Biography
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 7 years in non-government support services for children...view more
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 7 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.
My Research Activities
Research Interests: Intergenerational child maltreatment; cycle breakers; mental health; domestic and family violence; developmental and life-course criminology; prevention and early intervention opportunities.