Professor Evalotte Mörelius
As a paediatric nurse and an Associate Investigator in the Centre, Professor Evalotte Mörelius’s research focusses on developing and evaluating methods to prevent and decrease stress for children and their families. Evalotte’s research has a highly clinical, family-centered focus and in [...]View
Dr Shantha Karthigesu
As Associate Investigator, Dr Shantha Karthigesu is currently scoping literature on cultural preservation and relationships between grandparents and grandchildren who communicate primarly via digital technology. Shantha hopes to bring to light the importance of digital technology in keeping the cult [...]View
Jennifer Irvine
Jennifer Irvine is a Research Assistant investigating digital health literacy among young children. She hopes that her research leads to better understandings of how children learn health literacy, and how we can best measure it. Jennifer also hopes that children can explore digital worlds where the [...]View
Professor Lennie Barblett AM
Associate Professor Lennie Barblett’s research focusses on curriculum development, pedagogy and pedagogical leadership for effective early childhood education that is accessible to all Australian children and their families. Embedded in this is her interest in the role digital technologies play in [...]View
Professor Lisa Whitehead
Professor Lisa Whitehead’s research experience over the past 23 years has centred on improving health outcomes for people living with chronic conditions, self-management interventions and working with families to support the management of chronic conditions. Engagement with clinicians and cond [...]View
Dr Pauline Roberts
Dr Pauline Roberts investigates the use of digital technologies by parents when they visit the library with their young children and the role of the librarian through this, with the aim to further explore this connection with early learning centres. Pauline hopes that her work in the Centre will hel [...]View
Ros Sambell
Ros Sambell is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University (ECU), with expertise in nutrition and food provision in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector and an interest in sustainable food systems, including regenerative agricultur [...]View
Fiona Boylan
Fiona Boylan recently completed her PhD titled Mindsets matter: Early childhood teacher perceptions of mindset, with a design based research project which developed principles to support early childhood educators to nurture a growth mindset in students. Fiona will contribute to the Educated Child pr [...]View
Dr Carmen Jacques
As a Research Assistant in the Centre, Dr Carmen Jacques will be supporting projects in the Connected Child program, looking into the ways expectant or new parents plan for children’s digital engagement prior to school. She also hopes to examine how co-operative game-play across multicultural [...]View
Associate Professor Diana Arabiat
Associate Professor Diana Arabiat’s research focuses on understanding the child and family experience of chronic illness and factors impacting child’s health and early development. Diana’s work seeks to explore ways in which interactive digital technologies impacts children’s development [...]View