A5060716835- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Disaster Response and Management
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Community Health and Development
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Resilience and Mental Health
The University of Melbourne
2018-2024
Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management
2018
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2016
A discussion on the ethical context and barriers to include children’s voices in research clarify role of Research Ethic Committees. Twenty-one researchers from eight countries participated two focus groups ten individual in-depth interviews. The results highlight need for reforming regulations facilitate greater more meaningful participation children adolescent research. This reform, however, requires a paradigm shift balance notions protecting adolescents harm with empowerment autonomy.
Participation of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in public health research is often limited by challenges with recruitment, retention second-language data collection. Consequently, CALD are at risk their needs being marginalised interventions. This paper presents intrinsic case analyses two studies which were adapted to increase the cultural competence processes. Both cases part Optimise study, a major mixed methods study Australia provided evidence...
Abstract The field of participatory research with children developed largely thanks to shared learning between different cultures, places, and disciplines. However, grand narratives power relationships in academia inherited from colonialism imperialism can threaten obstruct the transformative value this approach. In article, we present case Think Big, a multinational collaboration for that involved adult child coresearchers Australia, Chile, Colombia, United Kingdom. Our aim was explore how...
Purpose Bereavement through parental intimate partner homicide (IPH) is a unique form of complex trauma that may disrupt and destabilise identity in surviving children. This qualitative study aimed to generate better understanding post-homicide experiences needs the context improve support for these neglected victim-survivors.
Abstract Purpose To develop a socio-ecological understanding of the immediate and long-term effects on, needs of, children young people (CYP) in UK Ireland bereaved by parental intimate partner homicide (IPH). Method The study draws on in-depth interviews from three different informants: those with lived experience (LE) (10); caregivers (12); professionals (10). In addition to 10 maternal IPH, experiences discussed include further 23 cases bereavement due IPH during childhood (when aged...
Abstract Purpose Losing a parent due to intimate partner homicide is traumatic experience, exacerbated by and the associated grief being taboo in many western cultures. This study investigated experiences of young people adults bereaved parental during childhood, gain better understanding how they make sense share their personal story after such loss. Methods Within context larger study, we conducted twelve semi-structured interviews with lived experience deaths Australia used narrative...
Children and young people (henceforth referred to as people) are one of the groups most affected by climate change at forefront action. Yet, there is scarce evidence on how navigate challenges presented using their personal strengths resources accessible them. This study aimed address this gap drawing qualitative data from workshops with 31 between 12 22 years age metropolitan Melbourne a bushfire-risk region in Victoria, Australia. An inductive thematic analysis workshop transcripts showed...
Internationally, there is growing recognition of the scale and consequences intimate partner homicides (IPH). A significant, though often neglected consequence how many children are impacted by these tragic events. In such challenging circumstances, need stability, continuity trusted people they can rely on for support. This paper aims to understand best provide school-based support following parental IPH investigating experiences affected children, their caregivers professionals with...
This qualitative study highlights how people bereaved due to parental intimate partner homicide relate themselves and the world in meaningful trauma-specific ways.
INTRODUCTION: Natural disasters impact people’s lives and communities. There are several actions to promote collective memory following a disaster; the memorial is one of them. Like Chile, Japan has high exposure natural hazards, which led an intense exchange experiences. OBJECTIVE: To explore characteristics functions Japan's disaster memorials. METHODS: A total 13 memorials, corresponding three major last 100 years in were analyzed: Kanto (1923), Hanshin-Awaji (1995) Tohoku (2011). They...
Introduction: Natural disasters have increased over the last decades. As world population is also ageing, older people become more exposed to disasters, with United Nations highlighting critical role of healthcare infrastructure in disaster contexts. Traditionally, research on resilience has focused mainly disasters’ negative effects as a vulnerable group, and there scarce engineering that incorporates people’s needs experiences group capable resilient. This project responds lack assessment...