📢The International Congress on Evidence-based Parenting Support is returning in June 2025. The theme for the online event is Parenting support: a common pathway to improving diverse outcomes for children and young people. Parenting and Family Research Alliance
Learn more 👉i-ceps.pafra.org

Community organisations play a crucial role in disaster recovery, but how can they do it even more efficiently? In their Life Course Centre Working Paper Nikita Sharma & Nathan Middlebrook from St Vincent de Paul Society Qld examine this question.
Read - bit.ly/3Ws8TpU

Congratulations to our Centre Director Janeen Baxter on being named a newly elected international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. 👏
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📢 PhD opportunity: Want to investigate effective educational pathways supporting First Nations students as they transition from primary to secondary school? This opp with Dr Potia at Queensland Brain Institute, UQ might be for you.

✍️Apply by 28 April.
👉More info: rb.gy/ig70sb

📢Join us for Families in Focus webinar.
Embedding voices of children with disability & families in research. Presented by ARACY with speakers from Qld Children's Hospital & The Brain Institute. Learn about the methodology, experiences, & key findings.
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Setting the course for the next decade.

The Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure has been released. 👇

Congratulations to Sam Mostyn AO on her appointment as Australia's next Governor General. An inspirational and dedicated advocate for gender equality. 👏

Applications are now open for two early career researchers to join Life Course Centre Director Janeen Baxter ARC Laureate Fellowship – working with a collaborative team on an exciting gender inequality project. Apply today! seek.com.au/job/74185779 #WorkAtUQ
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‘Hanging by a Thread: Our Search for Home’ a youth photovoice project by Anglicare Southern Queensland + Life Course Centre that explores young people’s experiences of home & homelessness 🏠

Find out more about this innovative project here 👇

lifecoursecentre.org.au/news/young-peo…

Highlights of 2023 Power to Persuade blog includes posts on issues affecting women, children & families from Ana Gamarra + @ColtonCambo 👇

Timely addition to our Working Paper Series on cost of homelessness in Qld 🏠💵

Cameron Parsell Dr Ella Kuskoff Nikita Sharma update 2016 study on annual cost offset of moving homeless person to permanent supportive housing

2016: $13,100
2023: $17,462

👇
lifecoursecentre.org.au/working-papers…

#UQ recipients of NHMRC Investigator Grants include Life Course Centre Chief Investigator Abdullah Mamun UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Health at UQ for his project ‘A life course approach to early detection and prevention of noncommunicable diseases in priority populations’

Congratulations to the HaBS recipients of the NHMRC's Investigator Grants scheme 🎉

➡️Dr Nagham J Ailabouni- UQ Pharmacy
➡️Dr David Klyne & Dr Kirstine Shrubsole- #UQSHRS
➡️Dr Carmen Lim- NCYSUR, UQ
➡️A/Prof Abdullah Mamun- UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
➡️Dr Nicole Marsh- #UQNMSW

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Congratulations to Centre Director Prof Prof Sharon Goldfeld for her NHMRC Investigator Grant and the opportunity it provides for redressing preventable inequities that undermine children's health, development and wellbeing.
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Life Course Centre is proud to sponsor and be research partner of Anti-Poverty Week Read all about the impact of this year's activities👇

My article 'How COVID changed the world of data' appears in the latest issue of the journal 'Australian Population Studies'. Read it: australianpopulationstudies.org/index.php/aps/…

📢 New Life Course Centre Working Paper 📢

Ferdi Botha Jan Kabátek 🇺🇦 - kabatek.bsky.social Roger Wilkins Melbourne Institute + Jordy Meekes Leiden University examine effects of changes in commuting time + working from home (WFH) on the mental health of Australian men & women 👇

lifecoursecentre.org.au/working-papers…

The latest report from the Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows that 75% of people support lifting incomes for those with the last, while fewer than 25% could live on the existing rate of JobSeeker.
bit.ly/communityattit…
#povertyinAustralia #AusPol #Raisetherateforgood

📈 62% think government policies have contributed to poverty
📉 75% think it can be solved with the right systems & policies

Learn other important findings on community attitudes towards poverty & inequality in our ACOSS partnership report ⬇️ UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-af…

#AASLE2023 was a blast!
Excellent sessions, fun keynotes, bubble tea during coffee breaks, the motivational (ehm) coffee mug, and the glorious city of Taipei.

I presented our new WP showing that work-from-home arrangements can lead to large improvements of women's mental health