Karen Thorpe

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Australian Laureate Professor, Group Leader

The University of Queensland Queensland Brain Institute

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Karen Thorpe is an Australian Laureate Professor and Group Leader at The University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute. Her research focuses on early childhood education and care, particularly in relation to quality improvement systems, child behaviour, and workforce professionalism. She has published extensively on the social and health rights of children with disabilities, as well as the impacts of sleep on performance and social-emotional development in children.

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Sleep Practices in Early Childhood: Research and Translation Program, Department

Open Date: 2015-06-01

Close Date: 2016-12-01

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Securing the data

Open Date: 2013-01-01

Close Date: 2013-01-01

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Promoting protective feeding practices to prevent childhood obesity: follow up of a successful obesity prevention program commencing in infancy.

Open Date: 2012-01-01

Close Date: 2014-12-31

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Interacting with knowledge, interacting with people: web searching in early childhood

Open Date: 2011-01-01

Close Date: 2013-01-01

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Debbie Long

Queensland University of Technology

AUSTRALIA

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Andrew Clarke

Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy

University of New South Wales

AUSTRALIA

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Karen Hazell-Raine

Charles Darwin University

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Simon Smith

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University of Queensland

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Holly Harris

Erasmus University Rotterdam

NETHERLANDS

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Jasneek Chawla

Associate Professor

AUSTRALIA

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Elena Jansen

Queensland University of Technology

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Sally Staton

University of Queensland

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Susan Irvine

Associate Professor

Queensland University of Technology

AUSTRALIA

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Focused, fair and frequent: A framework to improve equity, effectiveness and efficiency of quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education

Improving Australia’s quality rating and improvement systems for early childhood education and care

Fighting for our children: a collective responsibility to deliver social and health rights to children with disability

The challenges of challenging behaviour: early childhood educators’ understandings of child behaviour and impact on occupational wellbeing

Sleep deprivation and recovery: Endurance racing as a novel model

How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care

Australia’s ECEC workforce pipeline: Who and how many are pursuing further qualifications?

Exploring the Relationship Between Age at Nap Cessation and Social-Emotional Functioning in Children

Access to high-quality early care and education: Analysis of Australia's national integrated data

The Brain in Context: A Scoping Review and Concept Definition of Neuro-Informed Policy and Practice

Professionalization and Professionalism: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

Do the numbers add up? Questioning measurement that places Australian ECEC teaching as ‘low quality’

Mealtimes in the context of poverty: Comparison of ECEC services providing food and those requiring food provided from home

Support to stay and thrive: mapping challenges faced by Australia’s early years educators to the national workforce strategy 2022–2031

Communicating the complex lives of families that include a child with Down syndrome

Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?

Factor structure of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in a large population-based sample of fathers

A Missed Opportunity? Meal Provision in Early Childhood Education and Care Services in the Context of Socioeconomic Disadvantage

Emotional quality of early education programs improves language learning: A within‐child across context design

Meal provision in early childhood education and care programs: Association with geographic disadvantage, social disadvantage, cost, and market competition in an Australian population

Discarded data: an Ahmedian engagement with young children’s gendered accounts of violence and power

Associations between food provision and feeding practices in socially disadvantaged childcare centres

Discursive tensions: Outcomes and rights in educators’ accounts of children’s relaxation

Collaborators (9)

Debbie Long

Andrew Clarke

Karen Hazell-Raine

Simon Smith

Holly Harris

Jasneek Chawla

Elena Jansen

Sally Staton

Susan Irvine

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