G Redmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 14348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Redmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Redmond |
| SIGNATURE | REDMOND G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6440-4416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century
Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then. In particular, the outcomes for young people (15–29) with disability are consistently overlooked in policy evaluation, with current progress measures criticised as …
What's the Relationship Between Inequities in Education Costs and Housing Costs? Households in Three Liberal Welfare Regimes Compared
Both housing and education are key policy concerns. However, the effects of policies in these areas are seldom examined together. This paper examines expenditure on housing and on children's education in three countries with ‘liberal’ welfare regimes: Australia, the UK and Ireland. We use cross‐sectional household budget survey data for the three countries, supplemented by cross‐sectional analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Aust…
Adolescents’ educational aspirations and expectations: The Interaction Between School Experiences, Region, and Financial Disadvantage
Adolescents residing in regional areas, and those from more financially disadvantaged families, traditionally have worse academic outcomes relative to their counterparts in metropolitan communities. A key mechanism that may account for these differences is how far individuals would like to progress in the educational system (aspirations) and how far they actually think they will progress (expectations). These plans are shaped by social background…
Extracurricular activity participation, school belonging, and depressed mood: A test of the compensation hypothesis during adolescence
Feelings of acceptance within school communities can promote positive psychological outcomes. Despite occurring outside of the classroom, youth who engage in extracurricular activities typically report greater school belonging. Accordingly, we examined the longitudinal effect of extracurricular activities on school belonging and depressed mood in a nationally representative, Australian sample of adolescents (N 3,850, M age 12.41) followed for fou…
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development
Who excludes? Young People's Experience of Social Exclusion
Existing policy research has not comprehensively examined the processes by which young people experience social exclusion: that is, the relationships among different risk factors for exclusion, their actual experiences of exclusion, and outcomes that matter for their life chances. Drawing on data from a survey of Australian 13-14 year olds (N=3,535), this paper adapts the Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix to examine pathways from young people's per…
Does socioeconomic status impact the relationship between school absence and outcomes
Absence from school, especially frequent or prolonged absence, is acknowledged as a potential factor in school dropout and suboptimal academic achievement. The issue of absence from school took on added significance in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, which resulted in schooling interruptions in several jurisdictions. However, there is little agreement in the literature on the exact relationship between absence and school outcomes as a…
Social and Emotional Wellbeing Among Young People; the Mitigating Role of Ecological Domains
To examine the role of neighbourhood, what Bronfenbrenner describes as an element in the exosystem, as a protective asset for adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing. The study used a subset of national data reported by adolescents and their parents from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). A linear mixed-effect model was used to estimate the association between neighbourhood indicators and trajectories in a measure of social…
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis
BACKGROUND: Lower maternal education is associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and higher chronic inflammation in offspring. Childhood adversity potentially mediates these associations. We examined the extent to which addressing childhood adversity could reduce socioeconomic inequities in these outcomes. METHODS: We analysed data from two early-life longitudinal cohorts: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; n=1873) and the U…
The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities
Past research has demonstrated an association between financial hardships and risk-taking behaviors (defined as delinquent or transgressive acts). However, this effect may differ based upon the provision of protective spaces, like those offered in extracurricular activities. In the current study, we examined the longitudinal effect of financial hardships on risk-taking in a sample of Australian adolescents ( N = 3,852). We found experiences of fi…
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: Young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care
Young people are encouraged to take responsibility for their educational outcomes by actively engaging in their education (their ‘project-of-self’), but many also take responsibility for the care of family members who have serious health concerns (their ‘project-of-family’). Drawing on the concepts of responsibilisation and neoliberal governance, and a feminist ethic of care, we aim to better understand how young people with care responsibilities…
Reducing educational disparities between Australian adolescents in regional and metropolitan communities: The compensatory effects of extracurricular activities
Australian adolescents living in regional communities are significantly more likely to perform worse at school, relative to those in metropolitan communities. These disparities are partially due to the development of lower educational expectations among regional adolescents. In the current study, we tested whether the differences in educational expectations across communities were reduced when adolescents engage in extracurricular activities, and…
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Pressure from Schoolwork and Health Complaints: A Three Country Study
Preschool aged children’s experiences of integrated early years services in Australia: Including missing perspectives
Internationally, there has been a concerted policy focus on the integration of early years services to support children and families by bridging the divide between early childhood care and education services and formal schooling. The move toward service integration in Australia has been widely adopted into policy at all levels as ‘best practice’ for supporting children and families. However, to date, service integration research has focused on th…
Preschool Aged Children’s Accounts of their Own Wellbeing: Are Current Wellbeing Indicators Applicable to Young Children
Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities
The growing evidence base on the extent of and opportunities to reduce inequities in children's health and development still lacks the specificity to inform clear policy decisions. A new phase of research is needed that builds on contemporary directions in precision medicine to develop precision policy making; with the aim to redress child inequities. This would include identifying effective interventions and their ideal time point(s), duration, …
Are Young Carers Less Engaged in School than Non-Carers? Evidence from a Representative Australian Study
Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia
Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage, opportunity structures and social exclusion
Young people growing up in poverty often have restricted access to out-of-school enrichment activities that are important for generating the soft skills that support post-school transitions. This paper compares young Australians’ accounts of their opportunity structures – their engagement with enrichment activities, their post-school aspirations, and their knowledge of routes to achieve them – in two suburb types – improver suburbs (close to the …
Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective
BACKGROUND: Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage are fundamental to growing an evidence base that can reveal the extent of inequities in childhood, and identify modifiable leverage points for change. We conceptualise and test a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage aligned to a social determinants and bioecological perspective. METHODS: The Longitudinal Stud…
Expanding Children's Agency: Cases of Young People Experiencing Economic Adversity
The New Sociology of Childhood has generated a significant literature that illustrates children's agency in a wide range of contexts and settings but which oversimplifies the notion of agency. This paper develops Paul Hoggett's work on agency in the context of disadvantage to demonstrate the ways in which young people's agency is contingent on time and environmental contexts. We argue that the agency that marginalised young people enact can both …
How Big is the Gap in Wellbeing between Marginalised and Non-Marginalised Young People as They Approach Adolescence? Evidence from a National Survey of 9–14 Year Old Australians
Social inclusion in Australia – what has it achieved
To their Fullest Potential
In this paper a framework is proposed for conceptualising ‘fullest potential’ towards which, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( crc ), children’s education should be directed (Article 29). Children’s development to their fullest potential is linked explicitly to their right to a standard of living adequate for their development (Article 27). The paper argues that focus on ‘fullest potential’ as a human rights issue exposes a…
The unknown citizen: Epidemiological challenges in child mental health
Growing concern about the global burden of child mental health disorders has generated an increased interest in population-level efforts to improve child mental health. This in turn has led to a shift in emphasis away from treatment of established disorders and towards prevention and promotion. Prevention efforts are able to draw on a substantial epidemiological literature describing the prevalence and determinants of child mental health disorder…
Children as Actors: How Does the Child Perspectives Literature Treat Agency in the Context of Poverty
The purpose of this review is to examine agency in the worldwide literature on children's perspectives on poverty. By definition, asking children about their lives and responses to living in poverty assumes that they are competent actors – this is one of the positive features of the new and burgeoning literature on children's perspectives. Findings from research in poorer and richer countries are summarised and compared, and children's agency is …
Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage, opportunity structures and social exclusion
Young people growing up in poverty often have restricted access to out-of-school enrichment activities that are important for generating the soft skills that support post-school transitions. This paper compares young Australians’ accounts of their opportunity structures – their engagement with enrichment activities, their post-school aspirations, and their knowledge of routes to achieve them – in two suburb types – improver suburbs (close to the …
How high is infant mortality in central and eastern Europe and the commonwealth of independent states
This paper examines the measurement of infant mortality in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). There are worrying indications that official infant mortality counts, based on administrative data, may understate the true gravity of the problem in 15 countries in the region, including 11 out of 12 CIS countries, and 4 countries in South Eastern Europe. In the case of eight CIS countries in th…
Poverty and deprivation among children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Although there is now a large body of literature on poverty in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, there remains a dearth of comparative analysis of child poverty and wellbeing. This article uses household survey microdata for the period 2001–2003 to compare absolute poverty, relative poverty, material deprivation and participation in schooling among children in five countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia and Tajikistan. The …
Are Young Carers Less Engaged in School than Non-Carers? Evidence from a Representative Australian Study
Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective
BACKGROUND: Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage are fundamental to growing an evidence base that can reveal the extent of inequities in childhood, and identify modifiable leverage points for change. We conceptualise and test a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage aligned to a social determinants and bioecological perspective. METHODS: The Longitudinal Stud…
Children's agency and the welfare state: Policy priorities and contradictions in Australia and the UK
Since the early 1990s, liberal welfare regimes have begun to treat lone parents as workers rather than as carers. This has happened in conjunction with an ongoing 'moral panic' about the need to develop policies to invest in children, and to protect them from adult worlds. The purpose of this article is to analyse contradictions within and between these strands of policy in two liberal welfare states - Australia and the UK. The article argues tha…
Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia
The unknown citizen: Epidemiological challenges in child mental health
Growing concern about the global burden of child mental health disorders has generated an increased interest in population-level efforts to improve child mental health. This in turn has led to a shift in emphasis away from treatment of established disorders and towards prevention and promotion. Prevention efforts are able to draw on a substantial epidemiological literature describing the prevalence and determinants of child mental health disorder…
Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trends
There is growing recognition that investment by governments on children in their early years is an important part of social policy. However there is currently little information either about how much governments invest on children of different ages, or about what the optimum investment in the early years would look like. Using currently available Australian datasets, this article explores two approaches to estimate the adequacy of investment in e…
Welfare State Regimes and Child Poverty in the Uk and Hungary
Recent social policy reforms in Hungary have signalled a significant reduction in state sup port for working mothers, including the mtro duction of means-tested benefits for families with children. In this article we argue that this represents a move towards a welfare-state regime similar to that found in the UK, which, for families with children, encourages the 'Breadwinner' household where the father is the sole earner and the mother works in t…
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development
Who excludes? Young People's Experience of Social Exclusion
Existing policy research has not comprehensively examined the processes by which young people experience social exclusion: that is, the relationships among different risk factors for exclusion, their actual experiences of exclusion, and outcomes that matter for their life chances. Drawing on data from a survey of Australian 13-14 year olds (N=3,535), this paper adapts the Bristol Social Exclusion Matrix to examine pathways from young people's per…
Social and Emotional Wellbeing Among Young People; the Mitigating Role of Ecological Domains
To examine the role of neighbourhood, what Bronfenbrenner describes as an element in the exosystem, as a protective asset for adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing. The study used a subset of national data reported by adolescents and their parents from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). A linear mixed-effect model was used to estimate the association between neighbourhood indicators and trajectories in a measure of social…
Social inclusion in Australia – what has it achieved
To their Fullest Potential
In this paper a framework is proposed for conceptualising ‘fullest potential’ towards which, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( crc ), children’s education should be directed (Article 29). Children’s development to their fullest potential is linked explicitly to their right to a standard of living adequate for their development (Article 27). The paper argues that focus on ‘fullest potential’ as a human rights issue exposes a…
How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s
This paper examines how the relationship between parents' educational achievement (a marker of their socio‐economic status) and children's early developmental outcomes has evolved in Australia since the early 1980s. The specific focus of this paper is whether the gradient in children's early developmental outcomes by parents' education has changed since the 1980s. A comparative analysis of two surveys is undertaken that follows Australian cohorts…
The Global Financial Crisis and Child Poverty: The Case of A ustralia 2006–10
While events associated with the global financial crisis ( GFC ) had a profound impact on real family incomes and well‐being in many rich countries, impacts in A ustralia were relatively minor. One reason for this was the massive policy response by the Australian government at the outset of the GFC , which pumped billions of dollars into the pockets of low and middle income families. This article examines the impact of this stimulus on child pove…
The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities
Past research has demonstrated an association between financial hardships and risk-taking behaviors (defined as delinquent or transgressive acts). However, this effect may differ based upon the provision of protective spaces, like those offered in extracurricular activities. In the current study, we examined the longitudinal effect of financial hardships on risk-taking in a sample of Australian adolescents ( N = 3,852). We found experiences of fi…
Reducing educational disparities between Australian adolescents in regional and metropolitan communities: The compensatory effects of extracurricular activities
Australian adolescents living in regional communities are significantly more likely to perform worse at school, relative to those in metropolitan communities. These disparities are partially due to the development of lower educational expectations among regional adolescents. In the current study, we tested whether the differences in educational expectations across communities were reduced when adolescents engage in extracurricular activities, and…
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Pressure from Schoolwork and Health Complaints: A Three Country Study
Uncertain Impacts: Trends in Public Expenditure on Children and Child Outcomes in Australia since the 1980s
Welfare State Regimes and Child Poverty in the Uk and Hungary
Recent social policy reforms in Hungary have signalled a significant reduction in state sup port for working mothers, including the mtro duction of means-tested benefits for families with children. In this article we argue that this represents a move towards a welfare-state regime similar to that found in the UK, which, for families with children, encourages the 'Breadwinner' household where the father is the sole earner and the mother works in t…
How high is infant mortality in central and eastern Europe and the commonwealth of independent states
This paper examines the measurement of infant mortality in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). There are worrying indications that official infant mortality counts, based on administrative data, may understate the true gravity of the problem in 15 countries in the region, including 11 out of 12 CIS countries, and 4 countries in South Eastern Europe. In the case of eight CIS countries in th…
Poverty and deprivation among children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Although there is now a large body of literature on poverty in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, there remains a dearth of comparative analysis of child poverty and wellbeing. This article uses household survey microdata for the period 2001–2003 to compare absolute poverty, relative poverty, material deprivation and participation in schooling among children in five countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia and Tajikistan. The …
Alcohol and other drug related deaths among young people in CIS countries: Proximal and distal causes and implications for policy
Children as Actors: How Does the Child Perspectives Literature Treat Agency in the Context of Poverty
The purpose of this review is to examine agency in the worldwide literature on children's perspectives on poverty. By definition, asking children about their lives and responses to living in poverty assumes that they are competent actors – this is one of the positive features of the new and burgeoning literature on children's perspectives. Findings from research in poorer and richer countries are summarised and compared, and children's agency is …
Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trends
There is growing recognition that investment by governments on children in their early years is an important part of social policy. However there is currently little information either about how much governments invest on children of different ages, or about what the optimum investment in the early years would look like. Using currently available Australian datasets, this article explores two approaches to estimate the adequacy of investment in e…
Children's agency and the welfare state: Policy priorities and contradictions in Australia and the UK
Since the early 1990s, liberal welfare regimes have begun to treat lone parents as workers rather than as carers. This has happened in conjunction with an ongoing 'moral panic' about the need to develop policies to invest in children, and to protect them from adult worlds. The purpose of this article is to analyse contradictions within and between these strands of policy in two liberal welfare states - Australia and the UK. The article argues tha…
Uncertain Impacts: Trends in Public Expenditure on Children and Child Outcomes in Australia since the 1980s
How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s
This paper examines how the relationship between parents' educational achievement (a marker of their socio‐economic status) and children's early developmental outcomes has evolved in Australia since the early 1980s. The specific focus of this paper is whether the gradient in children's early developmental outcomes by parents' education has changed since the 1980s. A comparative analysis of two surveys is undertaken that follows Australian cohorts…
The Global Financial Crisis and Child Poverty: The Case of A ustralia 2006–10
While events associated with the global financial crisis ( GFC ) had a profound impact on real family incomes and well‐being in many rich countries, impacts in A ustralia were relatively minor. One reason for this was the massive policy response by the Australian government at the outset of the GFC , which pumped billions of dollars into the pockets of low and middle income families. This article examines the impact of this stimulus on child pove…
To their Fullest Potential
In this paper a framework is proposed for conceptualising ‘fullest potential’ towards which, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( crc ), children’s education should be directed (Article 29). Children’s development to their fullest potential is linked explicitly to their right to a standard of living adequate for their development (Article 27). The paper argues that focus on ‘fullest potential’ as a human rights issue exposes a…
The unknown citizen: Epidemiological challenges in child mental health
Growing concern about the global burden of child mental health disorders has generated an increased interest in population-level efforts to improve child mental health. This in turn has led to a shift in emphasis away from treatment of established disorders and towards prevention and promotion. Prevention efforts are able to draw on a substantial epidemiological literature describing the prevalence and determinants of child mental health disorder…
Social inclusion in Australia – what has it achieved
How Big is the Gap in Wellbeing between Marginalised and Non-Marginalised Young People as They Approach Adolescence? Evidence from a National Survey of 9–14 Year Old Australians
Expanding Children's Agency: Cases of Young People Experiencing Economic Adversity
The New Sociology of Childhood has generated a significant literature that illustrates children's agency in a wide range of contexts and settings but which oversimplifies the notion of agency. This paper develops Paul Hoggett's work on agency in the context of disadvantage to demonstrate the ways in which young people's agency is contingent on time and environmental contexts. We argue that the agency that marginalised young people enact can both …
Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage, opportunity structures and social exclusion
Young people growing up in poverty often have restricted access to out-of-school enrichment activities that are important for generating the soft skills that support post-school transitions. This paper compares young Australians’ accounts of their opportunity structures – their engagement with enrichment activities, their post-school aspirations, and their knowledge of routes to achieve them – in two suburb types – improver suburbs (close to the …
Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective
BACKGROUND: Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage are fundamental to growing an evidence base that can reveal the extent of inequities in childhood, and identify modifiable leverage points for change. We conceptualise and test a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage aligned to a social determinants and bioecological perspective. METHODS: The Longitudinal Stud…
Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities
The growing evidence base on the extent of and opportunities to reduce inequities in children's health and development still lacks the specificity to inform clear policy decisions. A new phase of research is needed that builds on contemporary directions in precision medicine to develop precision policy making; with the aim to redress child inequities. This would include identifying effective interventions and their ideal time point(s), duration, …
Are Young Carers Less Engaged in School than Non-Carers? Evidence from a Representative Australian Study
Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia
Preschool Aged Children’s Accounts of their Own Wellbeing: Are Current Wellbeing Indicators Applicable to Young Children
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Pressure from Schoolwork and Health Complaints: A Three Country Study
Preschool aged children’s experiences of integrated early years services in Australia: Including missing perspectives
Internationally, there has been a concerted policy focus on the integration of early years services to support children and families by bridging the divide between early childhood care and education services and formal schooling. The move toward service integration in Australia has been widely adopted into policy at all levels as ‘best practice’ for supporting children and families. However, to date, service integration research has focused on th…
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: Young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care
Young people are encouraged to take responsibility for their educational outcomes by actively engaging in their education (their ‘project-of-self’), but many also take responsibility for the care of family members who have serious health concerns (their ‘project-of-family’). Drawing on the concepts of responsibilisation and neoliberal governance, and a feminist ethic of care, we aim to better understand how young people with care responsibilities…
Reducing educational disparities between Australian adolescents in regional and metropolitan communities: The compensatory effects of extracurricular activities
Australian adolescents living in regional communities are significantly more likely to perform worse at school, relative to those in metropolitan communities. These disparities are partially due to the development of lower educational expectations among regional adolescents. In the current study, we tested whether the differences in educational expectations across communities were reduced when adolescents engage in extracurricular activities, and…
Psychology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (11 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Economics (9 works)