Partnership drives Early Years reform
Knowledge and insights gained through collaboration with Wellbeing SA have informed a strong and strategic submission from the Flinders’ Caring Futures Institute to the Royal […]
Healthy Start to Life
New research lab tackles body image with Australian of the Year
Flinders University is now the home of The Embrace Impact Lab, a new health and wellbeing research initiative to help young Australians and their parents […]
South Australia's child development initiative: Early screening for lifelon...
Since 2009, the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has identified a troubling trend in the decline of childhood development in South Australia, particularly among ‘middle-class’ […]
Advancing international inclusive literacy practices for children with deve...
Learning to read is a human right yet children with developmental disabilities often receive inadequate literacy instruction. This issue is compounded by the fact that […]
Addressing Australia's reading crisis: initiatives to improve literacy and ...
Around 20% of Australian children fail to meet the minimum reading standard by the time they reach school leaving age, with the most recent NAPLAN […]
Supporting maternal and child health in first 1000 days
Recently, the Child and Families Research team in the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University hosted visiting International Researcher, Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar from the School of […]
Carers also need help to navigate their child’s early years
It’s not only young children who need more focused attention in their early years. Care providers also need improved support, as researchers from Flinders University’s Caring […]
Generating positive conversations around childhood health behaviours
Could embedding a health behaviour screening tool within routine primary health care be the answer to improving the health, wellbeing and development of children in […]
Exploring the experiences of pregnant women with iron deficiency
A new Flinders Caring Futures Institute project led by researcher Professor Annette Briley is investigating the facilitators and barriers for pregnant women obtaining an iron […]