About Us
The Centre for Research on Children and Families is based in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago.
Its goals are:
- To advance conceptual and practical understanding of factors that promote normal psychosocial development among children and adolescents.
- To identify and examine mechanisms that explain differences in children's normal and abnormal psychosocial development.
- To contribute to and disseminate practice and policy knowledge relating to the well-being and welfare of children.
- To work in collaboration with child and family agencies nationally and internationally to enhance understanding of factors that promote well-being among children, families and the communities within which they live.
Contact Details
Centre for Research on Children and Families
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Tel 64 3 479 5038
Fax 64 3 479 5039
Email crcf@otago.ac.nz
Physical address:
Owheo Building
133 Union Street East
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand