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Podcast: Early exposure, lasting harm: how childhood shapes the risk of violence against women

24 April 2026

Early exposure causes lasting harm. It’s a finding that runs through a growing body of violence prevention research.

This was the topic of a podcast by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Violence Against Women (CEVAW) featuring three researchers – CEVAW PhD candidate Phil Doan Pham, CEVAW Research Fellow Dr Revathi Krishna, and Life Course Centre Chief Investigator Professor Cameron Parsell from The University of Queensland.

Professor Parsell was asked the hard question: if violence against women is a long-term, structural problem that begins in childhood and echoes across decades, why haven’t our responses matched what the evidence demands?

His answer was honest. Find out now by watching or listening to the CEVAW Conversations podcast.