research

The report responds to three key research questions:

1. What are the nature and contexts of victims’ and survivors’ experiences of TFA and what help-seeking remedies currently exist?

2. What are the nature and characteristics of TFA perpetration?

3. How can we more effectively disrupt, prevent and respond to TFA?

Technology-facilitated abuse: Interviews with victims and survivors and perpetrators (australian study)

Technology-facilitated abuse: A survey of support services stakeholders (australian study)

This national Australian study addresses an overarching aim to examine the extent and nature of, and responses to, TFA within the Australian community. It comprises three discrete research stages across a two-year period (2020 to 2022).

Stage I, the focus of this report, aims to understand, from the perspective of support services workers, the nature and impacts of TFA, the adequacy of current responses to TFA, and areas for further development in both responses to and prevention of TFA. A national australia survey of workers in the community, domestic and family violence, sexual assault, health and legal services, specialist diversity services and allied sectors regarding their insights into TFA.