Staff Profile
Jennifer Renda
Senior Research Officer
BA(Hons) (Monash)
Biography
Jennifer Renda joined the Australian Institute of Family Studies as a Research Officer in 2002 after completing her BA with Honours in Professional Social Research at Monash University.
Jennifer’s research activities have focused primarily on issues relating to families and employment, with particular interest in mothers’ employment decisions, patterns of employment for lone and couple mothers, the interaction between paid employment and income support and policies that support mothers’ after the birth of children.
After a short period working with the AIFS team evaluating the recent reforms to the family law system, Jennifer has returned to working in the area of work and family and has been appointed a Senior Research Officer.
Selected recent publications
- Renda, J., Baxter, J., & Alexander, M. (2009). Exploring the work-family policies mothers say would help after the birth of a child. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 12, No. 1 2009, pp 65-87.
- Renda, J. (2007). Employment aspirations of non-working mothers with long-term health problems (Research paper no.40). Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
- Gray, M. Qu, L., Renda, J., & de Vaus D. (2006). Changes in the Labour Force Status of Lone and Couple Australian Mothers, 1983-2005. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 9(4), 395-416.
- Gray, M., & Renda, J. (2006). Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high? (Research Paper No. 37). Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
- Renda, J., & Gray, M. (2004). The Value Mothers Place on paid work and their feelings of life control. Family Matters, 68, 76-83.
- Gray, M., Qu, L., Renda, J., & de Vaus, D. (2003). Changes in the labour force status of lone and couple Australian mothers, 1983-2002 (Research paper no.33). Melbourne, Vic: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
- Renda, J. (2003). Polarisation of families according to work status. Where does part-time employment fit in? Family Matters, 64, 17-21.
Presentations
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