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Building evidence

Our team is skilled at generating, synthesising and evaluating evidence. We focus on presenting results in meaningful and useable ways.

Knowledge translation

We will help you share and translate knowledge in ways that mean something to you – and to those working with you.

Strengthening practice

We work with you to uncover evidence-based solutions tailored to your needs. This can involve adapting existing approaches or devising new ones.

Assessing impact

We bring a distinct advantage to conducting evaluations: our real-world experience. This makes your end-product more than just an academic exercise.

Implementation

We ensure the right plans and structures are in place so your evidence-based programs, services or ways of working are sustainable.

Innovative change solutions

With 25 years of expertise, we transform challenges into opportunities, delivering innovative, impactful solutions that drive success.
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Our staff know they are making a difference to the lives of parents and families

We want to work with like-minded people who wish to:

  • drive new and improved ways to support parenting
  • seek and share scientific knowledge on effective parenting
  • develop research-based, non-judgemental solutions to contemporary parenting challenges
  • provide leadership on parenting issues for policymakers, practitioners and the community
  • connect with a wide range of talents, skills and abilities
  • take advantage of good administrative systems and practices.

Vacancies

We’re always on the lookout for talented people to join our team.

We list any upcoming positions on this page, so please check back often for updates.

Casual Research Assistant (South Australia-based)

We are seeking a team member who hails from the great state of South Australia. If you want to develop your career in data collection, collation and analysis, drawing on your social services degree, then we want to hear from you.

Experience with/comfortable engaging community stakeholders will be highly regarded for this role.

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We’re proud of our workplace

Every role at the Parenting Research Centre is important to our vision of skilled parenting and thriving children.

We aim to create a positive and rewarding work experience for all employees. We have a strong, positive culture, a commitment to living our values and offering staff a contemporary and flexible workplace.

We were named as a winner in the Xref Engage Awards (formerly Voice Project Awards) in 2021, 2023 and 2025, which recognises workplaces that have excellent management practices and a highly engaged workforce.

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Positive, respectful and flexible

We think organisational culture is so important that our staff have created a code of behaviour to guide our work. We’re proud to say this is much more than a document – it’s at the heart of the way we work together. Our code is built on the core values we think should guide how we relate to each other:

  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Acceptance
  • Positivity.

We also support flexible work arrangements such as job sharing and home working because we believe work-life balance is fundamental to a happy, healthy, productive team. Our teams also gather regularly for purposeful face-to-face work in our modern co-working spaces in Melbourne and Sydney.

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For more information about our current vacancies, please get in touch with our hiring team.

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What we do

Our vision is to see children thrive. Our mission is to support parents in learning new skills as their families grow and change.

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