CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION AND WELFARE: RESEARCH AND POLICY INSIGHTS The Melbourne Institute will be hosting a one-day workshop on the 15th February 2017 at the University of Melbourne aiming to bring academics and policy makers together to discuss how research on disadvantage can be implemented into practice.

Date and time: 10.30am - 5.00pm, Wednesday 15 February 2017 Venue: Prest Theatre, Ground Floor, FBE Building, 111 Barry Street, Carlton Enquiries: [email protected]

PROGRAM 10.30 - 10.45am Registration 10.45 - 10.50am Welcome by Abigail Payne, The University of Melbourne 10.50 - 10.55am Anna Zhu, The University of Melbourne 10.55 - 11.45am Keynote lecture by Barbara Wolfe and Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin - Madison 11.45am - 12.00pm Break 12.00 - 1.00pm Australian Children Growing up with Opportunity 12.00 - 12.15pm Deborah Brennan, University of New South Wales 12.15 - 12.30pm Rosalyn Bell, Productivity Commission 12.30 - 12.45pm Anne Kennedy, Community Child Care Association Victoria 12.45 - 1.00pm Session Chair: Guyonne Kalb, The University of Melbourne 1.00 - 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 - 2.30pm Succeeding through Education 1.30 - 1.45pm Deborah Cobb-Clark, The University of Sydney 1.45 - 2.00pm Simon Kent, Department of Education and Training 2.00 - 2.15pm Anne Hampshire, The Smith Family 2.15 - 2.30pm Session Chair: Chris Ryan, The University of Melbourne 2.30 - 2.45pm Break 2.45 - 3.45pm Support through the Welfare System 2.45 - 3.00pm Peter Whiteford, The Australian National University 3.00 - 3.15pm Tim Reddel, Department of Social Services 3.15 - 3.30pm Shelley Mallett, Brotherhood of St. Laurence 3.30 - 3.45pm Session Chair: David Ribar, The University of Melbourne 3.45 - 4.00pm Break 4.00 - 5.00pm Keynote lecture by Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan 5.00pm Close CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION AND WELFARE: RESEARCH AND POLICY INSIGHTS

CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

Ms Rosalyn Bell Professor Deborah Brennan

Assistant Commissioner, Inquiry Group, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New Productivity commission South Wales

Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark Ms Anne Hampshire Professor of Economics, School of Economics, The Head of Research and Advocacy, The Smith Family University of Sydney

Professor Robert Haveman Professor Guyonne Kalb

Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Economics, Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, The University of Melbourne University of Wisconsin - Madison

Dr Anne Kennedy Mr Simon Kent

Consultant in Early Childhood Education, Deputy Secretary, Strategy and Review, Community Child Care Association, Victoria Department of Education and Training

Professor Shelley Mallett Professor Abigail Payne Professorial Fellow, Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Melbourne Director and Ronald Henderson Professor, and General Manager, Research and Policy, Melbourne Institute, The University of Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence

Dr Tim Reddel Professor David Ribar

Group Manager, Policy Office, Department of Social Professorial Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, Services The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Betsey Stevenson Associate Professor Chris Ryan

Director, Economics of Education and Child Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford Development, Melbourne Institute, The University School of Public Policy and Associate Professor of of Melbourne Economics, Department of Economics, University of Michigan Professor Barbara Wolfe Professor Peter Whiteford Professor of Public Affairs, Economics and Population Health Sciences, Department of Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Australian National University Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison