Phase 2
Phase 2 has recently commenced. More information will be available soon.
Our partners

Paul Ramsay Foundation
The first stage of the Griffith-led project has been made possible through a partnership with the Paul Ramsay Foundation, whose mission is to break cycles of disadvantage in Australia. Beyond providing critical funding, the Foundation brings experience to help us change policy settings, connect with policy entrepreneurs, and identify policy levers. Their expertise will contribute to the co-creation of programs and policy reform and connecting experts and key stakeholders nationally.
Griffith University
Griffith Criminology Institute
Griffith Criminology Institute (GCI) is one of the largest, most vibrant and high-performing criminology communities in the world. Through collaboration and innovation our research is helping find answers and solutions to universal problems. One of the six key challenges the Institute seeks to address is to break cycles of crime and inequality. We recognize that crime clusters in demographic, family, economic, social and environmental patterns, which over time reinforce disadvantage and inequality. Our project is central to this work and builds on our internationally recognised expertise and leadership in research with incarcerated parents and their children, with disadvantaged communities and young people, with bringing together the research-practice nexus through work with the community sector, and with translation of research into policy development. Our project aligns with the Institutes mission to better understand these cycles of disadvantage and prevent their recurrence, to improve life outcomes for individuals and communities.
Queensland Corrective Services
This project aligns with Queensland Corrective Services commitment to reform service delivery for women. Their newly established Women’s Estate seeks to advance a gender-responsive and trauma-informed approach to managing women in order to support them to rehabilitate, reconnect with their community, and make positive change. We will work in partnership with the Department to achieve these common goals.
“This is why Queensland Corrective Services is taking a trauma-based approach to women in prison as a part of the Women’s Estate project. We are excited to be partnering with Professor Dennison and her research team to identify ways to better support women prisoners and their children to try to break that cycle of incarceration.”