Professor Rebekah Grace is the foundational director of the Centre for Transforming early Education and Child Health (TeEACH) at Western Sydney University. Her disciplinary background is in child development, and her career has centred on achieving real-world impact as an applied researcher. Rebekah co-leads the Australasian HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) Network, an international network examining the role of positive childhood experiences in mitigating the impact of childhood adversity. Rebekah is committed to addressing inequities experienced by children and their families. She leads a large program of research with all projects embedded within multiple complex service environments, involving cross-disciplinary collaboration and partnership with practitioners, community organisations, and community members. Rebekah is internationally known for her research using qualitative and creative participatory methods with children, young people, families and community members. For example, her model of child participation was identified by UNESCO as exemplary and she has been invited to deliver training in this model across the world. Rebekah is well known for her work in the community co-design of support services with disadvantaged and marginalised populations. Her program of research has made a significant contribution to the field as this relates to applying a strengths-based approach to interventions and examining the effectiveness of diverse models of collaboration and integration to support children with complex needs. Practice and policy initiatives she has co-developed with service organisations and community members are being scaled up nationally, including child and family services (e.g. a volunteer home visiting program for families of young children who are isolated or experiencing parenting challenges), programs implemented in diverse cultural contexts (e.g. a sustained nurse home visiting program, Bulundidi Gudaga, for Aboriginal families), and service-wide professional capacity building (e.g. ‘Foundations for Connection’ training for volunteers and service professionals who are working with vulnerable children and families). Rebekah has been awarded more than $21M in research funding and has published 108 outputs.