Jody Hughes
Senior Manager
Defence & Veteran Family Research
Dr Jody Hughes manages the Defence & Veteran Family Research team, which is undertaking several studies of defence force families. Jody worked at AIFS between 1997 and 2006 and returned in 2021 after 15 years working in research roles in the not-for-profit sector and Commonwealth Government including in the Department of Social Services and National Indigenous Australians Agency. Jody has an interest in policy research and improved evaluation of government services and programs.
Qualifications
BA (ANU), Hons (Soc) (Melb), PhD (LaTrobe)
Research by Jody Hughes
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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ldentifying strategies to better support foster, kinship…
This is the final report from the research project Identifying Strategies to Better Support Foster, Kinship and Permanent Carers.
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Social capital: Empirical meaning and measurement validity
This paper aims to contribute to the development of theoretically based and empirically valid measures of social capital that can be applied in future
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