Professor Jennifer Bowes

Associate Professor Jennifer Bowes is Head of the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University. She has a research background in educational and developmental psychology. Teaching and research have been in the area of child development, parenting and the interconnections among children, families and communities. Her edited book Children, families and communities: Contexts and consequences, published in 1999, and as a second edition in 2004, is used as a text in 15 Australian universities.