Appendix B: LSAC Research Consortium
Members of the LSAC Research Consortium are:
Dr John Ainley, Deputy Director, Australian Council for Educational Research
Associate Professor Donna Berthelsen, Centre for Applied Studies in Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology
Professor Michael Bittman, Department of Sociology, University of New England
Dr Linda Harrison, Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst
Professor Ilan Katz, Acting Director, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Associate Professor Jan Nicholson, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
Dr Bryan Rodgers, Senior Fellow, Family and Community Health Research Unit, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Professor Ann Sanson, Network Coordinator, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, and LSAC Principal Scientific Advisor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
Professor Michael Sawyer, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Women's and Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide
Professor Sven Silburn, Co-director, Curtin University of Technology, Centre for Developmental Health, Institute for Child Health Research, Perth
Dr Lyndall Strazdins, Research Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
Associate Professor Judy Ungerer, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University
Professor Graham Vimpani (Representative of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth), Director, Child Adolescent and Family Health Service, University of Newcastle
Dr Melissa Wake, Director, Research and Public Health Unit, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Professor Stephen Zubrick, Co-director, Curtin University of Technology, Centre for Developmental Health and Head, Division of Population Science, Institute for Child Health Research, Perth.
List of shortened forms
| Child cohort | 4 to 5 year-old LSAC children |
| Infant cohort | 3 to 19 month-old LSAC children |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| ASCO | Australian Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ATSI | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CSHCN | Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| LOTE | Language other than English |
| LSAC | Longitudinal Study of Australian Children |
| NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| PedsQL | Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| SEIFA | Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas |
| SDQ | Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire |