Life Course Centre

28/07/2025

Gina Arena, Hayley Christian and Jacinta Francis from the Play Active program have had a thought-provoking couple of days at the International Life Course Conference in Brisbane. The Play Active program are proud partners with the Life Course Centre, with the aim of providing transformative research towards breaking the cycle of deep and persistent disadvantage in Australia.

The conference brought leading experts, researchers, policy makers, non-government organisations, and community stakeholders to explore new ideas and partnership to tackle social disadvantage in Australia.

One of Hayley's key takeaways is that the challenges of delivering early years initiatives to tackle social disadvantage at scale, across Australia are large, but so are the potential opportunities and benefits.

How could children's health and physical activity research address problems faced by kids in your community?

05/05/2025

Kids need lots of bursts of energetic play throughout the day to stay healthy and happy. Grab a balloon and get inspired with this fun game from .

For more ideas to boost children's , visit the Resource Guide by becoming a member at playactive.org.au, and follow us on Facebook!


Play Active is a partnership across early childhood, health promotion, play and government sectors, alongside world leading research organisations.

of South Australia University of Western Australia The Y The Kids Research Institute Australia Sagewood Early Learning Sonas Early Learning & Care Early Childhood Australia Australian Childcare Alliance Queensland Healthway Heart Foundation Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care Health and Wellbeing Queensland Play Matters Australia Play Australia Nature Play WA University of Victoria Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark Australian Childcare Alliance South Australia
Cancer Council Western Australia
The University of Queensland
Life Course Centre
University of Sydney

11/12/2024

A new article by Research Fellow Dr Edmund W. Kanmiki in The Conversation Australia + NZ examines the financial struggles women encounter when seeking maternity care.

Families in Ghana still pay for maternal health services despite the country’s policy of free care.

05/12/2024

The recording from our webinar - How lived experience informs prevention and healing from domestic, family and sexual violence - is now available on the Life Course Centre website.

👉 https://bit.ly/4ffZubs

During last week's panel webinar, the Centre's Dr Alice Campbell & Dr Ella Kuskoff, Domestic Violence Action Centre's Amie Carrington, Qld Victims' Commissioner Beck O'Connor, advocate SHAYNE PROBERT and Cathy Hunt AM, presented the key findings and discussed insights and opportunities from the Survivor Experiences Report.

👉 https://bit.ly/4ffZubs

20/11/2024

Have you registered for our free online webinar yet? It's occuring this Monday 25 November, so click on the link in the below post now.

🖥 REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING

A way forward: How lived experience informs prevention and healing from domestic, family and sexual violence.

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, join the Life Course Centre and Domestic Violence Action Centre (DVAC) for a webinar to:

▪️ Present key findings from the Survivor Experiences Report
▪️ Explore and discuss the insights and experiences of those who participated
▪️ And continue the conversation with the panellists

Panellists:
Dr Ella Kuskoff
Dr Alice Campbell
Amie Carrington
Beck O'Connor
Shayne Probert

Panel Chair: Cathy Hunt AM

🗓 25 November 2024
⏰11am -12pm AEST/ 12-1pm AEDT / 9-10am AWST
💻 Register now: https://bit.ly/4fhj2ME

Read more about the webinar and the Life Course Centre: https://bit.ly/4ffZubs