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Tammy Burnstock
Researcher
+61 2 9385 7838
MA UNSW
Research Officer, Social Policy Research Centre
Tammy Burnstock has a background in children’s media and, in parallel, work in early intervention with children and families. She has completed a Masters by Research exploring the role of volunteer Home Visiting services in support of vulnerable families. Her interests lie in the areas of volunteer and community based support and in encouraging and facilitating the voices of children in research. She is currently working on the Australian Child Wellbeing Project – towards ‘a good life’ for all children in their middle years and as a Circle of Support facilitator for JewishCare.
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Mr Kirk Dodd
PhD Candidate
k.dodd@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 6025
BA (Hons) UNSW
Research Officer, Social Policy Research Centre
Kirk Dodd completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature at the University of New South Wales in 2012. Prior to this, he has obtained a Diploma in Performance Art at the Actor's College of Theatre and Television (Sydney) and worked in a variety of roles in the media and performance industries. His interests lie in research and writing across various media formats, and working with children in creative contexts including drama. He is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW, and working on the Australian Child Wellbeing Project – towards ‘a good life’ for all children in their middle years.
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Dr Myra Hamilton
Researcher
m.hamilton@unsw.edu.au
+61 29385 5504
BA (Hons); PhD, Syd
Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre
Myra Hamilton joined the Social Policy Research Centre as a Research Associate in October 2008. Her main research interests and subjects of publication are retirement incomes policy, welfare reform, the service needs and experiences of people with caring responsibilities, and the perceptions and management of social risks over the lifecourse. Since commencing work at the Centre in 2008, she has worked on a number of government-commissioned evaluations including the NSW Carers Action Plan Evaluation Framework and the evaluation of the Building Capacity in Community Mental Health, Family Support and Carer Respite Program. She has also worked on projects on the political and social economy of care, child wellbeing, and on an ARC-funded project on the experiences and service needs of young carers. Her PhD was a comparative study on retirement incomes policy in Australia and Britain and she maintains a strong interest in social policy in Britain. She has held an honorary position at the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender at the University of Surrey in the UK (2007) and in 2011 was a Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Bristol.
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Dr Bridget Jenkins
PhD Candidate
b.jenkins@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 5795
BA Macquarie, BA (Hons) Syd
Research Officer, Social Policy Research Centre
Bridget Jenkins completed a journalism degree at Macquarie University in 2007, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Sydney in 2008. She is currently working on her PhD under an APAI scholarship funded by the ARC Linkage grant project ‘Grandparents as Primary Carers of their Grandchildren: A National, State and Territory Analysis’. Her thesis is on the effects of family power on Australian grandmothers’ carework, focusing on the family dynamics, patterns of negotiation, and inter-family decision making processes which lead to the provision of extensive care. Her research interests are feminism, care, motherhood and the welfare state.
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Dr Helen Popple
School of Social and Policy Studies
Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042
helen.popple@flinders.edu.au
+61 8 8201 5005
Helen Popple completed an undergraduate MA(Hons) at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) in Sustainable Development in 2009, going on to complete a PhD in Public Health Medicine at the same institution. Her thesis titled “A Mixed Methods Investigation of Perceptions of Adulthood and Gender: links to stereotyped and risky behaviours amongst young people in Kirkcaldy, Fife” explored how young people consider their own developing identities in relation to perceived risk behaviours and cultural stereotypes. This work was funded by the Scottish Government Equally Well initiative to tackle health inequalities. In 2012 Helen was awarded further funding by the Scottish Government to enable knowledge exchange around some of the potentially important findings of the study. Helen’s interests centre on the theme of social justice and perceptions of justice: structural societal inequality, human rights, gender and violence.
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Associate Professor Gerry Redmond
Chief Investigator
gerry.redmond@flinders.edu.au
+61 8 8201 2699
BSocSc Dublin, GradDipComp, MA Bath, PhD UNSW
Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management
Associate Professor Gerry Redmond joined the School of Social and Policy Studies in February 2012. Prior to that he worked at the Social Policy Research Centre, the University of NSW, Sydney. Has has also worked as a social policy researcher at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy (2001-2006), where he did research on children's well-being in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, at the Department of Applied Economics, the University of Cambridge, UK (1992-1997), and for the UK Department of Social Security (now the Department of Work and Pensions). The main focus of his research is measurement of, and analysis of policies relating to child poverty and well-being in Australia and in other countries, with a particular focus on poverty and inequality, child rights, and children’s own perspectives on their well-being.
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Professor Peter Saunders
Chief Investigator
p.saunders@unsw.edu.au
+ 61 29385 7806
BSc DipEc S'ton., PhD Syd., FASSA
Research Professor in Social Policy, Social Policy Research Centre
Peter Saunders was the Director of the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) from February 1987 until July 2007, and now holds a Research Chair in Social Policy within the Centre. His research interests include poverty and income distribution, household needs and living standards, social security reform, comparative social policy and ageing and social protection in China. His recent books include The Ends and Means of Welfare. Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2002), The Poverty Wars, Reconnecting Research with Reality and (with James Walter) Ideas and Influence. Social Science and Public Policy in Australia (both published by UNSW Press in 2005). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1995, and is currently an Australian Professorial Fellow working on the concepts and measurement of poverty and inequality, and on deprivation and social exclusion in Australia. He has worked as a consultant for a range of national and international organisations, including the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the OECD, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank, the International Social Security Association, and the Royal Commission on Social Policy in New Zealand. He was appointed a Sciential Professor by UNSW in 2006, in recognition of his research contribution and eminence. He was elected President of the Foundation for international Studies on Social Security (FISS) in June 2009. Professor Saunders was elected as the inaugural President of the Australian Social Policy Association.
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Dr Jen Skattebol
Chief Investigator
j.skattebol@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 7816
Dip Ed (EC), B.Ed., PhD
Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre
Jen Skattebol conducts policy relevant research related to the lives of children, young people and their families. She has expertise in the design of methodologies which are sensitive to the politics of marginalisation, and in incorporating educational and capacity building elements in research design. Dr Skattebol has experience teaching in early childhood and primary settings and spent 10 years as a teaching academic in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney. In 2008, she was awarded a Creswick Foundation Scholarship to investigate the leadership challenges in integrated service provision. She has recently completed a major project Making a Difference: Young people's experiences of economic adversity.
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Dr Grace Skrzypiec
Researcher
grace.skrzypiec@flinders.edu.au
+61 8 82012934
B.Sc (Hons) (Adelaide), Grad Dip Ed (Adelaide), M.Ed (Adelaide), PhD (Flinders)
Research Associate, Flinders University
Grace Skrzypiec joined the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, in September 2012. She has an interest in student and offender wellbeing and she works collaboratively in this area with other researchers locally, nationally and internationally. She has been involved with the qualitative data collection and analysis of the KidsMatter evaluation and with the data collection and statistical data analysis of a bullying intervention, in Australia and in Greece. Her background includes research on adolescent health with CSIRO and with adolescent offenders at the Office of Crime Statistics and Research (OCSAR) in South Australia. A former high school teacher her interest in adolescent well-being continues to be the major focus of her research and she is a member of the Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Research Centre at Flinders University.
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