Research Findings & Resources
Key Findings
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Findings from each of seven cohorts
Click to view findings from young people in out of home care:.
Click to view findings from young people with disability:.
Click to view findings from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people:.
Click to viewfindings from economically disadvantaged young people:.
Click to view findings from young people with cultural and linguistic diversity:.
Click to viewfindings from young people from the mainstream:.
Click to view findings from young people from regional and remote communities:.
The ACWP Phase One Report
By Jen Skattebol, Myra Hamilton, Grace Skrzypiec, Tammy Burnstock, Gerry Redmond, Bridget Jenkins and Kirk Dodd.
Click to view the ACWP Phase One Report:.
Resources
The ACWP Overview
Gerry Redmond, Jen Skattebol and Peter Saunders, June 2013
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Previous Related Projects by the Research Team
"Making a Difference: building on children's perspectives on economic adversity"
Funder: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 2008-2012
Team: Bettina Cass, Gerry Redmond, Jen Skattebol, Megan Bedford, Peter Saunders
Outline: The Making a Difference Project was designed to explore the perceptions of children and young people (aged between 11 and 17 years) who experience economic adversity in order to understand what it means to them, how they experience exclusion in the family, at school, and in the communities where they live, and identify what services they think can make a difference. The project adopted a rights perspective which emphasises the importance not only of listening to children, but of using their perspectives in making decisions on matters affecting them.
Over 130 interviews with children and their parents, and with teachers and service providers were analysed to explore implications for the quality, design and delivery of social, educational and other services available to young people facing economic adversity. Key themes identified in recent international research guided the development of the project and influenced how the interviews with the children and young people were conducted and how the data they produced were analysed.
The report: "Making a Difference: Building on Children's Perspectives on Economic Adversity":.
"Conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, and policy implications"
Funder: Australian Research Alliance on Children and Youth and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
Team: Gerry Redmond, Myra Hamlton, Ilan Katz
Outline: Measurement of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) presents challenges for policymakers and researchers. Measures of other phenomena such as educational development and economic wellbeing are reasonably well defined, and policymakers, researchers and the general public are comfortable with several indicators to measure progress in these areas. A number of measures of health and physical wellbeing in children and young people have also gained widespread acceptance. But prior to this project, there existed no single indicator or set of indicators relating to social and emotional aspects of human wellbeing in general, and children’s or young people’s development in particular, that was widely approved.
This project set out to prepare a report addressing two issues:
- To provide clarity on the conceptualisation and construction of SEWB and any sub-constructs, bearing in mind that they may change over the life of the child, particularly into adolescence and to identify possible key national measures/indicators based on these constructs.
- To set out the policy and practice implications of analysing and reporting on such data, assuming it was to become available.
The report develops a process for deriving a concept of SEWB, and indicators to measure that concept, so that both concept and indicators are consistent with political visions of society, and visions of children’s and young people’s place in it.
The report: "Conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, and policy implications":.
Affiliated International Projects
Children's Worlds Project: International Survey of Children's Wellbeing
Lead Organisation: International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI)
Partner investigators on the Australian Child Wellbeing Project, Jonathan Bradshaw and Sabine Andresen, are Principal Investigators on the Children's Worlds Project.
Web: http://childrensworlds.org/
Young Lives Project: An International Study of Childhood Poverty
Lead organisation: University of Oxford.
