Staff Profile
Catherine Caruana
Senior Research Officer
BA (Monash), LLB (Monash)
Biography
Catherine Caruana joined the Institute in 2002 after working as a family lawyer, mediator and community development lawyer in the legal aid and community legal centre sector. She completed an arts/law degree at Monash University in 1986.
Catherine’s research activities at the Institute have centred on issues related to post-separation parenting, involving work on the Caring for Children after Separation project and the Legislation and Courts Project within the Evaluation of the family law reforms conducted by AIFS. She is currently working on the Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse team and contributes a regular column in Family Matters on developments in family law.
Selected recent publications
- Caruana, C. (2007). Snapshots from the Family Relationship Centres album. Family Matters, 77, 33-38.
- Smyth, B., Caruana. C., & Ferro, A. (2004). Father-child contact after separation: profiling five different patterns of care. Family Matters, 67, 20-27.
- Smyth, B., Caruana. C., & Ferro, A. (2004). Parent-child contact and post separation parenting arrangements (Research Report No. 9). Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
- Smyth, B., Caruana. C., & Ferro, A. (2003, 9-11 July). Some whens, hows and whys of shared care: What separated parents who spend equal time with their children say about parenting. (PDF 293 KB) Paper presented at the SPRC, Australian Social Policy Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.