Newly-Enhanced SV & IPV Research
Area at www.vawnet.org
December 2006
VAWnet has significantly
enhanced the content, structure, and utility of the Research materials on the
website. Previously organized under Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence,
these areas have been combined into one main area that is easily accessible
through the homepage. The content has been enhanced and reorganized to reflect
an intuitive structure for ease of navigation. Access the new area at: http://new.vawnet.org/category/index_pages?category_id=476
The new Research area
contains fully cross-referenced online resources relevant to research on
domestic and sexual violence including Applied Research Documents, data sets,
research and evaluation tools, fact sheets, research reports, and other
publications that provide an analysis, critique and/or review of current
related issues.
Features Include:
- Applied Research Documents:
Access documents organized by research-specific categories within domestic and
sexual violence, download a full up-to-date list of available documents, and
find information about the structure, development, and review process for
Applied Research. All documents are available in both HTML and PDF format.
- Research Reports, Fact
Sheets, & Bibliographies: Contains a selection of research materials
including fact sheets, bibliographies, research reports, summaries, and
analysis on topics related to domestic and sexual violence. Materials are
organized by topic within both domestic and sexual violence.
- Research & Evaluation
Tools: Includes recommended definitions and data elements for researching
violence against women, program evaluation tools and strategies, and
considerations around the credibility, value and limitations of research and
data collection methods.
- Data Sets: Features publicly-accessible online
data sets on violence against women, and provides information about utilizing
and/or analyzing data to enhance the work of advocates and others working to
end domestic and sexual violence.
* For a printer-friendly
version of this Announcement with live links, click here: http://www.vawnet.org/ENewsletters/ResearchAnnouncement.pdf
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Director of Sexual & Domestic Violence Prevention
Division of Injury and Violence Prevention
of: 804-864-7740
fax: 804-864-7748
email: Becky.Odor@...
web: www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence