Collaborating with people who have experienced abuse when playing sport as a young person
Have you experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse when playing sport (at any level) in Australia as a young child or teenager? Would you like to help make community sport safer and more inclusive?
VU researchers from the Safety and Wellbeing Research group are inviting 4-to-6 people who’ve experienced child abuse in Australian sport to join an advisory committee for a collaborative research project.
Valuing lived experience engagement in child safeguarding in sport research
Our research team recently commenced a collaborative research project with the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse. The project aims to identify strategies to improve community clubs’ response to child abuse in sport and co-develop a framework for the involvement of people with lived experience of abuse in sport in collaborative research projects.
Both the research team and the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse value social justice and collaborating with those directly impacted by harmful behaviours in sport. The lead researcher Dr Aurélie Pankowiak also has lived experience.
As part of the research team commitment to safety and wellbeing, all researchers have undergone (or will complete by project start) training in trauma-informed care. Ali Quigley, a Lived Experience Advocate, was hired to facilitate the collaboration.
Eligibility
- Identifying as someone who has survived/ been directly impacted by child abuse in sport (psychological, physical or sexual abuse) before the age of 18.
- Being an adult (18 years and over).
- Desire to use the insights from your experience to inform safer sport prevention strategies.
We encourage people from all background/social positions/levels of sport to participate.
What's involved
- Online monthly meetings for 6—8 months.
- Potential participation in an interactive forum with sport/child-safeguarding stakeholders.
- Written and verbal feedback on the engagement process with researchers.
- Financial compensation.
For more information and to express interest: you can find project details in the Expression Of Interest form.
