Stephanie Taplin is Associate Professor in the Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) at the Australian Catholic University. She has undertaken research with vulnerable populations such as juvenile detainees, criminally-involved individuals, families involved with the child protection system, and illicit-drug using mothers. She has a particular interest in the prevention of substance use and mental health problems, and her focus, over recent years, on child protection developed from this interest.
Stephanie’s current research is: (i) decision-making about children’s participation in research (the MESSI study; funded by ARC); (ii) an RCT of a contact intervention for children in OOHC and their parents (the kContact study; funded by ARC, NSW Family and Community Services and partners); and (iii) examining the extent, nature and impacts of prenatal reporting and removal of newborns (the SIB study; funded by ARC).