Dr Kirsten Hancock is currently National Manager Research & Evaluation at The Smith Family, a national non-profit that supports students experiencing disadvantage to succeed at school. At The Smith Family, Kirsten leads a program of longitudinal research to monitor and evaluate outcomes for students on the Learning for Life scholarship.
Before joining The Smith Family, Kirsten was a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute, where she researched the factors affecting student pathways through school. She has particular expertise in issues relating to student attendance, and the interplay between health, mental health, developmental circumstances, and educational pathways.
Kirsten's Churchill Fellowship included travel to the United States and New Zealand to learn about successful (and unsuccessful) strategies to improve student attendance and the circumstances that help those strategies to be successful (or not). After COVID disrupted her initial travel plans in 2020, Kirsten undertook her fellowship in May 2023.
Project
The WA Department of Communities Churchill Fellowship to research factors and contexts linked with successful and failing student absenteeism strategies
Kirsten Hancock
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