Name - Renette Viljoen
Masters of Education (QUT)
Masters in Business Information Systems (TUT)
B.Business Communication (NWU)

After completing her degree in journalism and public relations, Renette ventured into the field of Information Technology and eventually completed her masters in business information systems.
Migrating to Australia, after lecturing for 11 years, she became an instructional designer and completed her masters in education.

Renette has a sound knowledge of the VET and Higher Education sector and understands the need to produce quality learning resources and research to enhance the community’s awareness of domestic and family violence.  She also has an understanding of and respect for our cultural diverse community.  By being part of a team that strives to increase knowledge and awareness of domestic and family violence, Renette has an opportunity to contribute to changing the attitudes, values and behaviours that support tolerance of domestic and family violence.

Current

• AHSS panel study: adolescent-to-parent abuse and elder abuse (with Christine Hanley, Heather Nancarrow and Annie Webster)

2010 - 2011

• Intimate partner abuse in Queensland (with Karena Burke, CQU; Stewart Lockie, ANU and Heather Nancarrow, CQU)


• Trial integrated response to domestic and family violence in Rockhampton: Client experiences and outcomes (with Heather Nancarrow).

Current

• Resources for teen dating violence will be designed to educate teenagers and increase their awareness about identifying and preventing teen dating violence, what to do if he/she is already in an abusive relationship, and how to help others that are experiencing dating violence.


• Factsheet for parents and teachers with teenagers will be designed to educate parents and teachers about identifying and preventing teen dating violence, the prevalence rates of teen dating violence, common clues that indicate a teenager may be experiencing dating violence and what parents and teachers can do to help protecting teenagers against dating violence.

Completed/Ongoing

• CDFVRe@der is a quarterly publication featuring reviews of relevant scholarly articles/reports; Centre news and activities; guest contributions; upcoming events, conferences and opportunities for training.  The aim of the Re@der is to promote awareness and challenge myths and misconceptions; to reduce deficits in domestic and family violence knowledge and literature; and to challenge broad structural barriers currently constraining progress toward a reduction in domestic and family violence.
  
  The Re@der gets distributed state-wide in hard copy and is also available in electronic form to stakeholders.  PDF versions of all editions are available here.


• Research Seminar Program (previously known as the Distinguished Visitors Seminar Program) aims to facilitate interaction between domestic and family violence researchers and Queensland’s domestic and family violence prevention sector, as well as to increase the domestic and family violence prevention sector’s access to an evidence base to support and guide practice.
  
  CDFVR organises forums and professional development opportunities including periodic presentations by visiting scholars and distinguished visitors, which are broadcast using video-conferencing facilities to nine (9) sites throughout metropolitan, rural and regional Queensland.  Most of the papers presented are posted onto the Centre’s website, and in many cases DVD recordings of the seminars are available at no cost.

• Nancarrow, H., Burke, K., Lockie, S., Viljoen, R. And Choudhury, J (2011) "Intimate partner abuse of women in Queensland", Research Report. CDFVR, Central Queensland University


• Nancarrow, H. and Viljoen, R (2011) "Breaking the Cycle – Trial Integrated Response to Domestic and Family Violence: Client Experiences and Outcomes", Research Report. CDFVR, Central Queensland University.