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Research

DoD SAPRO conducts and reviews both independent and collaborative research to:

  • Understand the problem of sexual assault
  • Identify groups that are disproportionately affected
  • Monitor trends over time
  • Develop and evaluate effective prevention and response strategies
  • Improve capacity and inform wide dissemination of effective strategies
  • Identify appropriate audiences and messaging
  • Clearly communicate findings for action
  • Monitor implementation of comprehensive approaches in order to optimize prevention and response systems across the Department of Defense

Research Agenda

The FY21–25 DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Research Agenda defines key research priorities to synchronize and focus the Department’s research on topics and methods that have the potential to result in short-term and sustained improvements in sexual assault prevention and response in the Armed Forces. The DoD Research Agenda working group identified 10 research priorities after synthesizing multiple gap analyses and subject matter expert insights. The full Research Agenda for FY21 – 25 can be found here.

DoD Research

  • OPA 2019 Service Academy Gender Relations Focus Groups – Overview Report

    The 2019 Service Academy Gender Relations Focus Groups Overview Report is part of an assessment cycle at the Military Service Academies (MSAs), and was included in the APY18-19 Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies.

  • 2018 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members

    This report presents the results of the 2018 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members. The survey is used to evaluate sexual harassment and sexual assault prevention and response programs and to assess the gender-relations environment in the active duty force. The survey has been conducted since 2002 as part of the quadrennial cycle of human relations surveys outlined in Title 10 U. S. Code Section 481.

  • OPA 2018 Service Academy Gender Relations (SAGR) Survey – Overview Report

    The 2018 Service Academy Gender Relations (SAGR) Survey is part of an assessment cycle at the Military Service Academies (MSAs). Surveys were conducted at all three MSAs as well as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

  • OPA 2017 Military Service Gender Relations Focus Group Report

    This report presents the results of the 2017 Military Service Gender Relations Focus Group as part of a two-year assessment cycle.

  • OPA 2017 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Reserve Component Members Report

    This report presents the results of the 2017 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Reserve Component Members (WGRR 2017). This is the fourth survey of gender-related issues in the Reserve components conducted by Office of People Analytics (OPA) as part of the quadrennial cycle of human relations surveys outlined in Title 10 U. S. Code Section 481.

  • OPA 2016-2017 Military Investigation and Justice Experience Survey

    The Military Investigation and Justice Experience Survey (MIJES) is an anonymous survey and the first DoD-wide survey effort designed to assess the investigative and legal processes experienced by survivors that have made a formal report of sexual assault and have gone through the military investigation process to case closure.

  • OPA 2017 Service Academy Gender Relations Focus Groups - Overview Report

    The 2017 Service Academy Gender Relations Focus Groups Overview Report is part of an assessment cycle at the Military Service Academies (MSAs), and was included in the APY16-17 Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies.

Previously released volumes of the Military Workplace Study include:

Additional information on the study can be found here: