Rigorous, comprehensive and timely research are the cornerstone of social and transformative change. For researchers responding to femicide, family and intimate partner homicide, there are substantial challenges around accessing robust data that is complete and fully representative of the experiences and social identities of those affected. This raises questions of how certain social identities are privileged and how the lens of intersectionality may be constrained or enabled through research. Further, there is limited insight into the emotional labour and safety for researchers, and how they experience and mitigate vicarious trauma. We examine these issues through a shared critical reflection and conclude with key recommendations to address the challenges and issues identified. Four researchers examining and responding to femicide, family and intimate partner homicide in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom shared and evaluated their critical reflection. We drew on our experiences and offer insights into processes, impacts and unintended consequences of fatality reviews and research initiatives. There are substantial limitations in accessibility and completeness of data, which has unintended consequences for the construction of social identities of those affected, including how multiple forms of exclusion and structural oppression are represented. Our experiences as researchers are complex and have driven us to implement strategies to mitigate vicarious trauma. We assert that these issues can be addressed by reconceptualizing the goals of data collection and fostering collaborative discussions among those involved in data collection and violence prevention to strengthen research, prevention efforts and safety for all involved.

严谨、全面和及时的研究是社会变革和变革的基石。对于应对杀害女性、家庭和亲密伴侣凶杀案的研究人员而言，在获取完整且完全代表受影响者的经历和社会身份的可靠数据方面存在重大挑战。这提出了某些社会身份如何获得特权以及如何通过研究限制或启用交叉性镜头的问题。此外，对研究人员的情绪劳动和安全，以及他们如何体验和减轻替代性创伤的了解有限。我们通过共同的批判性反思来审视这些问题，并提出关键建议，以应对已确定的挑战和问题。四名研究人员检查和应对杀害女性行为，澳大利亚、加拿大和英国的家庭和亲密伴侣凶杀案分享并评估了他们的批判性反思。我们借鉴了我们的经验，并就死亡审查和研究计划的过程、影响和意外后果提供了见解。数据的可访问性和完整性存在重大限制，这对构建受影响者的社会身份产生了意想不到的后果，包括如何表现多种形式的排斥和结构性压迫。我们作为研究人员的经历很复杂，并促使我们实施减轻替代性创伤的策略。