Our team
Dr
Divna Haslam
Dr Haslam is a senior research fellow and a clinical psychologist at the Queensland University of Technology. She also holds an honourary position at the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland and at Curtin Univeristy.
Dr Haslam has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is an experienced clinician as well as an academic. As an academic she has published >80 peer reviewed papers and 5 book chapters. She has also developed a range of clinical resources in the area of parenting and child development, including 4 measures that have been translated into > 10 languages. She has received over $1.7 million dollars in research funding.
Dr Haslam is particularly interested in conducting applied research with direct practice and policy impact to support children and families. She believes all children have the right to a loving, safe, violence free childhood. Her work in this field using a prevention lens with a population focus. She aims to help children and families improve life outcomes via the targeted reduction of known risk factors and enhancing protective factors in childhood.
She is frequently called on by the media for comment on parenting issues and was appointed by DFAT as an expert advisor in the area of parenting to assist the Indonesian government to develop a parenting directorate.She currently serves on the Queensland Child Death Review Board.
For more information on Dr Haslam and her publications see here
Our Team
Our partners
The ACMS is proud to partner with the National Health and Medical Research Council, The Social Research Centre, and the Australian Government on this important project. For more information about our partners please click here.
