Webinar with Dr Rachel Carson

Webinar with Dr Rachel Carson
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Children and Young people in Separated Families project

This 45 minutes webinar will presents key findings from the Children and Young People in Separated Parents Project. This qualitative study was commissioned by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department and conducted by the Family Law and Family Violence team at the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS).

The research was aimed at investigating the experiences and needs of children and young people whose parents had separated and had accessed the family law system. It involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 61 children and young people who were 10-17 years of age. This primary data was supplemented by interviews with 47 parents of these children to allow the research team to understand the services accessed by the parents and the pathways that they used to resolve their family law matters. The research focused on children and young people’s experiences of these services and how the family law system may better meet their needs.

This presentation will explore the rich insights from participating children and young people about the issues that are important to them in making post-separation parenting arrangements, and their experiences with, and reflections on, family law system services. The discussion will conclude with a snapshot of effective professional practice from the perspective of children and young people.

WHEN Tuesday 24 November 2020 
 11:00AM - 11:45AM (AWST)
WHERE   Online
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Legal CPD point allocation: 0.5 Professional Skills

Should you have any queries or require any further information please do not hesitate to email [email protected] or call (08) 6164 0380.

                                                                                                                             

About the speaker

Dr Rachel Carson is a socio-legal researcher with expertise in family law and qualitative research about family law disputes. After practising as a family lawyer, Rachel worked as a researcher in family law at the Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne) and was awarded a Melbourne Research Scholarship to undertake her PhD in this field of research at the University of Melbourne.

Since joining the Family Law and Family Violence team at the Australian Institute of Family Studies in June 2012, Rachel has worked on a range of significant family law research projects, including the Independent Children’s Lawyer Study and the Evaluation of the 2012 Family Violence Amendments Project. Rachel was the lead researcher for the recently completed Children and Young People in Separated Families: Family Law System Experiences and Needs project, and the Direct Cross-examination in Family Law Matters Study. Rachel is currently the project lead for the Evaluation of the Small Claims Property Pilot in the Federal Circuit Court and she is also working on the Evaluation the Legal Aid Commission Trial of Lawyer-assisted Property Mediation. Both mixed-method projects have been commissioned by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department.

Rachel and the team are also undertaking mixed-method research investigating compliance with and enforcement of family law parenting orders. This important research has been commissioned by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, as a priority project under the Fourth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children.

Rachel has also contributed to the Institute’s elder abuse scoping studies and the Elder Abuse National Research Program and she is currently working on the National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study, commissioned by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. Additionally, Rachel has contributed to research undertaken for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and to the work of the Institute’s Australian Gambling Research Centre. 

Rachel is a consulting editor for the Family Law Review journal and has represented the Institute in various capacities, including at the Senate Estimates Hearings and as the AIFS observer on the Family Law Council, a body that provides policy advice on family law to the Australian Attorney-General.

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Acknowledgement

The WA Family Law Pathways Network acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land and waters on which we live and work, and pays our respects to Elders past, present and future for they carry the cultural wisdom, the stories, the traditions and dreaming. With a commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge the ongoing impact of past policies and practices, and commit our endeavours to creating a just society and sector that celebrates the ongoing resilience and self-determination of our first peoples and communities.

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