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Building Out Bullying: The influence of the school environment on bullying behaviour and mental health in primary and secondary school students

The Building Out Bullying project is funded by Healthway and aims to generate policy-relevant evidence, system-level guidelines, and school-based interventions to improve the bullying behaviour and mental health of children attending primary and secondary school in Western Australia.

Bright Tomorrows Start Today (Parent App)

The Bright Tomorrows app developed at The Kids Research Institute Australia aims to assist parents of children aged 0-5 years to support their child to develop the building blocks of several essential life skills.

The Core Story for Early Childhood Development and Learning in Australia

A core story translates scientific or expert knowledge to make it accessible to the public, practitioners, and policymakers.

Effectiveness of childcare centre interventions to increase young children’s physical activity

The aim of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of childcare centre based interventions to increase young children’s physical activity.

How healthy (or unhealthy) is the food environment around Perth schools?

This unique and innovative project will be the first to quantify the local food environment around all government and non-government Perth metropolitan primary and secondary schools.

Junk-food filled neighbourhoods: Building a local evidence-base for change’. Rapid Obesity Policy Translation Program

Gina Trapp BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD Honorary Research Associate Gina.Trapp@thekids.org.au ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Dr

Social Ventures Australia Evidence Summaries

A series of 12 Australasian Research Summaries were generated by CoLab for the Evidence for Learning website in partnership with Edith Cowan University and Fraser Mustard Centre.

Start smart: a program for healthy mobile technology use by young children

The project aims to design, test, refine and disseminate an early childhood centre intervention (Smart Start) to improve young children’s and their families’ technology use practices.

Amped Up: An Energy Drink Study

Gina Hayley Trapp Christian BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD (Distinction) W.Aust. Honorary Research Associate Head, Child

BCG vaccination to Reduce the impact of COVID-19 in Australian healthcare workers following Coronavirus Exposure (BRACE) Trial

This trial will determine whether BCG vaccination reduces the incidence and severity of COVID-19 but also whether BCG vaccination reduces other respiratory illnesses in healthcare workers.