PS031 - Leveraging data to support young people’s education and wellbeing

Research Investment

Researchers: Prof Sally Brinkman (Principal investigator)

Brief description State and territory education departments hold comprehensive administrative databases that include socioeconomic, demographic and cultural information, student enrolment and attendance, behaviour management, wellbeing and engagement, disability, access to psycho-social services and of course academic achievement. These data are held within numerous custom-made databases. Further, these data vary in content, detail, quality and governance. So, despite the substantial potential of these rich data for research, their disarray prevents researcher’s access and use. This project will open up new streams of research by creating an enduring database linking education and wellbeing data from multiple databases over time to reflect the students’ journey throughout their school life. A collaborative, coordinated approach will maximize the comparability of data while still permitting the use of data that differs across the jurisdictions.

Amount 350,000.00 AUD

Scheme Public Sector to Research Sector Bridges