Childwatch International
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Australian Institute of Family Studies

300 Queen Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia


Tel: +61-3-9214 7888
Fax: +61-3-9214 7839
Web site: http://www.aifs.org.au/



John Shelton
E-mail: johns@aifs.org.au
Acting Director

- Parenting, including fathering
- Child maltreatment and child protection
- The life course of Australian families
- Families as carers
- Family formation, dissolution and reformation
- Family trends monitoring
-Indicators of wellbeing for children and young people
- Geographic distribution of families
- Rural family issues
- Families and housing
- Families and work
- Australian living standards study
- Families and the development of human, family and social capital
- Families and policy change toward self-provisioning		 The institute has 46 staff in three programme areas:
- Research
- Information dissemination
- Corporate services
The disciplines among staff are:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Education
- Statistics
- Policy analysis
- Economics
In the information programme, personnel are:
- Librarians
- Editors
- Media liaison and marketing officers
Corporate service personnel are trained in:
- Accountancy
- Information technology
- Administration		 We have direct contact with many of the other Key Institutions of Childwatch International. In addition, we maintain links with:
- International Family Policy Forum (Toronto, Canada)
- Vanier Institute (Montreal, Canada)
- European Observatory on National Family Policies (Social Policy Unit, University of York, UK)
- International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Dartington Social Research Unit (Dartington, UK)
- Thomas Coram Research Unit (London, UK)

Last updated: 1 July 1999