LISTENING LEADERS
Listening to lived experience insights is central to informing the quality of responses.
LISTENING LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
(Founded by Insight Exchange and Edie’s Place)
We understand that the cost to listen and respond directly to victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexualised violence is not always funded by traditional grants and program funding. We also understand that the needs of an organisation can change and vary greatly. We know that flexibility on fit for purpose funding can make a real difference in ensuring that listening is done well and informs responses.
The Listening Leaders Scholarship is a one-off (non-recurring) scholarship to sustain and deepen the work of five leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to actively and ongoingly listen and respond to the needs of women who are silent about or silenced by violence and abuse.
The recipient is a named individual, and the payment is made to their place/base of work (registered charity). The use of the funds is to sustain and deepen listening and responding to women (and children) who may otherwise be overlooked or undervalued by conventional service and system design.
Recipients FY24/25 Listening Leaders Scholarship
The selected recipients work in initiatives that have national scope and are based in/from Australian registered charities. Each initiative has been forged in response to listening directly to the voices of women in community and has been established outside of conventional government grants.
Together the selected recipients work across these focus areas:
- Women’s rights and dignity - Listening to and responding to women and children directly and indirectly impacted by armed conflict.
- Women’s health and wellbeing - Access to information and support at birth. Uplifting lived experience informed responses to birth trauma.
- Women's economic safety - Listening to women’s lived experience of economic abuse to inform systemic design & uplift.
- Women’s work and safe transport - Supporting women’s access to flexible work + Safe transport for women and children.
- Women’s experiences of justice - Building on opportunities for women to engage in restorative justice options.
The recipients of the scholarship are listed below:
Maha Abdo OAM, Founder, Muslim Women Australia (MWA) https://mwa.org.au/
Amy Dawes OAM, Co-founder and CEO, Australasian Birth Trauma Association (ABTA) https://birthtrauma.org.au/
Rebecca Glenn, Founder and CEO, Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) https://cwes.org.au/
Sarra Stewart, CEO, Shebah All Women Rideshare (Shebah is run by Safe Transport Australia (STA)) https://www.shebah.com.au/
Thea Deakin-Greenwood, Co-founder and Director of Practice and Advocacy, Transforming Justice Australia (TJA) www.transformingjustice.org.au
Resources and support - The selected recipients (charities) are supported with the one off (non-recurring) financial resource, and optional extra supports such as access to Insight Exchange print stock, participation in the Insight Exchange Creating Conversations and virtual sessions, and peer support.