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Email: m.blaxland@unsw.edu.au

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Research Areas:

Family policy, social security and income support, early childhood education and care, child care, comparative welfare regime analysis, grandparents bringing up grandchildren, unpaid care work, gender division of labour

Research:

• Grandparents as the primary carers of their grandchildren
• Trends in Time: Work, Family and Social Policy in Australia 1992-2006
• Everyday life and public policy: Low-income families, paid work and child care
• Care, Employment and Social Policy in Australia and the USA

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Publications:

2009, (with Deborah Brennan and Kathy Tannous), A Strategic Assessment of the Children's Services Industry, A paper prepared for the Children's Services Subcommittee of the Community Services and Disability Services Ministerial Advisory Council.

2008, 'Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Audits: Australia', in Brennan, D. (ed.), Building and International Research Collaboration in Early Childhood Education and Care: Background Materials for a Workshop funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, February.

2008, 'Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Audits: Canada', in Brennan, D. (ed.), Building and International Research Collaboration in Early Childhood Education and Care: Background Materials for a Workshop funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, February.

2008, 'Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Audits: United Kingdo,', in Brennan, D. (ed.), Building and International Research Collaboration in Early Childhood Education and Care: Background Materials for a Workshop funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, February.

2008, 'Early Childhood Education and Care Policy Audits: Sweden', in Brennan, D. (ed.), Building and International Research Collaboration in Early Childhood