In this blog post, QUT School of Early childhood researcher, Kate Williams talks about parenting and its influence on children’s self-regulation, and ways in which early childhood professionals can best engage parents around this topic. Self-regulation is the ways in which we all regulate our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviour so that we can be […]
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Kate Williams is an Associate Professor and Leader of the Centre for Child and Family Studies at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research program works at the interface of health and education to address inequalities that first arise in early childhood, often due to early adversity. Her primary research focuses on children’s development of self-regulation, the parenting, educational, and intervention contexts that support such, and associated longitudinal outcomes. Kate is also an interventionist, having designed and tested several early childhood and parenting interventions and professional learning programs for early childhood teachers and educators.