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Associate Professor Jenny Povey

Jenny is a research psychologist and has expertise in survey development, evaluative research, and collecting social science survey data. Jenny’s research focuses broadly on evidence-based practice and social policy evaluation and more specifically on education effectiveness (identifying and understanding the lessons that can be drawn from existing practices), parent engagement in student learning, and reducing intergenerational disadvantage.

Research interests

  • School leadership
  • School culture
  • Parent engagement
  • Child well-being
  • Intergenerational transfer of education aspirations, values and attitudes
  • Disadvantaged communities
  • Evidenced based policy and practice
  • Cross-cultural research
  • social policy evaluation
  • Psychometrics
  • Innovative methods and techniques
  • Survey methodology
  • Quantitative data analysis methods
  • Qualitative data analysis methods
  • Education effectiveness
  • Mixed methods

Organisation

The University of Queensland

Position

Associate Investigator

Disciplines

  • Psychology

Qualifications

Bachelor Arts (Honors), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Master of Arts, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
PhD, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Students

Iryna KolesnikovaLilac Florentino
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Recent publications by Jenny Povey

More publications by Jenny Povey

  • Program 3: Opportunities

  • Child Protection
  • Children
  • First Nations Peoples
  • Journal Article

Children in out-of-home care's right to family and cultural connection: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian children's perspectives

  • Aariyana Hussain

  • Iryna Kolesnikova

  • Isobel Thwaite

  • Janeen Baxter

  • Jemma Venables

  • Jenny Povey

  • Juli Richmond

  • Karen Healy

  • Kate Thompson

  • Madonna Boman

  • Published: 04 Sep 2024
  • Journal Article

Navigating the Australian child protection system: The importance of formal and informal support for carers to effectively provide care to children in out‐of‐home care

  • Janeen Baxter

  • Jenny Povey

  • Karen Healy

  • Madonna Boman

  • Published: 01 Dec 2023

  • Program 1: People

  • Program 3: Opportunities

  • Gender
  • Inequality
  • Working Paper

Homemaker or Breadwinner: Labour Force Participation of Pakistani Women

  • Asma Zulfiqar

  • Ella Kuskoff

  • Janeen Baxter

  • Jenny Povey

  • Published: 2023

Connected members

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Professor Karen Healy

  • Associate Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

Professor Xue Li

  • Associate Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Caroline Salom

  • Associate Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Karen Turner

  • Associate Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

Professor Matthew Sanders

  • Emeritus Chief Investigator

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  • Associate Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

Professor Mark Western

  • Associate Investigator

  • Emeritus Chief Investigator

  • The University of Queensland

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