Personal details
- Name
- Professor Kerryann Walsh
- Position(s)
- Professor
Faculty of Education,
School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education - Discipline *
- Specialist Studies in Education, Law, Public Health and Health Services
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3174
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 3989
- k.walsh@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Educational Studies (Honours) (University of Queensland), Diploma of Teaching (Darling Downs Inst. of Adv. Ed.)
- Professional memberships
and associations Memberships include: International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children; Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; Early Childhood Australia; Child Protection Practitioners Association of Queensland.
- Keywords
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child abuse and neglect, child maltreatment, child protection, child safety, child sexual abuse, mandatory reporting, primary prevention, childhood adversity, CCC
Biography
Kerryann conducts research in the interdisciplinary field of child maltreatment prevention and has researched and published in the areas of online safety, child safe organisations, school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs, child protection policy, professionals’ reporting of child abuse and neglect, and training interventions for mandatory reporters. Kerryann served as an Academic Advisor to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2015-2017) and led the research underpinning the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. She has designed and conducted process and outcome evaluations of policies, programs, and practices using big data for the Australian Government Department of Social Services socio-legal study of mandatory reporting (with Prof Ben Mathews), auditing school system policy and curriculum for child sexual abuse prevention (with Prof Donna Berthelsen and Prof Jan Nicholson), conducting a multi-site cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program (with Prof Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and A/Prof Diane Shanley); and evaluating education and training in a state-wide early childhood education and care system (with Prof Ann Farrell, Dr Megan Gibson, and Dr Mel Miller).
Kerryann is foundation member of QUT’s Childhood Adversity Research Program. She served as Co-Director of the $5.3M Australian government-funded Excellence in Research in Early Years Education (EREYE) Collaborative Research Network (CRN) involving QUT, Charles Sturt University, and Monash University (2013-2015), and as Co-Leader of the QUT Childhoods in Changing Contexts research group (2015-2019). Kerryann has served periods as Acting Head of School and currently holds the dual position of Faculty of Education Research Ethics Advisor and Faculty Research Integrity Advisor.
Teaching
Dr Kerryann Walsh teaches in the areas of child protection, child safe organisations, research ethics and integrity, and research methods. She is an accredited supervisor for Honours, Masters and Doctoral studies.
Publications
For publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Appointed as Expert Academic Advisor to the final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2016-2017).
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Research awards: 2015 QUT Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence; 2015 QUT Office of Education Research, Excellence Award 2015 Faculty of Education, 2 Publication Achievement Awards; 2013 QUT Office of Education Research, Research Performance Award; 2011 QUT Centre for Learning Innovation Research Performance Award; 2010 Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship; 2009 QUT Centre for Learning Innovation Research and Scholarship Impact Award; 2008 QUT Centre for Learning Innovation Research Excellence Award; and 2008 QUT Centre for Learning Innovation Research Fellowship Award
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Advice provided to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority on the modification of learning outcome statements relating to child protection-related content in the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (F-10).
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Invited to lead a media conference in London to coincide with publication of a Cochrane Review of School-based Education Programmes for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. Coverage in UK media included The Times Education Supplement, The Guardian, and the BBC. The press release was taken up by media world-wide (15 April, 2015). Cochrane reviews are systematic reviews of primary research and are internationally recognised as the highest standard in evidence-based health care. They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention and treatment.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Invited to research consultancy for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to develop a framework for Child Safe Organisations (2014-2016). This project involved an international research and policy review, a modified Delphi study, and extensive consultations with industry stakeholders.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Invited to join expert advisory group for the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment's development and evaluation of online child protection training case studies for school staff(2013-2014).
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Invited to undertake a National research project to audit child sexual abuse policy and curriculum provision in 38 Government and Catholic school systems in Australia for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2014).
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Appointed Network Co-Director of the Federally-funded Excellence in Research in Early Years Education: Collaborative Research Network (involving QUT, Charles Sturt University, and Monash University) (Funding = $5.3M over 3 years, 2012-2104).
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Reviewer for journals in several disciplines: (1) Education & early childhood education: Teaching & Teacher Education (Q1); International Journal of Educational Research (Q1); Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (Q2); International Journal of Early Childhood (Q2); Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (Q4); (2) Child welfare: Child Abuse & Neglect (Q1); Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (Q2); Children & Youth Services Review (Q1) (3) Psychology: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction (Q2); Australian Psychologist (Q3); School Psychology International (Q2). (4) Pediatrics: BMC Pediatrics (Q1); PloS ONE (Q1); Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health (Q2); Medical Journal of Australia (Q1); Child: Care, Health & Development (Q2). (5) Public health: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Q1); BMC Public Health (Q1)
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Invited to deliver the QCT Annual Lecture on the topic of Child Protection (with Assoc Prof Ben Mathews, QUT Faculty of Law). The lecture was filmed and made available to every Queensland school, and is available online via the QCT YouTube channel.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Empowering and protecting children by enhancing knowledge, skills and well-being: A randomised trial of Learn to BE SAFE with EmmyTM
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP130100304
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- Child Abuse; Child Well-being; Interpersonal Safety
- Title
- Developing a national interdisciplinary educational framework for professionals working with children in the early years
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ID14-3938
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Title
- Making Prevention Matter: Establishing Characteristics of Effective Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1093717
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Child sexual abuse; Health Promotion; Health Education; Child health; Child Abuse Prevention; Program Development
- Title
- Teachers' Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: Towards Evidence-based Reform of Law, Policy and Practice
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0664847
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Mandatory reporting laws; Child sexual abuse; Conforming with law; Teachers and schools; Detection and reporting; Negligence
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Barriers and facilitators to mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect in early childhood education
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kate Williams - Collective Teacher Efficacy in Low Socioeconomic Australian Schools: A Sequential Exploratory New Scale Development
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rebecca Spooner-Lane - How do teachers in rural and remote primary schools cope with children exposed to complex childhood trauma (CCT)?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Judith Howard - Young people and pornography: A mixed-method study of exposure, access, perceptions, gendered drivers, and 'pornography education'
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Flood - Early Childhood Understandings of Sustainability: Urban, Rural and Remote
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Lyndal O'Gorman
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Teachers' Ways of Seeing their Approaches with Student Behaviour in the Preparatory Year (2018)
- Initial Teacher Education for Early Childhood Teachers: A Rhizomatous Inquiry (2017)
- Perceived Maternal Psychological Control and School Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents: Associations, Mediations and Moderations (2016)
- Curriculum and pedagogical Practices in Four Hong Kong Kindergartens (2015)
- Investigating the school experiences of girls whose parents are separated or divorced: Implications for practice (2014)
- Early Childhood Teachers' Pedagogical Practice: What They Know, Think and Do with Young Children Experiencing Parental Separation and Divorce (2013)
- An Even Better Start? Parent conceptions of the preparatory year in a non-government school in Queensland (2007)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Measuring Early Childhood Educators' Self-Efficacy for Mandatory Reporting of Child Maltreatment (2019)
- Young Children's Understanding of Poverty Within a Framework of Sustainability: Action Research in a Kindergarten (2019)
- Study of the Influence of Training and Work Environment Factors on Learning and Developing Supervision Practice within a Human Service Organisation (2018)