• Childhood poverty
• Children’s participation in decision making and children’s citizenship
• Rights-based social policy for children
• Children in the care and protection system (out-of-home or foster care)
• Child labour in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, particularly in Indonesia
• Children’s participation in community and community development
• The physical and emotional punishment of children in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
• Child protection and rights-based policy
• Children-centred education

Research with children:

• Ethics, methodologies, methods
• Gender and poverty
• Gender analysis
• Gender and political representation (focusing on Indonesia)
• Australia
• Indonesia
• Southeast Asia
• Pacific, especially Fiji