Select Publications
Journal articles
2020, 'Mental disorders in children known to child protection services during early childhood', Medical Journal of Australia, 212, pp. 22 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50392
,2019, 'Typologies of Child Protection Systems: An International Approach', Child Abuse Review, 28, pp. 381 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2596
,2019, 'Creating community indicators for early childhood development: challenges and innovations from the kids in communities study', Cities and Health, 3, pp. 68 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2019.1596525
,2019, 'Inter-agency indicators of out-of-home-care placement by age 13–14 years: A population record linkage study', Child Abuse and Neglect, 93, pp. 91 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.04.013
,2019, 'Local housing characteristics associated with early childhood development outcomes in Australian disadvantaged communities', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, pp. 1719, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101719
,2019, 'Inter-country adoption in Australia: Examining the factors that drive the practice and implications for policy reform', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 54, pp. 76 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.49
,2019, 'Pathways of Children Reported for Domestic and Family Violence to Australian Child Protection', Australian Social Work, 72, pp. 461 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1624795
,2018, 'Proposing a Model of Service Delivery for Victims/Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) from Ethnic Minority Communities in Australia', Journal of Social Service Research, 44, pp. 730 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2018.1479338
,2018, 'Changing practice cultures in statutory child protection: Practitioners' perspectives', Child and Family Social Work, 24, pp. 50 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12580
,2018, 'Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health', Critical Public Health, 28, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1446510
,2018, 'Preventing child sexual abuse (CSA) in ethnic minority communities: A literature review and suggestions for practice in Australia', Children and Youth Services Review, 85, pp. 174 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.12.028
,2017, 'Barriers to disclosing child sexual abuse (CSA) in ethnic minority communities: A review of the literature and implications for practice in Australia', Children and Youth Services Review, 83, pp. 302 - 315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.11.011
,2017, 'How aware of child sexual abuse (CSA) are ethnic minority communities? A literature review and suggestions for raising awareness in Australia', Children and Youth Services Review, 81, pp. 246 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.08.015
,2017, 'The treatment needs of victims/survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) from ethnic minority communities: A literature review and suggestions for practice', Children and Youth Services Review, 79, pp. 166 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.021
,2017, 'Identifying Off-Diagonal Communities Using the Australian Early Development Census Results', Social Indicators Research, 132, pp. 977 - 992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1333-2
,2017, 'Kids in Communities Study (KiCS) study protocol: A cross-sectional mixed-methods approach to measuring community-level factors influencing early child development in Australia', BMJ Open, 7, pp. e014047, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014047
,2016, 'Introduction for Special Issue on Income Management:', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 51, pp. 393 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2016.tb01239.x
,2016, 'Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Income Management:', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 51, pp. 469 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2016.tb01244.x
,2016, 'The Challenges of Working with People and Systems', Australian Social Work, 69, pp. 257 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2016.1170170
,2016, 'Welfare conditionality as a child protection tool', Family Matters, 97, pp. 16 - 29, https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-97#node-4466
,2015, 'Compulsory Income Management in the Northern Territory – evaluating its impact', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 50, pp. 373 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2015.tb00356.x
,2015, 'Awareness of Child Maltreatment among Professionals in Shanghai', Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 9, pp. 245 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12062
,2015, 'How early is early intervention and who should get it? Contested meanings in determining thresholds for intervention', Children and Youth Services Review, 55, pp. 121 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.05.014
,2015, 'Neighbourhood Effects Influencing Early Childhood Development: Conceptual Model and Trial Measurement Methodologies from the Kids in Communities Study', Social Indicators Research, 120, pp. 197 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0578-x
,2014, 'Recommendations for Improving Cultural Competency When Working with Ethnic Minority Families in Child Protection Systems in Australia', Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 31, pp. 393 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10560-014-0334-8
,2014, ''Normalizing the Novel': How Is Culture Addressed in Child Protection Work With Ethnic-Minority Families in Australia?', Journal of Social Service Research, 40, pp. 39 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2013.845126
,2014, 'Missing Elements in the Protection of Children: Three Cases from China', Journal of Social Service Research, 40, pp. 545 - 559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2014.922522
,2013, 'How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s?', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 48, pp. 395 - 413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2013.tb00290.x
,2011, 'Comment on: A Comparison of Out-of-home Care for Children and Young People in Australia and Sweden: Worlds Apart?', Australian Social Work, 64, pp. 432 - 436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2011.619268
,2010, 'Missing elements of a child protection system in China: the case of LX', Social Policy and Society, 10, pp. 93 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746410000424
,2010, 'Only White people can be racist”: What does power have to do with prejudice?', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, pp. 80 - 98, http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/epress/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1075
,2010, 'Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia', Child Indicators Research, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-010-9069-z
,2010, 'Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia', Child indicators research, 3, pp. 439 - 458, http://www.springerlink.com/content/491217804n70v391/
,2010, 'The National Evaluation of the Communities for Children Initiative', Family Matters, 84, pp. 35 - 42
,2009, 'Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/bea97a51-en
2009, 'Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trends', Health Sociology Review, 18, pp. 94 - 107
,2008, 'Enhancing service systems for protecting children: promoting child wellbeing and child protection reform in Australia', Family Matters, 80, pp. 43 - 50
,2007, 'Community interventions for vulnerable children and families: participation and power', Communities, Children and Families Australia, 3 (1), pp. 19 - 32
,2006, 'Cooperating and communicating: a European perspective on integrating services and children', Child Abuse Review, 15, pp. 429 - 439
,2001, 'Narrative and Fantasy in Adoption', Adoption and Fostering, 25, pp. 20 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590102500304
,1990, 'ADULT XANTHOGRANULOMATOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH ABNORMAL PLASMA APOLIPOPROTEIN LEVELS', CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, 15, pp. 372 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2230.1990.tb02118.x
,1989, 'SUBCUTANEOUS SARCOIDOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH MALIGNANT CARCINOID-TUMOR OF THE COLON', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY, 20, pp. 507 - 508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0190-9622(89)80092-1
,'Transmission of educational outcomes across three generations: Evidence from migrant workers’ children in China',
,Conference Papers
2014, 'Intergenerational mobility: new evidence from LSAY data', in 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’: refereed papers, NCVER, Mooloolaba, Queensland, pp. 68 - 75, presented at 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’, Mooloolaba, Queensland, 10 July 2014 - 12 July 2014, http://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv63419
,2009, 'How useful is the term “Culturally And Linguistically Diverse (CALD)” in the Australian social policy discourse?', in Proceedings from the ASPC, SPRC, UNSW, presented at Australian Social Policy Conference: An Inclusive Society? Practicalities and Possibilities, Sydney, 08 July 2009 - 10 July 2009, https://www.aspc.unsw.edu.au/sites/www.aspc.unsw.edu.au/files/uploads/aspc_historical_conferences/2009/paper276.pdf
,Conference Presentations
2021, 'A systematic review of children’s agency within families in the context of migration', presented at The 17th Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network & The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security, 02 July 2021 - 04 July 2021, http://welfareasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Preliminary-programme-EASPFISS2021_Rev1.pdf
,2018, '‘Implementing No Jab, No Pay: Policy Considerations’', presented at Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 25 September 2018 - 27 July 2018
,2018, '‘Supporting Settlement: Balancing Obligations with ‘Putting Australia First’', presented at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada., 15 July 2018 - 21 July 2018
,2018, 'Shifting from inclusive growth to exclusionary growth in megacities in China', presented at The 15th East Asian Social Policy Research Network Annual Conference “Social Policy in Post-Growth East Asia”, Bristol, UK, 05 July 2018 - 06 July 2018, http://welfareasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/EASP_2018_conference_book.pdf
,2015, 'Determining the impact of child protection reforms: Lessons from the evaluation of Keep Them Safe', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 28 September 2015 - 30 September 2015
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