Emma McKenzie is a Research Fellow with the Griffith Criminology Institute and an Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UNSW Sydney. She is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work adopts criminological and psychological approaches to understanding key policy issues in child protection. Emma obtained her PhD in 2023. Prior to this, she worked for five years in non-government support services for children and families who experienced, or were at risk of experiencing, harm. Her research aims to understand the continuities and discontinuities of intergenerational child maltreatment, with a particular focus on families who break the cycle. She has extensive experience using record-linkage data across Queensland and New South Wales, and is currently working on the New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS), which involves population-based, multi-agency, intergenerational data.