Monthly Archives: May 2009

Media Release: KCWHS PhD Candidate Amanda Cooklin Comments on Paid Maternity Leave (May 13th, 2009)

Paid maternity leave will increase the value our nation places on paid and unpaid work of mothers according to University of Melbourne researcher Amanda Cooklin.
Ms Cooklin says the inclusion in tomorrow’s budget of an 18-week paid parental leave scheme which will begin nationally from January 2011, is an “historic and important decision”. Click here [...]

McCaughey Centre News 07-May-09: Something to Take Notice of

A new McCaughey Centre publication is now available on our website, at http://www.mccaugheycentre.unimelb.edu.au/publications/searchpublications. This report, entitled Something to Take Notice of: Exploring the value and challenges of peer-interviewing as a participatory research method was authored by Dr Rosemary Mann and Dr Deb Warr of the McCaughey Centre.