Our researchers

Louise Press is a Research Officer within the Family Law, Family Violence and Elder Abuse Research Team.

Dr Lixia Qu is a Senior Research Fellow who has undertaken a range of research on family related issues at AIFS.

Dr Antonia Quadara primarily focuses her research on violence against women. She manages the AIFS sexual violence research program.

Jennifer Renda is the Senior Manager of Survey Methodology for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health (Ten to Men).

Dr Pilar Rioseco is a Senior Research Fellow and Program Lead in the Building a New Life in Australia team.

Dr Kei Sakata is a Research Fellow in the Australian Gambling Research Centre team.

Dr Chris Shilling is an accomplished health economist with more than 15 years of experience in economic modelling and research across academia, industry and consultancy.

Dr Joanna Schwarzman leads AIFS’ contribution to the Emerging Minds project.

Anna Scovelle is a Research Fellow in the Longitudinal and Life-course Studies survey methodology team.

Michelle Silbert is a Manager in the Data Management and Linkage team, working across longitudinal studies and other data linkage projects.