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The Research for Children Aotearoa collaborative brings together established Research Institutes, organisations, and communities to advance equitable, innovative, world-leading research for children. Proudly supported by Te Papa Hauora, this collaborative fosters research excellence across disciplines to strengthen impact across clinical, medical, sociological, and educational domains.

Andrew Day
Professor Andrew Day, Cure Kids Chair of Paediatric Research at University of Otago Christchurch.

Professor Andrew Day, Cure Kids Chair of Paediatric Research at University of Otago Christchurch, is an academic paediatric gastroenterologist. Research interests include bowel diseases in children, nutrition and nutritional interventions and biomarkers of gut dysfunction.

Laurie McLay
Professor Laurie McLay is a Professor in Te Kaupeka Oranga | Faculty of Health at the University of Canterbury. She recently established and is Director of the Autism Research Centre – Aotearoa New Zealand.

Laurie’s primary research focus is on the design, development and evaluation of digitally-delivered supports that promote the health and well-being of Autistic children and their caregivers. This includes over a decade of experience researching the primary and secondary benefits of psychosocial sleep interventions for Autistic people.

Prof. McLay has authored over 75 research outputs and secured over $9 million in external grant funding ($3.6 million as lead investigator) through a series of national and international research collaborations.

Jayne White
Professor E. Jayne White has a life-long commitment to early years research and pedagogy in and beyond educational spaces.

Professor E. Jayne White has a life-long commitment to early years research and pedagogy in and beyond educational spaces. As co-lead of School of Teacher Education’s Pedagogies of Possibilities Research Group, she advances research that goes beyond ‘what is’ to explore questions concerning ‘what could be’. Jayne co-founded the Association for Visual Pedagogies, a society dedicated to visual scholarship in thought and practice where she holds a Fellowship and is also Editor-in-Chief of their journal called Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy.

Jayne also co-edits the international Springer book series Policy and Pedagogy with under three-year-olds and is a life-long Fellow of the Educational Philosophy Society of Australasia. These roles coalesce around Jayne’s lingering commitment to creative ways of visibilising our youngest learners as dialogic partners in mutual becomings. To this end she has published over 200 scholarly papers, books and chapters and, additionally, translates many of these research insights for teachers to access in websites, memes, and video (e.g.
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/age-responsive/ and 
https://www.earlytransitions.com/

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Philip Schluter
Professor Schluter's research is largely epidemiological in nature, driven by a social justice perspective. Student supervisions and publications have largely focused on population inequity, forming an evidence base to inform important health policies. Many peer-reviewed journal articles explicitly deal with the social determinants of health, often embedded in local contexts but motivated by national or international public health priority areas seeking to reduce health inequalities.

I have supervised 26 PhD students and 23 Masters students to completion, with another 3 PhD and 3 Masters students current. My expertise is regularly sought nationally and internationally to critique research applications for various peak funding organisations, including: the Health Research Board (Ireland); the Chief Scientist Office Project Grant Scheme (Scotland); the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (NZ); NHMRC project grant proposals (Australia); and, HRC (NZ). I also provide expert review to multiple high-ranking international journals, including: Lancet, BMJ, Pediatrics, Psychological Methods, Addiction, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, and, Medical Journal of Australia. I have led or been a named investigator on 73 successful competitive grants in Australia and New Zealand totalling $32.5 million and published over 300 peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals. Major funding sources include: HRC, NHMRC (Australia), ARC (Australia), and MBIE. My research over the 2006-2011 and 2012-2017 periods was awarded an “A” PBRF ranking in public health.