Research briefs 

Overview

Early development and education series

  1. Pathways to school success: self-regulation and executive function
  2. The impact of hearing impairment on childhood development and education

Welfare and justice series 

  1. Public health response to youth justice
Publications

Early child development and education 

  1. The impact of hearing impairment on Aboriginal children's school attendance in remote Northern Territory: a data linkage study. (2019)
  2. The impact of hearing impairment on early childhood development in Australian Aboriginal children (2020).
  3. The impact of hearing impairment on early academic achievement in Northern Territory Aboriginal children. (2020)
  4. Pathways to school success: Self-regulation and executive function, preschool attendance and early academic achievement of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in Australia’s Northern Territory (2021)
  5. Complex early childhood experiences: characteristics of Northern Territory children across education, health and child protection data (2023)
  6. Transitional pathways through middle school for First Nations students in the Northern Territory of Australia (2023)

Welfare and justice 

  1. Hearing and justice: The link between hearing impairment in early childhood and youth offending in Aboriginal children living in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia (2019)
  2. From Birth to Five: A multiagency data-linkage study to inform a public health response to child protection in the Northern Territory. (2019)
  3. Protection and Justice: A study of the crossover of Northern Territory children between two services. (2019)
  4. The link between hearing impairment and child maltreatment among Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory of Australia: Is there opportunity for a public health approach in child protection? (2020)
  5. Patterns of child protection service involvement by Aboriginal children associated with a higher risk of self-harm in adolescence: A retrospective population cohort study using linked administrative data (2021)
  6. Opportunities for prevention: A data-linkage study to inform a public health response to youth offending in the Northern Territory, Australia. (2021) 
  7. Patterns of alleged offending among young people in the Northern Territory of Australia (2023)

Health

  1. Baseline incidence of adverse birth outcomes and infant influenza and pertussis hospitalisations prior to the introduction of influenza and pertussis vaccination in pregnancy: a data linkage study of 78 382 mother-infant pairs, (2019)
  2. Exploring risk profiles of young people with self-harm hospital admissions in the Northern Territory. (2019)
  3. The impact of hearing impairment on the life trajectories of Aboriginal children in remote Australia: protocol for the hearing loss in kids study. (2020)
  4. Patterns of child protection service involvement by Aboriginal children associated with a higher risk of self-harm in adolescence. (2021)
  5. The extent of violence inflicted on adolescent Aboriginal girls in the Northern Territory (2022)
  6. Mental health-related hospitalisations associated with patterns of child protection and youth justice involvement during adolescence (2023)