Supporting mental health and wellbeing for children from migrant and refugee backgrounds with disability
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Anna Ziersch Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Community Based Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $91,723 Recipient: Flinders University
Optimising the early detection of ear disease and hearing impairment among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged under 8-years
Chief Investigator: Dr Jacqueline Stephens Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development Community Based Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $95,487 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: All
A randomised controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in children on the autism spectrum
Chief Investigator: DR Michelle Short Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Clinical Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $98,634 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Children
Linking homeless children and their families to community health and wellbeing services: Using a Nurse Practitioner model of care to improve child health outcomes
Chief Investigator: Dr Yvonne Parry Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development. Community Based Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $90,713 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Current
Does maternal obesity drive childhood obesity through interactions between the gut microbiome and gut endocrine cells?
Chief Investigator: Professor Damien Keating Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impacts. Basic Science. Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $91,237 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: There is clear evidence that
Feeding practices and anaemia rates of South Australian Aboriginal infants and young children living in South Australia
Chief Investigator: Ms Karen Glover Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impactCommunity Based Study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $98,181 Recipient: SAHMRI Overview: Obesity starts early in life and
Developing novel treatments for MTOR-related severe childhood epilepsies
Chief Investigator: Professor Leanne Dibbens Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Basic Science Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount: $98,000 Recipient: University of South Australia
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY NEWS : Children’s special needs are the focus of CRF research grants in 2021
Seven new Flinders University research projects have been funded by the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation. They include support for special studies to help homeless, at-risk, migrant and autistic children, Indigenous
CRF helps UniSA researchers improve children’s health and wellbeing
The University of South Australia has been awarded almost $550,000 in research funding by the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation to support seven research projects, focussed specifically on improving the