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Children's Issues Centre, New Zealand
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Children's Issues Centre

University of Otago
117 Albany Street
Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

Tel: +64 3-479 5038
Fax: +64 3-479 5039
E-mail: cic@otago.ac.nz
Web site: http://www.otago.ac.nz/Web_menus/
Dept_Homepages/CIC/CIC.html

Anne B. Smith
Director

 - Childhood transitions
- The nature of quality environments for children and families (child care)
- Incorporating children's perspectives
- Effective prevention
- Children's perspectives on their court-appointed lawyers
Current ongoing projects:
- Access arrangements following separation or divorce
- Evaluation of the Targeted Individual Entitlement Scheme: support for low-income children to attend private schools
- An ethnographic study of children's transition from kindergarten to school
- Children in state care		 Anne B. Smith, Director:
- Developmental psychology
- Early childhood education
Nicola Taylor, Project and Research Manager:
- Social work
- Child health
- Family law
Michael Gaffney, Project Manager:
- Educational policy
- Information technology
- Social research methods
Megan Gollop, Project Officer:
- Counselling
- Interviewing children
Rachael Brinsdon, Secretary		 - Office of the Children's Commissioner, Wellington
- Early Childhood Development Unit, nationally
- Publications URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/CIC/pubs.html

Last updated: 1 July 1999