Search
News & Events
Repeated stress in pregnancy linked to children's behaviourResearch has found a link between the number of stressful events experienced during pregnancy and increased risk of behavioural problems in children.
News & Events
New building brings research closer to the bedsidePerth's The Kids for Child Health Research will be located in an integrated building with the state's new children's hospital
News & Events
Most late-talking toddlers turn out okThe study is the first of its kind to track language delay from two years of age through to late adolescence, using data collected from the long running Raine
News & Events
Telethon Institute Researchers Win National FundingTelethon Institute Researchers Win National Funding
News & Events
Aboriginal Health Researchers Win Major Discovery Grantsesearchers from Perth's Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing have won more than $1.3 million in competitive funding
News & Events
Heath Ledger Career Development ScholarshipsFive outstanding researchers have been awarded the inaugural Heath Ledger Career Development Scholarships
News & Events
New study shows no consistent decrease in child maltreatmentA new study of child maltreatment over the last 20 years in developed countries has found no consistent decrease in rates despite a raft of policy initiatives.
News & Events
Listen Up - Urgent action needed to reduce ear infectionsListen Up - Urgent action needed to reduce ear infections
Research
Oombarl Oombarl Joorrinygor-Slowly Slowly Moving Forward: Reflections From a Cross-Cultural Team Working Together on the See, Treat, Prevent (SToP) Trial in the Kimberley Region of WAReflexivity is crucial for researchers and health professionals working within Aboriginal health. Reflexivity provides a tool for non-Aboriginal researchers to contribute to the broader intention of reframing historical academic positivist paradigms into Indigenous research methodologies to privilege Aboriginal voices in knowledge construction and decision-making.
Research
Age-related differences in trust beliefs during middle childhood: Downward-extension and validation of the general trust scaleThere are conflicting suggestions concerning the developmental trend of trust beliefs during middle childhood. Across three studies, the current research developed a brief measure of child general trust beliefs, as well as child measures of trust in peers and online, and examined age-related differences in these beliefs.