Research Interests:
- Gender, family, culture and lone parenting
- Capabilities approaches to family poverty
- Access to services for rural families with young children
- Collaborative multi-disciplinary community service models
- Qualitative and applied research approaches.
Keywords: early childhood; community capacity development; rurality
Projects
- Tuning in to Kids Parenting (Alabama)
- SaPHIRE Study
- Just in Time Parenting (jitp.info)
- UnLocked Study
- ​Social Indicators for Preventing Child Abuse in Alabama
- Mama Bird
She focuses on social policy and planning for families, particularly rural families and families who experience marginalized circumstances due to income, inequality, racialization or settler colonialism.
Skills and Expertise
- Poverty Analysis
- Public Policy Analysis
- Early Childhood
- Leadership
- Feminist Theory
- Grounded Theory
- Qualitative Methods
- Poverty
- Early Intervention
- Social Policy
