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Journal articles
, 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25860
Conference Posters
, 2022, 'Children’s migration and left-behind status, parenting styles, and well-being in China', Melbourne, presented at Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Conference 2022, Melbourne, 15 June 2022 - 17 June 2022, https://aifs2022.paperlessevents.com.au/presenters/2001
Conference Presentations
, 2024, 'Growing up making decisions: Transition of young people with disability from Out of Home Care', presented at Australian Institute of Family Studies 2024: Families thriving? Asking big questions. Influencing change., Melbourne, 11 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, https://www.aifsconference.com.au/event/66ecfefe-cb8b-4426-b995-9e5c27ec8f9c/websitePage:bc00fac0-3641-4302-ba9b-06d689951de6
, 2024, 'Intersectionality in Australian social policies', presented at Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference 2024: Families Thriving? Asking big questions. Influencing change., Melbourne, 11 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, https://www.aifsconference.com.au/event/66ecfefe-cb8b-4426-b995-9e5c27ec8f9c/websitePage:bc00fac0-3641-4302-ba9b-06d689951de6
, 2023, 'Migrant Children’s Agency in Daily Family Life in Jiangsu, China', presented at British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, University of Manchester, UK, 12 April 2023 - 14 April 2023, https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/annual-conference-archive/
, 2022, 'Left‐behind children’s agency within families in the context of rural‐to‐urban migration in China', presented at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, University of Melbourne, 28 November 2022 - 02 December 2022, https://tasa.org.au/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=671860&module_id=540349
, 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
, 2020, 'Hype meets evidence in pubic policy: The case of Income Management in Australia', presented at The 17th Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network, Hong Kong, 26 June 2020 - 28 June 2020
, 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
, 2015, 'Putting practice first? Practitioners’ perspectives on the implementation of a child-centred model of child protection practice in NSW', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, UNSW Sydney, Australia, 28 September 2015 - 30 September 2015
, 2015, 'Determining the impact of child protection reforms: recent lessons from NSW, Australia', presented at Social Policy Association annual conference, Belfast, 06 July 2015 - 08 July 2015
, 2010, 'Meeting the Needs of Muslim Families in Australia: Exploring marginalisation, informal and formal support needs', presented at Diversity in Health Conference, Melbourne, 07 June 2010 - 09 June 2010, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/unsworks_84625
, 2009, 'Effectiveness of individualised funding approaches for disability support', presented at Social Policy Research Workshop, Canberra, 30 November 2009