Principal Leadership for Parent Engagement in Disadvantaged Schools / SpringerBriefs in Education (PDF)

Linda is the National Publications Director of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) and a member of the ALEA Executive and National Council.
Assoc Professor Jenny Povey is a Research Group Leader at the Institute for Social Science Research and an Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence on Families and Children over the Life Course (the Life Course Centre) at The University of Queensland, Australia. Jenny's research group focuses on the utilisation of research by policy-makers and practitioners to address educational disadvantage. Jenny also has considerable experience and expertise in complex policy and program evaluations. Jenny's research interests include research utilisation, research translation, education effectiveness, school leadership, school culture, parent engagement and improving student learning and wellbeing. She has extensive experience in mixed methods research using administrative data together with survey and qualitative data. Jenny's work has attracted over $11 million in research funding from the ARC, the Australian Government, the Queensland Government, the Tasmanian Government, the New South Wales Government, The University of Queensland, and not for profit organisations. Jenny has published in leading education, sociology and psychology journals and produced over 40 reports for various stakeholders. As a Chief Investigator on the Principal Leadership for Parent-School-Community Engagement (2016-2020) research, Jenny contributed to the development of a parent engagement course and led the development of a Parent Engagement Toolkit.
Dr Julie Hodges is a Research Fellow at the Parenting and Family Support Centre, the School of Psychology, at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research activities draw on her background as a clinical psychologist, a teacher and a parenting educator. She has conducted research focused on the wellbeing and self-regulatory capacity of children and adolescents and the influence that a working relationship between schools and families can have on young people's educational and wellbeing outcomes. Julie has coordinated large-scale, longitudinal research projects and her research has attracted grants from the Queensland Government and The University of Queensland. Julie has published in leading psychology journals, and in addition to her Chief Investigator role in the Principal Leadership for Parent-School-Community Engagement (2016-2020) research, Julie is collaborating with a doctoral student to develop and evaluate a skills-based program for teachers that is focused on building positive home-school partnerships. Julie is also leading the development of a reciprocal online skills-based workshop for parents.
Professor Annemaree Carroll is Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Educational Psychology in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Australia. Annemaree is a registered psychologist and teacher. Her research activities focus on understanding the impact of emotions, attention, and behaviour on learning throughout child and adolescent development, developing innovative self-regulatory interventions for children and young people to bring about positive change in their lives, and implementing strategies that can be translated into educational outcomes. Annemaree's work has attracted over $20 million in research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Queensland Government, The University of Queensland and other Australian universities and she has published extensively in leading education and psychology journals.