Mō mātou
Our people
Juanita Rojas
Shama Ethnic Women's Centre
University of Auckland
Dr Lucy Langston
Ministry of Social Development
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Professor Jennifer Curtin
University of Auckland
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Debbie Hager
Disability Abuse Prevention and Response, Visable
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Paulette Benton-Greig
Auckland University of Technology
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Melanie Beres
University of Otago
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Rob Thomson
University of Otago
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Sheryl Hann
Te Puna Aonui
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Sandra Dickson
Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Pauline Gulliver
Te Tāhū Hauora | Health Quality & Safety Commission
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Logan Hamley
Whakauae Research Services
Ngāti Rangi, Whanganui
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Stacey Porter
Whāraurau
Ngai Takoto; Ngāti Kahu; Ngāpuhi; Rongowhakaata; Ngāti Maru
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Rolinda Karapu
Te Rau Ora
Ngāti Pukeko; Ngāti Awa; Ngai Tūhoe; Ngai Tai ki Torere; Ngāti Porou
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Dr Michael Roguski
Kaitiaki Research
Te Āti Awa; Ngāti Tūwharetoa
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Kerri Donoghue-Cox
Ministry of Social Development
Ngāti Mutunga
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Helen Pearse-Otene
Independent
Ngāpuhi; Ngāti Rongomaiwahine-Kahungunu; Ngāti Ruanui
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.
Professor Tracey McIntosh
University of Auckland
Ngai Tūhoe
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.

Caleb Lloyd
Programme Coordinator
Caleb has been the Programme Coordinator for Vine (formerly the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse) since August 2023.
As the Programme Coordinator, Caleb is responsible for managing the administrative responsibilities of the organisation. He also manages the Vine Calendar and works on the Vine short form content including Vine Quick Reads.
Before working for Vine, Caleb worked in the Counties Manukau Whāngaia Ngā Pā Harakeke team at the NZ Police where he worked closely with the SAM tables and community organisations. He has also worked in the mental health sector as a support worker for a respite service.
Caleb completed his BA in Sociology and Social Sciences for Public Health before going on to complete his Honours (First Class) in Sociology. He has also recently completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Health Sciences with a focus on violence prevention.

Eilish Draper
Policy Lead
Eilish is the Policy Lead at Vine.
In this role, she writes news stories and other content for Vine, monitors media sources for news, events, and opportunities, and connects with others in the sector.
She has a background in family violence policy, strategy and research.
Eilish holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences with a focus on violence prevention and a Master of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington.

Gay Richards
Information Specialist
Gay is the Information Specialist at Vine. In this role she is responsible for managing the Vine library and online database, as well as keeping resources in the Knowledge Hub up to date. She is the first point of contact if you need information about family violence or sexual violence. She is passionate about promoting the importance of accessible information and services for D/deaf, whaikaha Māori and disabled people and is a member of several disability advisory groups within the family violence and sexual violence sectors.
She has many years of experience as a librarian/information specialist, managing specialist libraries and information centres in the health and business sectors and was part of the team when the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse (now Vine) moved to the University of Auckland in 2011.
Gay has a Master of Library and Information Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr Charlotte Moore
Kaiwhakahaere
Rangitāne o Wairau
Charlotte has held the role of Kaiwhakahaere at Vine (formerly the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse) since December 2020.
Her PhD in sociology, completed at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, focused on how the National-led government’s (2008-2017) social investment approach impacted the provision, funding and regulation of social services in Aotearoa. Alongside family violence, her research interests include community sector/government relationships, state policy impacting Māori and Whānau Ora.
Prior to completing her PhD, Charlotte worked with WAVES Trust as a research analyst and family violence network coordinator. Here she was involved in collaborative violence prevention initiatives including Working together to achieve whānau wellbeing in Waitematā.
Charlotte was a member of Kaitiaki Rōpū, the working group that helped to establish Te Pūkotahitanga, the Tangata Whenua Ministerial Advisory Group for Family Violence and Sexual Violence in 2022. She is also a member of Matatuhi, a tangata whenua working group established to explore mechanisms to uplift kaimahi Māori working across the family violence and sexual violence sectors.

Professor Janet Fanslow
Chief Advisor
The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse was launched in 2005 in association with Te Rito: New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy. Te Rito was developed in 2002 as a plan of action to reduce and eliminate family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, we held an event to mark 10 years of the Clearinghouse.

Professor Nicola Gavey
Academic Co-Director - Tauiwi
Nicola Gavey is a professor in the School of Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. After beginning work in the sexual violence sector as a crisis counsellor in the 1980s, and training as a clinical psychologist, she has worked primarily in research and teaching.
She has collaborated with researchers in New Zealand and overseas on a wide range of projects related to both intimate partner and sexual violence. Her main area of research explores the ways sexual coercion, exploitation and violence are enabled and minimized through taken-for-granted gendered norms and power dynamics. In recent years, she has published on technologically mediated forms of abuse, including prevention initiatives; and trends towards the mainstreaming of aggression within everyday sexual scripts.
Her research has been funded through the Marsden Fund, the Health Research Council of New Zealand, the Australian Research Council, and Fulbright, which supported her as a Visiting Scholar at the Victims of Violence programme, Harvard Medical School.

Dr Terry Dobbs
Academic Co-Director - Māori
Ngāpuhi; Te Rarawa
Dr Terry Dobbs is from the Northern tribes of Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa, and the McKenzie clan of Scotland. Terry has worked in the fields of sexual abuse, forensic interviewing, child protection, and promoting children and young people’s agency; and has worked in academic, statutory, community and Iwi settings. Terry is a registered Social Worker. She has experience in kaupapa Māori research and has extensive networks within these settings.
Terry has been the principal investigator on several projects on reducing and preventing violence within taitamariki Māori intimate partner relationships in the context of their whānau, hapū and iwi.
Terry has published in the areas of indigenous approaches to well-being (oranga), practice frameworks for mokopuna and whānau well-being, Indigenous research methods, Te Ao Māori approaches to evaluation, Māori-centred social work practice, youth suicide prevention and promoting children’s agency.
Vine team

Kaiwhakahaere
Rangitāne o Wairau

Academic Co-Director - Māori
Ngāpuhi; Te Rarawa

Academic Co-Director - Tauiwi

Policy Lead

Information Specialist

Programme Coordinator
Māori advisory group
Dr Logan Hamley
Whakauae Research Services
Ngāti Rangi, Whanganui
Stacey Porter
Whāraurau
Ngai Takoto; Ngāti Kahu; Ngāpuhi; Rongowhakaata; Ngāti Maru
Rolinda Karapu
Waikato Tainui
Ngāti Pukeko; Ngāti Awa; Ngai Tūhoe; Ngai Tai ki Torere; Ngāti Porou
Dr Michael Roguski
Kaitiaki Research
Te Āti Awa; Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Kerri Donoghue-Cox
Ministry of Social Development
Ngāti Mutunga
Helen Pearse-Otene
Independent
Ngāpuhi; Ngāti Rongomaiwahine-Kahungunu; Ngāti Ruanui
Professor Tracey McIntosh
University of Auckland
Ngai Tūhoe
Tauiwi advisory group
Juanita Rojas
Shama Ethnic Women's Centre
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
Dr Lucy Langston
Te Manatū Whakahiato Ora | Ministry of Social Development
Professor Jennifer Curtin
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
Dr Debbie Hager
Disability Abuse Prevention and Response, VisAble
Paulette Benton-Greig
Auckland University of Technology
Dr Melanie Beres
Ōtāko Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago
Dr Rob Thomson
Brainwave Trust
Sheryl Hann
Te Puna Aonui
Sandra Dickson
Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence
Dr Pauline Gulliver
Te Tāhū Hauora | Health Quality & Safety Commission
Professor Janet Fanslow (Chief Advisor)
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland