Belinda Johnston
Belinda was both working and volunteering in Montessori education for 11 years and is now the Business Support Officer for the Edith Cowan University node. Belinda brings to the Centre experience in administration, reception, retail, and finance. She has a passion for creative writing, has published [...]View
Dr Catherine Archer
Dr Catherine Archer’s early research examined the way parents as social media influencers were monetising their work, and digitising their children, childhood and family life in new ways. As an Associate Investigator, Catherine will work with other researchers in fields related to social media [...]View
Dr Ruth Wallace
Dr Ruth Wallace is a lecturer in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University and an expert in nutrition and early years education. As an Associate Investigator, Ruth hopes to that her work in the Centre will help embed important health literacy messages (i.e personal hygiene, [...]View
Professor Amanda Devine
Professor Amanda Devine is the Associate Dean of Public Health & OHS at Edith Cowan University, and a lead in ECU’s strategic Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute. Amanda’s research has focused on high quality randomised controlled trials to better understand how diets affect [...]View
Dr David Coall
Dr David Coall’s research focuses on the role of grandparents within families and the impact this has on the health and well-being of family members, including themselves. Over the past eight years, David has been involved in the largest study with grandparents who are raising their grandchild [...]View
Dr Maggie Zgambo
As a Research Fellow for the Australian Children of the Digital Age Longitudinal Study, Maggie will specifically focus on associations between children’s digital technology use and health outcomes. Through this research, Maggie hopes to assist parents, children, educators and policymakers to navig [...]View
Dr Helen Adam
Helen holds a PhD from Edith Cowan University in which she investigated the use of culturally diverse literature to support principles of diversity in early years education. The outcomes and impact of her work have been published in internationally renowned journals garnering extensive international [...]View
Dr Annemarie De Leo
As a Research Fellow for the Longitudinal Family Cohort Study, Annemarie will specifically focus on associations between children’s digital technology use and health outcomes. Annemarie hopes this research will help parents, children, educators and policymakers to navigate the ever-changing and ev [...]View
Dr Trish Collins
Dr Patricia (Trish) Collins’s research focuses on the relations between children’s personal values (i.e., motivational goals) and constructs such as social behaviour (e.g., prosocial, aggressive) and wellbeing (e.g., subjective wellbeing, self-esteem). Trish has also examined how children’s pe [...]View
Dr Emma Jayakumar
Emma Jayakumar is a Research Assistant on the ECU/Digital Child industry partner research project with LEGO Asia Pacific, Digital safety and citizenship roundtables: using consultation and creativity to engage stakeholders (children, policy influencers, industry). Emma will apply established qu [...]View