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ProfessorStefanie Schurer

Professor of Economics

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-1103-5239 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor of Economics
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Health Economics
  • Economics of Human Development
  • Policy Evaluation Methods
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Child protection

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Understanding the reasons and welfare consequences of unmet mental health care needs
    Rockwool Foundation (Denmark)1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    Improving Aboriginal health by understanding the influence of early life environments and contacts with health and social service systems over time and across generations
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mitrou F,
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    Characteristics and risk profiles for youth who go missing or run away from out-of-home care
    Australian Public Policy Institute1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pope S,
    • Conley Wright A,
    • Luu B,
    • Schurer S,
    • Cashmore J
  • GRANT
    Evaluation of the Family Support and Connect Program
    NSW Department of Communities and Justice1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S,
    • Conley Wright A
  • GRANT
    Analysis of linked longitudinal administrative data on child protection involvement for NSW families with domestic and family violence, drug and alcohol use and mental health issues
    Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety5 Feb 2021
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    A pragmatic randomised controlled trial to test whether incentives and carbon monoxide monitoring help pregnant women quit smoking
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jun 2020 - 31 May 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    Understanding the factors influencing wellbeing among Indigenous youth in the Northern Territory
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Mar 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    Against the odds: Understanding the factors influencing wellbeing among Indigenous youth in the Northern Territory (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S,
    • Shaw P,
    • Hirvonen T,
    • Havnen O,
    • Kalb G
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  • GRANT
    Family Group Conferencing (FGC) evaluation
    Department of Family and Community Services (NSW)1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S,
    • Pope S,
    • Conley Wright A
  • GRANT
    Measuring social investment for children in different child welfare permanency pathways: a scoping study
    DVC Research1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    SOAR Fellowship - Schurer, Stefanie
    DVC Research1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    EMPOWER: Health Systems, Adversity and Child Well Being
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mol B,
    • Dwyer N,
    • Gurrin L,
    • Bowering K,
    • Stocks N
  • GRANT
    Exceptional upward mobility against all odds: Non-cognitive skills and early-childhood disadvantage
    Australian Research Council (ARC)12 Mar 2014 - 30 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S
  • GRANT
    Improving the developmental outcomes of Northern Territory children: a datalinkage study to inform policy and practice in health, family services and education
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schurer S