Associate Professor Helen McLaren

My Research (some examples of current and former research):

• Examining Australia’s first experiences of the Mockingbird Family^TM model of foster care, incorporating four studies: 1. Professional Quality of Life; 2.Social Network Analysis; 3.Being in a Mockingbird Family^TM; 4.South Australian Experience
• Building Multicultural Relations at Adelaide Mosque, Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of South Australia . Funding from Department of Premier and State, South Australia, Stronger Together Grants. (link to more info)
• Women's public sector leadership: Learning from what works (Indonesia focus). National competitive funding, Australia-Indonesia Institute Grant Round 2018-19, project in Australia and Indonesia (link to more info)
• Defining quality of life indicators for measuring perpetrator intervention effectiveness. National competitive funding, Australian National Competitive Grant, ANROWS Perpetrator Interventions Research Priorities 2017-19 (link to more info)
• Women's & children's protection policy mapping in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. International research collaboration with Public Policy & Administration, and Social Welfare departments, Padjadjaran Universitas, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia (link to more info).

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PhD Supervision - In 2020 I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor prise for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision

Email me if you want to research issues impacting women, children & community: i.e., women's & children's social protection, gender & development, community responsibility, lived experience participatory action research, evolutionary prototyping of intervention programs, quality of life, wellbeing, human rights, etc., Are you seeking a supervisor? Send me your Acacemic Transcripts, CV and Research Proposal.

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Prior to joining Flinders University:

• Researcher, former South Australian Dept. Community Welfare; Australian Centre for Child Protection, UniSA; Ministerial Advisory Committee on Children with a Disability
• Forensic & psycho-social therapist, Child Protection Services, Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital; Victim Support & Forensic Investigator, rape and sexual assault, SA's Justice Portfolio.