Karlee O'Donnell

Karlee O'Donnell is a Senior Research Officer at AIFS, currently working in Families and Society team. She has also previously worked in research and analysis teams of Growing up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children and Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health. 

Karlee holds a PhD in developmental psychology and has expertise in factors that undermine or enhance health and wellbeing across the lifespan. Karlee's research is underpinned by an ethos of applying the most appropriate methodology to better understand peoples’ lived experiences while also quantifying points for intervention. As such, she is a skilled mixed-methods researcher with experience in qualitative and quantitative research and a keen interest in longitudinal methods.