Tatenda Manomano is the discipline lead in Social Work and a senior lecturer in the Australian College of Applied Professions University College, as well as a research fellow at the University of the Free State.Eziwe Mutsikiwa is a research, monitoring and evaluation and gender expert consultant in Zimbabwe with significant research experience in issues that involve women and intimate partner violence and children.Nicole Dubus is a Professor of Social Work at San Jose University in the United States of America.