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About CHPRC
Career pathways
Employment opportunities
My career journey
Child Health Promotion Research Centre
Child Health Promotion Research Centre
Faculty of
Computing, Health
and Science Centre
Child Health
Promotion
Research
of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences
SchoolSchool
of Exercise
Biomedical & Health Sciences
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Priority areas of research
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Bullying including cyber bullying
Aggression and violence prevention
Mental health promotion
Road safety and injury control
Drug use control
Obesity prevention
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16 current research grants
• Cyber Friendly Schools Project
• Social Aggression Capacity Project
• Keeping in Touch with Young People in
Schools
• Implementation of Road Safety Programs
• Starting Child Obesity Prevention Earlier
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Student Reference Committee
Australian Covert Bullying Prevalence Study
Sample
2007 - 964 Year 4-9 students*
2008 - 3,598 Year 5-10 students*
2009 - 1,171 Years 5-10 students*
Stratified by
• government / non- government schools
• metropolitan / non-metropolitan schools
• primary and secondary
*cross sectional
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% report being bullied* (any type)
Grades 4-10
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Strengthens parent’s capacity
to communicate with children
about cyber interactions
Cyber Friendly
Schools Projects
2007 – 2008
Australian Covert Bullying
Prevalence Study
2009 – 2010
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Cyber Friendly
Parents’
Project
Pilot Test
(Telstra)
Review of Existing
Australian &
International Cybersafety Research
Cyber Friendly
Schools &
Families
Cyber Friendly Parents’
Intervention Trial
Literature Review
(DBCDE)
2008 – 2012
Cyber Friendly
Schools Project
2007 – 2008
The Cyber Bullying
Formative Study
(DEEWR)
(Healthway)
National Prevalence
Study
Developing evidence based
policy and practice
COVERT BULLYING
2010 – 2014
Social Aggression
Capacity Project
CYBER BULLYING
CYBER SAFETY
Solid Kids, Solid Schools Project (2007-08)
Childhood Aggression Prevention Project (2007-08)
Supportive Schools Project (2005)
Friendly Schools & Friendly Families Program Release (2004)
Friendly Schools, Friendly Families (2002 -03)
Friendly Schools (2000-01)
Collaborative
capacity building to
support schools
SOCIAL AGGRESSION
Cyber Friendly
Schools Project
(Telstra, PEET, Healthway)
 3 year RCT - 30 schools
 3,500 students and parents
 web-based resource
and training
www. cyberfriendlyschools.com.au
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• Student leader training
• Parent training and
parent information
• Teacher training
• Multi-media created by
young people
• Self-help online resources
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Solid Kids Solid Schools
Bullying experiences of Aboriginal students
Formatively develop and evaluate a school and communitybased bullying prevention and reduction program that has
cultural integrity and validity for rural schools with higher
proportions of Aboriginal students.
www.solidkids.net.au
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Walk with your Kids
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Trends over time for groups different?
Outcome measure
Interaction significance
Hand-holding (every time)
p < 0.001
Accompaniment (every time)
p = 0.017
Modelling (every time)
p = 0.829
Involve child - safest place to cross
(every/most times)
p < 0.001
Involve child - safe to cross?
(every/most times)
p < 0.001
Parent practised steps (every/most
times)
p = 0.003
Knowledge
p < 0.001
Child follows steps (2+steps)
p = 0.023
Hand-holding
OR = 1.0
1.8*
2.1*
2.7*
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KIT-Plus
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Translation to policy and practice
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Road safety (40 km/hour zones)
Road safety program
Sun safety – Kidskin national dissemination
Bullying (+covert/cyber) policy
SCYP national and international dissemination
SDERA - KIT Plus
MEP / CAP requests
Nutrition in the early years policy and practice
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Strengths
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Work as a team
Commitment of staff – desire to make difference
Priority driven research
Quality of research
Staff capacity building
Volunteer program
Passive income source
Strong formative research structure
Multi-focus research
Multi-disciplinary team
Strong Advisory Board
Faculty and School support
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Pathways
• Undergraduate degree
• Volunteer program
• Research officer
• Master of Public Health
• PhD
• Post-doctoral fellowship
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Employment opportunities
What we want from you:
• Passion
• Pathway entries only
• Patient
• Positive
• Hard working
• Self-motivated and show initiative
• Prepared to learn
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What we can give to you:
• Skills
• Team support - 40 staff, 16 projects, 15 years
• Mentors
• International profile
• Opportunities
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My career journey
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Teacher
Post graduate diploma
PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Lecturer
Research Fellow
Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor
Head, CHPRC
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Summary
• Passionate about the health and wellbeing of
young people
• Work with a team
• Mentor
• University support
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Associate Professor Marg Hall
[email protected]
Mt Lawley campus, Building 18,
Level 2
www.chprc.ecu.edu.au