Staff papers and presentations

Recent presentations by AIFS staff are listed below with links to abstracts, the complete paper, or slides from powerpoint presentations.

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2007

Baxter, J., & Alexander, M. (2007, 11-13 July). Mothers' work-family strain in single and couple parent families: the role of job characteristics and suports (PDF 467 KB). Australian Social Policy Conference 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Baxter, J., & Hayes, A. (2007, 5-8 July). Days of their lives: Developmental implications and correlates of how four year olds spend their time (PDF 780 KB). Australasian Human Development Association conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Baxter, J., Gray, M., & Alexander, M. (2007, 3-4 December). Working families’ use of child care (PDF 981 KB). LSAC conference, Melbourne.
Baxter, J., Qu, L., & Weston, R. (2007, 3-4 December). Family structure, quality of the co-parental relationship, post-separation parenting and children’s socio-emotional wellbeing (PDF 2.8 MB). LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Bromfield, L. M. & Holzer, P. J. (2007, 30 October - 2 November). International approaches to child protection: How is Australia positioned? 11th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, “Voices Calling for Action”, Gold Coast, Queensland.
Bromfield, L. M. & Holzer, P. J. (2007, 30 October - 2 November). Bridging the research-practice divide: A symposium. 11th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, “Voices Calling for Action”, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland.
de Vaus, D., Gray, M., Qu, L., & Stanton, D. (2007, July). Divorce and wellbeing of older Australians. Paper presented at the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney.
Edwards, B., & Bromfield, L. (2007, 11-13 July). Neighbourhood influences on young children’s emotional and behavioural problems and prosocial behavior: Evidence from an Australian national sample. 10th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney.
Edwards, B., Higgins, D., & Zmijewski, N. (2007, 25-29 September). Families caring for a person with a disability: The experience and timing of depressive episodes of carers, people with a disability and other family members. 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Edwards, B., Higgins, D. & Zmijewski, N. (2007, 11-13 July). The social lives of carers. 10th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney.
Edwards, B., Higgins, D., & Zmijewski, N. (2007). Carers’ mental health: National data on families caring for a person with a disability. Social Policy Research Services Conference, Canberra.
Edwards, B., Higgins, D., & Zmijewski, N. (2007, 25-29 September). Carers’ mental health: National data on families caring for a person with a disability. 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Edwards, B., Sawyer, M., & Pfeiffer, S. (2007, 3-4 December). Pathways of neighbourhood influences through the family: How do neighbourhood social processes influence young children’s emotional and behavioural problems? (PDF 6.5 MB) LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Gray, M., & Baxter, J. (2007, 3-4 December). The financial consequences of relationship breakdown and repartnering among families with young children (PDF 1.5 MB). LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Gray, M., & Smart, D. (2007, 3-4 December). Overview of LSAC. LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Gray, M., Qu, L., & Weston, R. (2007, September). Fertility and family policy in Australia (PDF 929 KB). A previous version of this paper was presented to the policy forum 'Facing the Future: Policy Challenges in the Ageing Era', Seoul, Korea, 13-14 September 2006.
Hand, K. (2007, 2 August). Overview of the Service Provision Project. 2nd Biennial FRSP Conference, Melbourne.
Hayes, A., Gray, M., & Baxter (2007, 20-21 June). The Wellbeing of families: Conceptual issues and unique insights from Growing up in Australia (PDF 2.0 MB). National Family Wellbeing Symposium, Canberra.
Hawkins, M., Sanson, A., & LSAC Outcome Index Working Group. (2007, 3-4 December). The structure and validation of an index of child development. LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Hayes, A. (2007, November). Creating child friendly communities: challenges and contradictions (PDF 1.3 MB). Address presented to the NAPCAN Annual General Meeting, Lady Gowrie Child Care Centre, North Carlton, Vic.
Higgins, D. J. (2007, 31 October). Responding to allegations of child abuse in Family Court proceedings: Evaluation of the Magellan Project 2007. 11th Australian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Gold Coast, Qld.
Higgins, D., Edwards, B., & Zmijewski, N. (2007, 25-29 September). Carers’ mental health: National data on families caring for a person with a disability. 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Higgins, J. R. (2007, 3-5 August). Promising practices in the assessment, training and support of Indigenous carers and Indigenous young people in care: Findings from a national study. CROCCS (Centre for Research on Community and Children’s Services) International Conference, “Overcoming Violence & Poverty”, Mackay.
Higgins, J. R., (2007, 25 July). Recruiting, assessing, training and supporting carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Paper presented at the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare Foster Care Recruitment Best Practice Engagement Project Forum.
Irenyi, M. I. (2007, 5-7 October). Child maltreatment in organisations. Australian Foster Care Association Conference, Melbourne.
Kaspiew, R. (2007, 14 September). Parental attitudes and children’s interests. Queensland Law Society’s Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Lodge, J. (2007, 25-29 September). Cyber-bullying in schools: How do our adolescents cope? 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Lodge, J. (2007, 25-29 September). School engagement in the Middle Years. 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane.
Moloney, L. (2007, 4 October). Parents in separation and divorce-related conflict: The long road (in Australia) towards acknowledging “the best interests of the child”. International Social Services Conference, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Moloney, L., Smyth, B., & Weston, R. (2007, 10 August). Allegations of family violence and child abuse in the context of family law children’s proceedings. Plenary paper, Family Court of Australia Judges’ Annual Conference, Melbourne.
Moloney, L., Smyth, B., & Weston, R. (2007, 3 August). Allegations of family violence and child abuse in the context of family law children’s proceedings. Plenary paper, Legal Aid Commission of NSW Family Law Conference, Sydney.
Morrison, Z. (2007, 27 September). Member of a panel to discuss restorative justice and sexual offences at the Victimology Conference, “Alternative Approaches to Justice: Are victims better off?”, Australian Society of Victimology and the South Australian Government’s Attorney-General’s Department, Adelaide.
Morrison, Z. (2007, 9 September). Understanding sexual assault and abuse in the church: An Australian case study. Plenary presentation, conference of the Forensic and Medical Sexual Assault Clinicians Australia, Melbourne.
Parker, R. (2007, 7 October). Trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation. TEAMS Conference, Melbourne.
Parker, R. (2007, 20-22 September). Overview of AFRC functions. Marriage and Relationship Education National Conference, Perth.
Qu, L., & Weston, R. (2007, 6 July). Families: Changing patterns and health behaviours. Invited paper, Child Public Health Elective 2007 Program, Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Qu, L., Weston, R., & Parker, R. (2007, 11-13 July). Financial circumstances of divorced mothers relative to married mothers: Is the gap narrowing? Australian Social Policy Conference, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Quadara, A. (2007, 26 September). Occupational health and safety and violence prevention in sex work. Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Adelaide.
Smart, D., & Sanson, A. (2007, 3-4 December). Do today’s Australian children have more problems than they did twenty years ago? (PDF 6.7 MB) LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Smith, J., & Baxter, J. (2007, 3-4 December). Comparison of time use data in the LSAC and Time Use Survey of New Mothers (TUSNM) to identify breastfeeding patterns and the influence of various background variables. LSAC Conference, Melbourne.
Smyth, B., Moloney, L. Weston, R., & Richardson, N. (2007, 19-20 July). Changes in patterns of post-separation parenting over time. HILDA Survey Research Conference 2007, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Smyth, B., Richardson, N., Moloney, L., & Weston, R. (2007, 11-13 July). Changes in patterns of post-separation parenting over time. Australian Social Policy Conference, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Soloff, C. (2007, 26-27 October). Breastfeeding and children’s outcomes. Child, Adolescent and Family Health Conference, Noosa, Qld.
Soloff, C. (2007, 11-13 July). The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: Latest information. 10th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney.
Soloff, C. (2007, 5-8 July). An update on Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Weston, R., & Hayes, A. (2007, 19 November). Update of the Institute’s Family Law Program. Presentation to Chief Justice’s Family Law Forum, Melbourne.
Weston R., & Qu, L. (2007, 7 September). Families in Australia: Continuities and change. Invited paper, Local Government Professionals (LGRPro) Family, Youth and Children’s Services Conference, Melbourne.
Weston R., & Qu, L. (2007, 20 August). Family transitions and relationships in Australia. Invited paper, Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Weston, R., & Qu, L. (2007, 17 July). Trends in couple formation and dissolution. Invited paper, Separation Support Network workshop, ANU, Canberra.