Jodie Kidd

Email: j.kidd@student.unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: BJ Newton, Ilan Katz, kylie valentine

Jodie is a PhD student at UNSW's Social Policy Research Centre. Her research is a critical history of the problem of intergenerational trauma in NSW child protection policy directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. The history examines how and under what conditions intergenerational trauma has been problematised as a policy concern for Aboriginal families – tracing, with archival material, how it emerged as a policy problem. In doing so, the research considers what the emergence of intergenerational trauma in policy can tell us about the wider systems of thought and practice underpinning contemporary NSW child protection work with Aboriginal families - and what it can tell us about how those systems of thought and practice might be reformed for more just outcomes.

Prior to commencing her PhD, Jodie spent over 10 years in government and non-government youth and family services – in client practice, management, and policy roles. Now, as a PhD student, Jodie does contract academic work as a university tutor (psychology, public health) and as a research assistant.

Jodie holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons, Class 1), a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications), and a Master of Social Development.