Dr Sallie Newell BSc(Hons)Psychology(ELond) PhD(Newcastle(NSW)) Sallie Newell is a Senior Research Officer with the Centre for Children & Young People. Her primary responsibility is to oversee the preparation, implementation and reporting of the Centre’s numerous project planning and evaluation consultancies. She also contributes to the Centre’s strategic planning processes and funding applications. Sallie has an honours degree in Psychology, a PhD in behavioural science and over 15 years' postgraduate research and evaluation experience across a wide range of fields. She has produced many journal publications, conference papers and reports; has secured grants from various funding bodies; and acts as a reviewer for national and international journals, conferences and granting bodies. Sallie’s main area of research interest is the social determinants of health & wellbeing across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on the crucial role of early childhood experiences and relationships on individuals’ developmental, educational, psychosocial, health & wellbeing outcomes throughout their lives – with a positive childhood ultimately resulting in improved participation & success within the education system, the workforce, personal relationships and community involvement. Sallie’s other main passion is working with organisations to help develop their understanding, skills and confidence in using research evidence and practical, commonsense evaluation techniques to plan, develop and continuously monitor & improve their services.
Reports
Tweed yarn up group for indigenous men: a pilot program & evaluation, (2013)
This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the first implementation of the Tweed...
Child-led research: a pilot of the Today and Tomorrow Research Program (with Anne Graham), Centre for Children and Young People (2012)
The pilot Child-Led Research Program was developed with the overall aim of ‘building children and...
Supporting students' classroom behaviour: an evaluation of microskills training & observation process (with Tony Yeigh), School of Education (2012)
Building capacity for ethical research with children and young people: an international research project to examine the ethical issues and challenges in undertaking research with and for children in different majority and minority world contexts (with Mary Ann Powell, Anne Graham, Nicola J. Taylor, and Robyn Fitzgerald), Centre for Children and Young People (2011)
The Childwatch International Research Network is a global, non-profit, non-governmental network of institutions that collaborate...
Evaluating Interrelate's School Education Programs: consolidated report (with Wendy Britt and Anne Graham), Centre for Children and Young People (2011)
In working towards their vision of being a ‘lighthouse’ organisation for recognising children, Interrelate offers...
Journal articles
A letter from Australia – The potential of a ‘wraparound’ approach to reducing juvenile offending in New South Wales (with Ian A. Nisbet and Anne Graham), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2012)
This article reports on the Family Inclusion Project, which trialled a ‘Wraparound’ casework approach to...
Using an empowerment evaluation approach with community-based programs (with Anne Graham), Evaluation Journal of Australasia (2012)
Does routine assessment and real-time feedback improve cancer patients' psychosocial well-being? (with Allison W. Boyes, Afaf Girgis, Patrick McElduff, and Rob William Sanson-Fisher), European Journal of Cancer Care (2006)
This study examined the effectiveness of giving medical oncologists immediate feedback about cancer patients’ self-reported...
The Tooty Fruity Vegie project: changing knowledge and attitudes about fruits and vegetables (with Anna D. Huddy, Jillian K. Adams, Margaret Miller, Libby Holden, and Uta C. Dietrich), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (2004)
Objectives: The Tooty Fruity Vegie (TFV) project was a multi-strategic, school-based intervention aimed at preventing...
Fruits and vegies in lunchboxes - accuracy of a prospective 24 hour food record for primary school children (with Anna D. Huddy, Jillian K. Adams, Libby Holden, Eric van Beurden, and Uta C. Dietrich), Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2003)
Objective: To assess the accuracy of the lunchbox component of parent-completed food records for primary...
Books
A happy, healthy mob: raising confident resilient jarjums (with Debra Rhodes), (2007)
In Aboriginal families our kinship is strong. We learn our parenting and social knowledge from...
My family (by Children of Lismore & Goonellabah), (2007)
Welcome to this unique, local book featuring young children’s pictures and thoughts about their families....
Book chapters
Population health psychology: the new challenge (with Rob William Sanson-Fisher), Clinical psychology: profession and practice in Australia (1996)
Conference publications
Evaluating community-based programs: challenges and lessons from the front-line (with Anne Graham and Judy Cashmore), 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference (2008)
Over recent years, government funding for communitybased support programs has increasingly been directed through non-government...
Engaging parents in the Goonellabah Transition Program (with Kimberlii Austen-Baker), 4th National Indigenous Education Conference (2006)
Project Overview & Aims: The GTP is an early learning program for children needing additional...
The ECHIDNA project: progress update on a collaborative project promoting self-determination in Indigenous communities (with Anthony Franks, Kimberlii Austen-Baker, Donna Lloyd, Laurel Rogers, and Uta C. Dietrich), 18th International Union for Health Promotion and Education Conference (2004)
Tooty Fruity Vegie: results from phases I & II (with Jillian K. Adams, Anna D. Huddy, Libby Holden, and Uta C. Dietrich), 18th International Union for Health Promotion and Education Conference (2004)
Reducing health inequity: the changing role of health promotion (with Uta C. Dietrich and Donna Lloyd), Australian Health Promotion Association NSW State Conference (2003)
Other presentations & workshops
Overview of the 'Parenting Lismore's Way' activities & resources, Lismore & Murwillumbah Communities for Children Forum (2007)
Overview of the evaluation model for the Goonellabah Transition Program (with Kimberlii Austen-Baker), Secretariat of National. Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Workshop: Using our Knowledge(s) to Grow Up Strong Kids (2006)
Update on the evaluation model and progress for the Lismore and Murwillumbah Communities for Children sites (with Deb McCarthy), Stronger Families & Communities Strategy: National Communities for Children Forum (2006)
Update on the evaluation model for the Goonellabah Transition Program (with Kimberlii Austen-Baker), Stronger Families & Communities Strategy: National Invest to Grow Evaluation Workshop (2006)
Reconnecting Families Program: training phase evaluation (with Eric van Beurden, Anthony Franks, Denise Hughes, Chris Binge, and Donna Lloyd), Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health Research Seminar (2006)
Theses
Assessing the effectiveness of personal health record booklets at increasing preventive and screening behaviours for cancer and cardiovascular disease, PhD thesis, University of Newcastle, NSW (1995)
The ultimate aim of this thesis was to assess the effectiveness of Personal Health Record...