Kate Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, QUT. Her research focusses on children’s development of self-regulation and the parenting, educational, and intervention contexts that support such, along with the developmental outcomes associated with children’s self-regulatory functioning. This includes children’s regulation of attention, emotion, executive function, and their sleep behaviours. She is also involved in program evaluation and interested in the measurement of children’s development and wellbeing. Kate is also a Registered Music Therapist and so is interested in the ways that music can be used to support children’s development. She is currently developing and trialling a neurobiologically-based rhythm and movement program for stimulating preschool self-regulation skills in disadvantaged communities (RAMSR; see https://ramsrblog.wordpress.com/) Kate’s research strengths include:
- Intervention design and program evaluation including music therapy early intervention
- Modern approaches to analyses including quantitative and qualitative techniques with a particular specialty in structural equation modeling (SEM)
- Approaches to translating research and theory into practice for the early years community including co-development of practice resources and training materials
- Management and analysis of large longitudinal datasets
- Measurement development and statistical testing
- Strong and ongoing industry partnerships and a track record in gaining research funding.
Kate has been published in international early childhood, education, and medical journals and has won awards for her PhD and Masters theses and conference presentations.
This information has been contributed by Dr Kate Williams.
