Our Research

Our research is undertaken by a diverse multidisciplinary team.

Researchers bring different disciplinary understandings to the Centre from sociology, psychology, social policy, economics, education, law, health, business, and environmental science.

Our research covers a wide range of issues that impact on children and young people's rights and wellbeing. These include disability, family law, loss and grief, teacher learning, out of home care, consumerism, technology, relationships, belonging and connection, abuse and neglect, childhood cultures, play, transition to school, climate change and environment.

Respecting the human dignity of children and young people is central to our work. This calls for constant attention to ethics, not only in regard to the research we conduct but also through our overall engagement with children and young people and with the different contexts in which they live their lives.

Ethical Research and Practice

Ethical Research

• The International ERIC Project – Ethical Research Involving Children
• The MESSI Project –Involving Children in Social Research: Balancing the Risks an

Ethical Practice

• Investigating Individual Advocacy Services for Children and Young People
• The EPIC Project - Beyond Safety: Ethical Practice Involving Children
• Feeling Safe, Being Safe: What is Important about Safety in Institutional Setti

Schools

Wellbeing in Schools

• Improving Wellbeing Through Student Participation at School
• Meditation in Schools
• Children’s Participation and Wellbeing Through Greenspaces
• Improving Approaches to Wellbeing in Schools: What Role Does Recognition Play?
• Safe at School? Safety and Harm of Students with Cognitive Disability In and Around Schools

Improving Education

• Strengthening Approaches to Parent Partnership in Schools
• Learning Catalysts: Improving Educational Outcomes for Disadvantaged Children
• Teachers’ Professional Boundary Transgressions

Family

Family Law

• Facilitating the Participation of Children in Family Law Processes

Understanding Change, Loss and Grief

• Seasons for Growth® Loss and Grief Education Programs

Family Violence

• Mothers and Children with Disability Using Violence Prevention and Early Interve
• What Does it Take Access for Women and Young Women with Disabilities to Domestic

Community

Building Inclusion

• Relationships and Recognition: Support Relationships between Young People with Cognitive Disability and Support Workers
• Preventing Abuse, Promoting Personal Safety for Young People with Disability
• Space, Place and Relationships: Belonging and Connection in Regional Communities
• Employment Model Outcomes for People with Intellectual Disability
• Evaluation of the CREATE Ability 2 Project (TAP2)
• Telling Your Story: Evaluation of the Community Inclusion Initiative
• Evaluation of My Choice Matters

Growing up with Tourism

• Doofing and the Politics of Survival in the Byron Shire
• Voices from the Margin: Youth, Identity and Belonging in a Tourist Destination