Dr Stacey Fox has worked in research and policy across child, youth and family sectors for a
number of years. Stacey has coauthored significant reports on parent engagement in …

We investigated relationships between nonparental care and psychological strains of
parenthood. Using data from employed parents of children below 5 years of age (n= 6,886 …

Research on single mothers' employment overwhelmingly focuses on the importance of
access to formal childcare at a single point in time. However, to understand the relationship …

Leading and Managing Early Childhood Settings: Inspiring people, places and practices
examines what it means to be a leader, manager and administrator across the early …

Using discursive policy analysis, we analyse recent Australian childcare policy reform. By
examining the policy framings of two successive governments and a childcare union, we …

Abstract Using nationally representative Time Use Surveys from Australia, Korea, and
Finland (n= 19,127 diaries) we examine how parenthood and the age of the youngest child …

While research investigating the mediatisation of education policy has primarily been
undertaken in school contexts, this paper reports on a study conducted in the context of early …

Researchers and policy‐makers are increasingly concerned with children's well‐being in
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) …

Background High quality child care is a population health investment that relies on the
capacity of providers. The mental health and wellbeing of child care educators is …

This chapter argues that single mothers who use mixed childcare (concurrent use of formal
and informal childcare) have much greater success in entering and sustaining employment …