Dr Tania de Villiers
Tania de Villiers is a registered Nurse and Midwife, who has lived and worked in private and public health settings in South Africa. She has additional qualifications in Paediatric Nursing, Nursing Education and Nursing Management. She holds a PhD in Nursing, and recipient of the Golden Key Honour Society. She is the current head of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Cape Town.
She is actively involved in Nursing Education, and convenes courses in the PGDip Nursing, PGDip Midwifery and Masters coursework. She was the curriculum lead in development of the new PGDip in Nursing and PGDip in Midwifery programmes.
Her research focus is broadly on Gender-Based violence and its intersection with mental health, with a specific focus on prevention interventions with young men in the university residence system. She developed the Men with Conscience primary prevention intervention for use in university male student residences to prevent sexual violence, which is being tested in a pilot RCT. She is committed to primary prevention of sexual violence and improving the well-being of men and women. Tania published a number of papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She is also a reviewer for PlosOne, African Journal of Disability Studies, NRF, SAMRC and scientific peer reviewer for the GCVP-Network, school of public health at UCLA.
She has presented papers at many national and international conferences. Through her conference engagements, she established national and international networks and collaborations, e.g. SAMRC, Sonke Gender Justice Network, the UCLA Global Campus Violence Prevention Network (GCVP Network) and Emory University. She was the recipient of the Women’s Health, gender and empowerment Centre of excellence (WHGE COE) grant from the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, she is a board member of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI) and the Sigma Teta Tau international Nurses Honour society.
Qualifications:
PhD UCT
MSc (Nursing) UCT
PGDip Nursing Education UNISA
PGDip Nursing Management UNISA
PGDip Paediatric Nursing Science Nico Malan Nursing College and Red Cross Children’s Hospital
BSc (Nursing) – RN, RM, RCHN, RPN UCT
Publications:
2021: Karisa, A., McKenzie, J. & de Villiers, T., 2021. “It’s a school but it’s not a school”: Understanding father involvement in the schooling of children with intellectual disabilities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI:10.1080/13603116.2021.1980123. [Link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2021.
2021: Karisa, A., McKenzie J. & de Villiers, T., 2021. “Their status will be affected by that child”: Masculinity and father involvement in the education of learners with intellectual disabilities. Child: Care, Health and Development, 1-8. DOI: 10.1111/cch.12864. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cch.
2021: Likumbo, N., de Villiers, T. & Kyriacos, U., 2021. Malawian mothers’ experiences, perceptions and understanding of having children living with albinism: A qualitative descriptive study. Afr. j. disabil. (Online) [online]. 2021, vol.10, pp.1-11. ISSN 2226-7220. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v10i0.693.
2021: de Villiers T., Duma S. & Abrahams, N., 2021. “As young men we have a role to play in preventing sexual violence”: Development and relevance of the Men with Conscience intervention to prevent sexual violence. PLosONE 16(1):e0244550. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244550.
2020: Karisa, A., McKenzie, J. & de Villiers, T, 2020. “To what extent is the schooling system willing to change to include disabled children?”. Disability and Society, DOI:10.1080/09687599.2020.1809351.
2020: de Villiers, T & Abrahams, N., 2020. Testing the Acceptability and Feasibility of the Men with Conscience Sexual Violence Prevention Intervention in a Pilot-RCT at Two Universities in the Western Cape. Global Qualitative Nursing Research Volume 7: 1–79 © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI:10.1177/233339362093249.
2016: de Villiers, T. 2016. Engaging male university student leaders in the adaptation process of the One Man Can Intervention (OMCI) to inform sexual violence prevention strategies in student residences: a case study. University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22828.
2015: Duma, S. & de Villiers, T., 2015. Clinical Forensic Nursing Skills and Competencies for quality care for victims of crime and violence. AJPHERD, 1(2):360 – 375.
2014: de Villiers,T., Mayers, P., & Khalil, D., 2014. Pre-registration nursing students’ perceptions and experiences of violence in a nursing education institution in South Africa. Nurse Education in Practice, http://dx.doi.oirg/10.1016/j.nepr.2014.08.006.
2010: de Villiers, T., Khalil, D., & Mayers, P. (2010, 27-29 October). Violence among nurse learners: a descriptive study examining nurse learners' experience of violence. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the second International Conference on Violence in the Health Sector - From Awareness to Sustainable Action, De Meervaart, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-5740-089-6.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7319-688X