Stacy Tzoumakis is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. She takes a developmental life-course perspective to understanding antisocial behaviour and offending. She has extensive research and project management experience in Canada and Australia, particularly in the implementation and analysis of longitudinal studies. Stacy completed an Infant Psychiatry Research Fellowship at British Columbia Children’s Hospital, where she conducted a randomized control home visitation study for children with behavioural problems. She is also involved in Vancouver Longitudinal Study on the Psychosocial Development of Children, an on-going longitudinal project, which aims to provide empirical evidence for policymakers about key early risk and protective factors of aggression and violence in at-risk children from the earliest developmental periods. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Psychiatry at UNSW Australia working on the New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS), a large population-based multi-agency, intergenerational data linkage study of 87,000 children and their parents. Stacy continues to be involved in the NSW-CDS, which utilises administrative record linkage from a variety of sources (i.e., criminal justice, health, welfare, and education) to identify vulnerability and protective factors for a wide range of health, educational, social, and wellbeing outcomes.
CRIM2038 - Young People, Risk and Harm
SRAP3001 - Quantitative Social Research
SRAP3002 - Social Reseach and Policy Project
Current Research Grants
2017-2019. Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2017. Targeting early contact with the criminal justice system in young people. CIs: A/Prof Kimberlie Dean, Dr Stacy Tzoumakis, A/Prof Melissa Green, Prof Vaughan Carr (AUD$372,500)
2017-2018 Lowitja Institute Research Grant. Ngadhuri-nya (To care for): Intergenerational and educational influences on social, mental and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people. CIs: Dr Stacy Tzoumakis, Dr Megan Williams, A/Prof Melissa Green, Prof Vaughan Carr (AUD$65,682)
2017-2018. Australian Rotary Health Research Project Grant. Determinants of risk and resilience in maltreated children using multi-agency administrative records: A population record-linkage study. CIs: A/Prof Melissa Green, Prof Vaughan Carr, Prof Ilan Katz, Dr Kristin Laurens, A/Prof Kimberlie Dean, Dr Stacy Tzoumakis (AUD$149,500)
2017-2018. NARSAD Brain & Behavioral Research Young Investigator Grant. Latent profiles of child psychopathology and mental health disorder in adolescence: A prospective population-based record linkage study. CI: Dr Stacy Tzoumakis (USD$70,000)
Past Research Grants
2015-2017. Criminology Research Grant - Australian Institute of Criminology. The intergenerational transmission of criminal offending behaviours. CIs: Dr Stacy Tzoumakis, Prof Vaughan Carr, A/Prof Kimberlie Dean, Dr Kristin Laurens, A/Prof Melissa Green (AUD$65,534.70)
Research Affiliate - Gendered Volence Research Network
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