Dr Donna Chung

Welcome to the home page of Donna Chung, Senior Lecturer in Social Work.

I am currently an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Warwick in the UK

My research interests are in the areas of gender and sexuality, with a specialist interest in gendered violence.

I am the Co-Director of the Research and Education Unit on Gendered Violence with my colleague Dr Patrick O'Leary. I have conducted various research and consultancies in areas of gendered violence for the Commonwealth and State Governments. The research includes: domestic violence policy, gender asymmetry in domestic violence, responses to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence, women's homelessness and domestic violence and integrated responses to domestic violence.

Research and Education Unit on Gendered Violence

School of Social Work and Social Policy

• Applied Social Research
• Gendered Violence
• Research Degrees Coordinator
• Bachelor of Social Work Honours Coordinator
• Human Service Project Management

Australia Research Council International Expert Reviewer

PhD (Adel)

M Pub Pol (NE)

BSW (SAIT)

• I have a long standing research interest in domestic violence, dating violence and gender inequality in heterosexual relationships. In recent years, I have worked as a research consultant to the Australian Commonwealth and State Governments on domestic violence policy and programs. Key national domestic violence research studies include: a study of women’s homelessness following domestic violence, gender symmetry in the perpetration of domestic violence, an evaluation of the Australian government’s domestic violence initiative, studies on the effectiveness of programs for men who use violence in intimate relationships and examining integrated service responses to domestic violence for women, men and children.
• The research has a strong applied focus which examines how the state and the community could more effectively prevent and respond to gendered violence.
• I supervise honours and research degrees students in areas of gendered violence,sexuality and social policy.
• I am a Chief Investigator on three current Australia Research Council Grants examining dating violence and the effectiveness of domestic violence perpetrator programs.

Chung, D, North R & Zufferey C (under review) ‘Knowing her place: Women’s homelessness and Australian policy responses’. Social Politics

Carson E, Chung D & Day A (under review) ‘Evaluating Contracted Domestic Violence Programs: Standardization and Organisational Culture’. Australasian Evaluation Journal

Day A, O’Leary P, Chung D & Justo D, (forthcoming) Domestic Violence - Working With Men - Research, experience, practice and integrated responses. Federation Press. Book is due for publication in September 2009

Day A, Chung D, O’Leary P & Carson E (2009) ‘Programmes for men who perpetrate domestic violence: An examination of the issues underlying the effectiveness of intervention programmes’. Journal of Family Violence. 24 pp.203-12

Hand, T, Chung D & Peters M (2009) Use of Information and Communication Technologies to Coerce and Control in Domestic Violence and following separation. Stakeholder Paper 6. ISSN: 1443-8496 www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au

Boursnell, M; Lee, T & Chung D (2008) Tell us what you know: Surveying University Students’ Attitudes about sexual assault. Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault Newsletter No. 16, 2008 pp.4-12

Trickett, E & Chung D (2007) Brickbats and Bouquets: Health services, community and police attitudes and the homeless experiences of women 45 years and over living in rural South Australia. Rural Social Work and Community Practice 12 (2). pp5--15

Chung D (2007) 'Making meaning of relationships: Young women’s experiences and understandings of dating violence'. Violence Against Women. 13 (12). pp 1274-95

Zufferey, C and Chung, D (2006) Representations of Homelessness in the Australian Print Media: Some Implications for Social Policy. Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy; Issue 42 ; pp22-38(Dec 2006) ISSN 1323-2266

Chung D, O'Leary P, and Hand T (2006) Sexual violence offenders: prevention and intervention approaches. Issues Paper 5, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault. http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/issue/i5.html

Chung D and Zannettino L (2005-06) 'Feminists Researching Domestic Violence Perpetrator programs: Improving Women's and Children's Safety or Misplaced Effort?' Women against Violence: An Australian Feminist Journal Issue 18.pp.37-45

Chung D (2005) 'Violence, control, romance and gender equality: Young women and heterosexual relationships'. Women’s Studies International Forum 28(6) p.445-55

Costello M, Chung D and Carson E (2005) 'Exploring alternative pathways out of poverty: making connections between domestic violence and employment practices'. Australian Journal of Social Issues 40 (2) p.253-67

O’Leary P, Richards J, Chung D and Zannettino L (2004) 'Project Safer: Evaluation of South Port Pilot Program, August 2003 to November 2003' A joint initiative of the Research and Education Unit on Gendered Violence, University of South Australia and the Gold Coast Domestic Violence Service Queensland Police.

Chung D Zannettinno L and Colley D (2004) Effective Integrated Approaches in the delivery and responses for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Chung D, O’Leary P and Zannettinno L (2004) National Comparative Assessment of Programs for Men who are Violent towards their Female Partners Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Chung D, O’Leary P and Zannettinno L (2004) National Review of Integrated Programs for perpetrators of domestic violence Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Szirom T, Chung D and Jaffe R (2003) National meta evaluation of Partnerships Against Domestic Violence Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Chung D (2002) 'Questioning domestic violence orthodoxies: challenging the social construction of women as victims and as being responsible for stopping male violence'. Women Against Violence Issue 11 p.7-15

Logan B & Chung D (2001) 'Current social work practice in the fields of mental illness and intellectual disability: Changing service approaches to people with a disability?'. Australian Social Work 54 (3) September 2001, p.31-42

Bagshaw D & Chung D (2001) 'The needs of children who witness domestic violence: A South Australian study' Children Australia 26 (3), p.9-17

Chung D, Kennedy R, O’Brien B, Wendt S (2001) Home Safe Home: A national study of the links between domestic and family violence and women’s homelessness. Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra

Bagshaw D, Chung D, Couch M, Lilburn S & Wadham B (2000) Reshaping responses to domestic violence: research into the needs of women, men and young people’s who have experienced domestic violence (Vol 1&2) Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Bagshaw D & Chung D (2000) Women, men and domestic violence Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Bagshaw, Dale and Chung, Donna (2000) "Gender Politics in Research: Male and Female Violence in Intimate Relationships" Women Against Violence, Issue 8, July 2000, pages 4-24.

Research Centre for Gender Studies & Strategic Partners (1999) Meta Evaluation of the Partnerships Against Domestic Violence: Current Perspectives on domestic violence a review of national and international literature Office for Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Chung D, Hart G & McColl M (1996) ‘A study of client follow up services at the Adelaide Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic’. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 20 (2) April 1996 pp 161-4

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Social Work & Social Policy

• Domestic Violence
• Homelessness
• Gender Politics
• Heterosexuality and equality in relationships
• Sexual Assault