Professor Rebekah Grace is the foundational Director of the Centre for Transforming early Education and CHIldh Health. She is passionate about understanding and addressing the support needs of children and families who experience adversity. Her research has engaged with a broad range of families including those who have children with disabilities, families who are engaged with the child protection system, and those who live in disadvantaged communities. Rebekah also has extensive experience working in partnership with Australian Aboriginal communities, and a strong commitment to walking alongside Indigenous people to acknowledge and address the profound inequities that exist as the result of past and current legislation and practice. 

Rebekah’s approach is multi-disciplinary in nature, spanning the health, psychology, social welfare, disability and education fields. She is an advocate for the importance of child and family voice, and-has played a lead role in placed based approaches to the development of salutogenic initiatives. Rebekah brings high level skills in the establishment and maintenance of partnerships with leading researchers in alliance with government departments and non-government service organisations. She is committed to the importance of high-quality research, and to the translation of that research so that it is meaningful in policy and practice contexts, and to those for whom it is intended to benefit.