Jessica Smart
Research Fellow
Child & Family Evidence
Jessica Smart is a qualitative researcher and evaluator at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. With a background in community development and health promotion, Jessica's research focuses on the provision of social and human services. Jess has been at AIFS since 2016, working on research and evaluation in the areas of child care, out-of-home care, collaborative service delivery and defence and veteran families.
Jess has qualifications in social science and humanities, public health, and community development and is particularly interested in participatory and engaged research approaches and capability building.
Qualifications
- Master of Public Health, University of Melbourne
- Diploma of Community Development, Swinburne University
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
Research by Jessica Smart
Strengthening Defence and Veteran Couple Relationships…
This project explored how to best support relationships facing unique challenges in navigating the ADF lifestyle by examining existing evidence-based couple…
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In Home Care Evaluation Report
This final evaluation report for the IHC program draws on data collected about IHC up to February 2020.
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Identifying strategies to better support foster, kinship…
This is a summary report about carer's needs by AIFS and Murawin, funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. The government wanted to know…
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