Knowledge Grant
Build data capability and research skills to better understand and respond to community need.
Knowledge Grants support community legal organisations to undertake a research project to:
- develop a new understanding of the legal needs of Victorians through collection of data and information
- improve capability to collect, analyse and use data and information about particular audiences
- share information with other organisations or agencies which results in a better understanding of the target group and ways to address need effectively.
The types of projects likely to be funded involve:
- investigation into a specific civil legal issue through collection and collation of data and information.
- using data to identify a community profile using a range of data sources, such as service data, ABS data, data dashboards, community or client feedback.
- piloting a new service model, practice or data collection approach that involves the collection of new or additional data and information about clients and their needs.
See the projects we have previously supported.
Grant criteria
In addition to meeting the object of Victoria Law Foundation and grant aims, priority will be given to applications that can demonstrate the guiding principles.
Guiding principles
Impact
Projects funded through the Knowledge Grant program should lead to better services, programs or interventions for Victorians.
Sustainability
The skills, systems, processes and data you gather as part of your project should be useful beyond the life of your project. This might include how you work with client groups, deliver your service, allocate resources or advocate for law reform.
Ethical standards
It is a requirement that any Knowledge Grant research project complies with best practice guidelines, codes and legislation relating to ethical research.
We have further guidance, information and templates available for developing your proposal.
Application Timeline
Applications for 2023/24 Knowledge Grants are closed.
Eligibility
Knowledge Grant applications are only open to community legal services or not-for-profit community organisations that provide a dedicated legal service.
Research organisations, courts, tribunals, statutory bodies or another community legal service may consider partnering with a community legal organisation to provide guidance and expertise or pool resources to undertake a research project where there is shared interest.
We only fund organisations – individuals are not able to apply.
Preparing your application
We offer a range of guidance, support and resources to help develop your application.
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Case studies
Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.
Knowledge Grant
projects we've funded
Improve community access to legal services by using data to identify barriers and help-seeking behaviour.
An evaluation of its legal practice to determine impact of the Health Justice Partnership (HJP) model for clients and staff.
Exploring if COVID-19 fines were disproportionately issued to culturally and linguistically diverse communities during 2020.
Understanding the relationship between how women’s agency, the extent to which they can tell their own story, is portrayed in Family Violence Intervention Order applications and the outcomes of those applications.
A state-wide study of the experiences of families seeking reunification within the Victorian child protection system.
A report documenting how women experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV) are policed and criminalised.
This project will develop a profile of wage theft and underpayment recovery actions through analysis of administrative data, case characteristics and outcomes at Springvale Monash Legal Service.
Investigating the civil law aspects of elder abuse in the Barwon region. Research findings will inform service delivery, interventions and responses to elder abuse to meet the needs of a growing ageing population.
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