Staff Profile

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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

Presentations

See also Staff papers and presentations