000 QUT |
2022 |
Social Policy Research Services: scoping study to inform the design and implementation of a pilot program to prevent child sexual abuse re-offending, modelled on Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) |
QUT |
Ms Dimity Adams |
$45,000 Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT |
2022 |
Safer Girls Safer Women Project |
UniSC Australia |
Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh & Dr Nadine McKillop |
$38,500 University of Newcastle |
2022 |
Evaluation of the Name.Narrate.Navigate Practice Pathways Program |
UniSC Australia |
Chief Investigators |
Income |
Years |
Project Title and Synopsis |
Administering Institution |
Dr Nadine McKillop, Dr Larissa Christensen & Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh (in partnership with University of Tasmania) |
$22,000 UniSC Launch Partnerships Grant |
2022-2023 |
Engineering the second-generation CSAM-prevention |
UniSC Australia |
Chief Investigators |
Income |
Years |
Project Title and Synopsis |
Administering Institution |
Rayment-McHugh & McKillop |
$16,809 University of Newcastle |
2021 |
This project will evaluate the Name Narrate Navigate program, developed by the University of Newcastle to address youth perpetrated family and domestic violence in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop & Rayment-McHugh |
$12,000 Lucy Faithfull Foundation & Stop It Now! U.S. |
2021 |
This qualitative project will record the history of the Stop It Now! movement over the past 30 years, with a view to providing recommendations for future developments and collaborations. |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Rayment-McHugh & Christensen |
$50,000 |
2020-2021 |
Informing Child-Safe Practice from a Contextual Lens This mixed-methods project measures current organisational safety climate and practices in Australia. Data from this project will be used to inform an online professional development training package focused on contextual prevention frameworks to support and enhance child-safe practice. The secondary aim is to further validate Kaufman’s Organisational Safety Climate Survey, and assess the psychometric properties the newly developed short-form survey (McKillop, Rayment-McHugh, Kaufman, Ransley, & Gardiner, 2020) for measuring organisational change. |
UniSC Australia |
Rayment-McHugh, McKillop, Christensen |
$10,451 Life Without Barriers |
2019-2021 |
Enhancing risk assessment for preventing child sexual abuse: An evaluation of Life Without Barriers 'train-the-trainer' program |
UniSC Australia |
Rayment-McHugh, Christensen (co-leaders), McKillop,Moritz,Burton,Jones, Prenzler, Lacey & Edwards, in partnership with Queensland Police Service
|
$68,860 Australian Institute of Criminology |
2019-2020 |
'LEADing evidence-informed Child Exploitation Material (CEM) Reduction.' |
UniSC Australia |
Christensen, Rayment-McHugh, McKillop |
$17,625 Queensland Police Service |
2019 |
'What Works' in Policing: Managing Child Sex Offenders in the Community |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Rayment-McHugh, Christensen, Prenzler |
$22,271 Queensland Corrective Services Grant Scheme |
2018-2019 |
The effectiveness of sexual and violent offender rehabilitation and reintegration programs: integrating global and local perspectives to enhance correctional outcomes |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Rayment-McHugh |
$33,700 Queensland Corrective Services |
2018 |
Evaluation framework for therapeutic interventions delivered within a forensic context |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop |
$40,000 The Benevolent Society |
2018 |
Examination of the Benevolent Society’s ‘child-safe, child-friendly’ risk management framework: Recommendations for enhanced practice |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop |
$50,000 Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women |
2016-2018 |
A short-term outcome evaluation of the Bravehearts Turning Corners program |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Burton, Patterson Hobbs, Christensen, Rayment-McHugh |
$10,000 Research Collaboration Grant |
2018-2021 |
Sentencing disparities for female and male sexual offending in Queensland: Do they exist, and what is the impact? (RG18/03) |
UniSC Australia |
McKillop, Brown, Labhardt, Jones |
$12,550 Research Collaboration Grant |
2016- 2018 |
Comparison of UK and Australian, students and offenders, experiences of unintended exposure to indecent images online and online pornography use (RCG16/02). Prevention of sexual violence and abuse in online and offline contexts (RCG18/02) |
UniSC Australia |