Housing and developmental outcomes for children: a scoping study

Summary

The chief aim of this project is to conduct a scoping study that reviews the existing literature on the connections between housing and childhood development and wellbeing and investigates the feasibility of conducting empirical research to examine these connections in the Australian context.

Project Number: 80551
Research Theme: Health_Ageing_and_Disability, Social_Wellbeing
Project Leader: Dockery Alfred Michael
Funding Year: 2008
Research Centre: Western Australia

Description

The study’s approach will reflect two important considerations.

First, it will take a life-course approach in recognition of the fact that there are various stages of childhood development from infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence to youth and that the nature of the connections between housing and childhood development are likely to change as children progress through their life course.

Second, where possible the study will review existing evidence of differences in the connections between housing and childhood development for different geographical and population groups such as Indigenous groups.

This scoping study will conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from the fields of sociology, epidemiology, psychology and economics. The project will promote collaboration between the Western Australian AHURI housing researchers and childhood development experts from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Longitudinal Study of Australian Children consortium advisory group. The childhood development experts have previously collaborated successfully with Dr Dockery (this project’s leader, an AHURI researcher) on other research on childhood outcomes. This project also provides research opportunities for an early career researcher and postgraduate students.

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