The Graduate Certificate of Family Violence Prevention is designed to support social transformation for a violence free future and will build your skills in a range of practice areas including child safety, men's behaviour change, health impacts of family violence, family violence in the criminal justice system and working with victims and survivors.
24 scholarships are available for family violence victim-survivors. These scholarships have been supported in recognition of the need to increase opportunities for victim-survivors to pursue academic qualifications with the goal of entering family violence policy, practice or advocacy roles.
These Graduate Certificate scholarships are funded as part of a Victorian Government program of research led by the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (MGFVPC). The MGFVPC is at the forefront of research and education aimed at preventing domestic and family violence. The Centre is contributing to transformative social change aimed at ending all form of domestic and family violence by providing an evidence base for policy change i) to better support and protect those experiencing family violence; and ii) address the cultural and economic drivers that underpin it.
The successful applicants will complete the Monash Graduate Certificate of Family Violence Prevention in 2022. The Graduate Certificate of Family Violence Prevention includes four units, all delivered in fully flexible mode:
- APG4223 Gender and Family Violence
- APG4224 Gender, Family Violence and Criminal Justice Responses
- APG5076 Health and Family Violence
- APG5075 Using Data to understand Family Violence
The four units provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields addressing family violence prevention.
The successful scholarship holders will enrol as a cohort and will be offered access to a range of professional development opportunities, including training, peer mentoring, and research seminars. The scholarship holders will benefit from teaching provided by research leaders in domestic and family violence, policy and practice reform, primary prevention and gender equality.
Monash University is the largest university in Australia and regularly ranks in the top 100 universities worldwide. Monash has six globally networked campuses and international alliances in Europe and Asia. The applicant will be based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne. Social Science at Monash is diverse and vibrant, including research expertise in geography, sociology, politics and sustainability transitions. We have a strong and supportive research culture, led by internationally recognised scholars successful in attracting national and international competitive funding.
