Ann Sanson is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research has principally focused on understanding the role of child, family and community characteristics in the social and emotional development and wellbeing of children, adolescents and young adults.
She is a principal investigator on the 36-year Australian Temperament Project which has followed a large community sample from infancy through early adulthood, with intergenerational follow-up of the children of the participants now underway (https://www.melbournechildrens.com/atp/). She was the initial Project Director for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children which follows 10,000 children nationwide and is currently its Principal Scientific Advisor (http://www.growingupinaustralia.gov.au). She is also an advisor to national child longitudinal studies in Ireland, New Zealand and Norway, as well as Footprints in Time (the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children). Ann has had an ongoing engagement with the contributions of psychology to social issues. She is a founder and committee member of the Australian Psychological Society’s Psychology for Peace Interest Group and a committee member of the International Network for Peace Psychology. She has worked with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth to facilitate cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral collaborative research and knowledge exchange between researchers, policy makers and practitioners to promote the wellbeing of Australian children and youth. The major focus of her current work is on the impact of the climate crisis on current and future generations of children, and how they can best be supported to cope with their responses to it, and to adapt to its inevitable effects on their lives. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development and has over 200 publications.
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A comparison of longitudinal modelling approaches: Alcohol and cannabis use from adolescence to young adulthood
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Positions
Honorary
Paediatrics Royal Children'S Hospital
Member
International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Pscyhopathology
Fellow
Australian Psychological Society
Member
International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
Member
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, USA
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Australasian Human Development Association
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Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Registered Psychologist
Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
La Trobe University
Masters of Behaviorual Science (Prelim.)
La Trobe University
Bachelor of Arts
The University of Western Australia