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Children’s Issues Centre, New Zealand
| Address | Main lines of research | Staff profile and disciplines | Networks |
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Children’s Issues Centre University of Otago Tel: +64 3-479 5038 Anne B. Smith |
– Childhood transitions – The nature of quality environments for children and families (child care) – Incorporating children’s perspectives – Effective prevention – Children’s perspectives on their court-appointed lawyers Current ongoing projects: – Access arrangements following separation or divorce – Evaluation of the Targeted Individual Entitlement Scheme: support for low-income children to attend private schools – An ethnographic study of children’s transition from kindergarten to school – Children in state care |
Anne B. Smith, Director: – Developmental psychology – Early childhood education Nicola Taylor, Project and Research Manager: – Social work – Child health – Family law Michael Gaffney, Project Manager: – Educational policy – Information technology – Social research methods Megan Gollop, Project Officer: – Counselling – Interviewing children Rachael Brinsdon, Secretary |
– Office of the Children’s Commissioner, Wellington – Early Childhood Development Unit, nationally – Publications URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/CIC/pubs.html |
Last updated: 1 July 1999