Select Publications
Books
2010, (re)searching shared meanings between teachers and children; identities, being and belonging, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken
,Book Chapters
2024, 'CONCEPTUALIZING CHALLENGING CHILDHOODS: Contemporary Models and Frameworks for Addressing Vulnerability', in The Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments on Diverse Childhoods, pp. 23 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003284406-4
,2019, 'Cracking with affect: relationality in young people's movements in and out of mainstream schooling', in Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice, Routledge, pp. 6 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351211888-2
,2019, ''Child Poverty and Wellbeing: the Case of Australia'', in Li B (ed.), Anti-poverty from theories to practices., pp. 1 - 25
,2016, '‘It’s hard to blend in’: everyday experiences of schooling achievement, migration and neoliberal education policy', in Hunner-Kreisel C; Bohne S (ed.), Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 83 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31111-1
,2015, 'Insider Islamic Spaces of Inquiry: Muslim educators producing new knowledge in Sydney Australia', in Practitioner research in early childhood: International issues and perspectives.
,2014, 'Education and the Politics of Belonging', in Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, Springer Singapore, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_66-1
,2005, 'Difference, deafness and donor choice', in Jones HG; Kirkman DM (ed.), Sperm Wars: The Rights and Wrongs of Reproduction, ABC Enterprises, Sydney, pp. 242 - 252
,2004, 'Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families', in Salter G; Johnston C; Lunn H (ed.), Does this child need help? Identification and Early Intervention, Australian Early Intervention Association, Sydney, pp. 24 - 30
,Journal articles
2024, 'Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment', Social Science and Medicine, 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117181
,2024, 'Smoke: Enablers and barriers for sustainable engagement with local Aboriginal communities', Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 49, pp. 125 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18369391241236499
,2024, 'Who excludes? Young People's Experience of Social Exclusion', Journal of Social Policy, 53, pp. 236 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000046
,2024, 'Alcohol and other drug continuing care for young people: identifying helpful program mechanisms', International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2024.2353202
,2024, 'Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services', Journal of Youth Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2024.2392192
,2023, '‘I just wanted a change, a positive change’: Locating hope for young people engaged with residential alcohol and drug services in Victoria, Australia', Sociology of Health and Illness, 45, pp. 1691 - 1708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13680
,2023, 'The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities', Youth and Society, 55, pp. 895 - 923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X221127724
,2023, 'Social and Emotional Wellbeing Among Young People; the Mitigating Role of Ecological Domains', Child Indicators Research, 16, pp. 941 - 962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-022-10008-8
,2023, 'Pockets of promise: exploring innovation and complexity of remote ECEC service delivery in Australia', Frontiers in Education, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1233372
,2023, 'Serving families who face economic and related adversities: the ‘5 As’ of effective ECEC service delivery', Frontiers in Education, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1182615
,2022, 'The Association between Parental Educational Expectations and School Functioning among Young People with Disabilities: A Longitudinal Investigation', Exceptional Children, 89, pp. 60 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00144029221087392
,2022, 'From being at risk to being a risk : Journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity', Families, Relationships and Societies, 11, pp. 321 - 339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16297270094275
,2022, 'The problem of over-medicalisation: How AOD disease models perpetuate inequity for young people with multiple disadvantage', International Journal of Drug Policy, 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103631
,2022, 'Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43, pp. 84 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1947189
,2022, 'Why we stopped using the term ‘aftercare’', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 3 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13332
,2021, 'Supporting the inclusion of low-income families in early childhood education: an exploration of approaches through a social justice lens', International Journal of Inclusive Education, 25, pp. 1042 - 1060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1597929
,2020, 'Compounding education disengagement: COVID-19 lockdown, the digital divide and wrap-around services', Journal of Children's Services, 15, pp. 243 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCS-08-2020-0049
,2019, 'Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia', Children and Youth Services Review, 97, pp. 36 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.067
,2019, 'Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage, opportunity structures and social exclusion', Children's Geographies, 17, pp. 76 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1487031
,2018, 'Gayby Baby – From the politics of representation to the politics of care', Health Education Journal, 77, pp. 720 - 731, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896918759569
,2017, 'Expanding Children's Agency: Cases of Young People Experiencing Economic Adversity', Children and Society, 31, pp. 315 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12224
,2017, ''Stories from beyond': Understanding the lifeworlds of young people', Queensland Review, 24, pp. 129 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2017.16
,2016, 'Revisioning professionalism from the periphery', Early Years, 36, pp. 116 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2015.1121975
,2015, 'Cracking with affect: relationality in young people’s movements in and out of mainstream schooling', Critical Studies in Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2015.1096803
,2015, 'Taking advantage of early childhood education and care: the priorities of low-income families in their children’s early years', Families, Relationships and Societies, 5, pp. 109 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674315x14281323075723
,2014, 'Collaborative practitioner research: opening a third space for local knowledge production', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 34, pp. 351 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2013.871690
,2014, 'Filling in the details – significant events and economic disadvantage among young people in Australia.', Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 60, pp. 552 - 567
,2011, '"When the money's low": economic participation among disadvantaged young Australians', Children and Youth Services Review, Vol 33., pp. 528 - 533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.05.007
,2010, 'Affect: a tool to support pedagogical change.', Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 31, pp. 75 - 91, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a918836049&fulltext=713240928
,2008, 'Making a Difference: Young People’s Perspectives of Economic Adversity', ACWA News, Oct/Nov, pp. 6
,2008, 'Research on and with Children and Young People at the SPRC', SPRC newsletter, 100, pp. 8 - 9
,2007, 'Early childhood activism, minor politics and resuscitating vision: a tentative foray into the use of ‘intersections’ to influence early childhood policy', Contemporary Issues In Early Childhood, 8, pp. 180 - 191
,2007, 'Through their mother’s eyes: the impact of heteronormative paradigms in child care on lesbian- and gay- headed families', International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (IJEIEC), 5, pp. 47 - 63
,2007, 'Voices from an enclave: Lesbian mothers’ experiences of child care', Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 32, pp. 10 - 18
,2006, 'Playing boys: Identity and Belonging in the EarlyYears', Gender and Education, 18, pp. 507 - 522
,2005, 'Insider/Outsider Belongings. Traversing the borders of whiteness in early childhood', Contemporary Issues In Early Childhood, 6, pp. 189 - 203
,2003, 'Dark, Dark and Darker: Children’s negotiations of identity', Contemporary Issues In Early Childhood, 4, pp. 149 - 166
,Conference Presentations
2018, 'Panel discussion: Expanding the story of ‘rainbow families’', presented at Pride of place: Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Mardi Gras, University of Sydney, 25 June 2018 - 26 June 2018
,2010, 'Because children and families matter: delivering on the national reform agenda', presented at 11th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 07 July 2010 - 09 July 2010
,2010, 'Progressive policies? Australian early childhood policy and low income families', presented at Mapping Families – Practices and Concepts of Children, Parents and Professionals, Bielefeld, Germany
,2009, 'Workforce Issues in Integrated Early Childhood Services. Getting it together for Australia’s Children. What Role for Child and Family Centres?', presented at NIFeTY/ CCCH conference, Melbourne, Australia, 15 February 2009 - 16 February 2009
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