A Queensland law professor is urging authorities to consider trialling women-only police stations as a way to target domestic violence.

The head of the school of justice at Queensland University of Technology, Professor Kerry Carrington, said such police stations had been shown to encourage more women to report domestic violence, and resulted in more women being satisfied with the outcome.

But the innovation is not among the recommendations handed down last month in the Queensland Government's Not now, not ever report into domestic violence.

Professor Carrington told 612 ABC Brisbane that Brazil has been operating women-only police stations since 1985 and had gradually increased their presence to 485 locations.

She said the concept had since spread to Argentina, Guatemala, Peru and more recently had begun to operate in India.

Professor Carrington said she had travelled the world to examine the role of such stations in combating domestic violence.

"This is just one suggestion that could possibly be trialled," she said.

"Women's access to justice is the key thing and the key things that most women complain about is not being believed, not being heard, not having appropriate support or response.

"That's one of the key findings of most research, and of course that puts police in the firing line, but one way of alleviating that is to have specially trained police who work in these police stations."

'Almost half the homicides in Australia connected to domestic violence'

Professor Carrington said measuring the rise and fall in the incidence of domestic violence could be difficult because a rise in reporting may not represent an actual increase in the number of incidents.

But she said women's access to justice had improved significantly in nations where women-only police stations had been operating.

There were several models of such police stations in operation, involving either specially trained female police officers or civilian workers.

"There are those that are part of a police service and they are distinct, usually discreet women-only police stations and they deal with all gendered violence, both sexual assault and domestic violence," Professor Carrington said.

"They've had major success both in enhancing women's willingness to report, enhancing conviction rates and enhancing the satisfaction of women who've sought these services.

"But mostly they've also been more effective in being able to corral what is an integrated policy response to domestic violence."

Professor Carrington said she had no problems with the recommendations of the Not now, not ever report.

"But there is one way of integrating all the specific little ones around the police is to say let's have a women's only police service, or let's trial one," she said.

"Almost half the homicides in Australia are connected to domestic violence.

"It's very important to address this problem and there are very innovative ways of doing it."

She said language problems had previously made it difficult to review research into such police operations in Latin American countries, but the organisation United Nations Women had since translated much of that work into English.