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Mr Daniel Christensen

Senior Research Assistant

Staff Member Details
Email: d.christensen@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-5782

Background

Daniel has been at Edith Cowan University since 2021 and is a Research Fellow in the Maladjiny Research Centre. Prior to joining ECU, Daniel worked for Telethon Kids Institute and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Daniel specialises in linked data analyses and large-scale longitudinal studies of children’s health, development, education, and wellbeing. His primary research interest is the impact of multiple disadvantage on children and their families. His most recent work has focused on the circumstances of Aboriginal children discharged from hospitals and emergency departments against medical advice. He has also worked on a range of projects using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, including the development of children's receptive vocabulary, adolescent mental health, and determinants of school readiness and academic performance.

Other research projects have included working on a collaborative project between the Institute, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the WA Department of Health to develop algorithms for more consistent Indigenous status flags on administrative data sets. He has also worked on several program evaluations, including the evaluation of headspace, and the evaluation of the Tasmanian Child and Family Centres.

Qualifications

  • Master of Science (Applied Statistics), Swinburne University of Technology, 2016.
  • Graduate Certificate of Applied Statistics, Murdoch University, 2009.
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), The University of Western Australia, 1998.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

  • Christensen, D., Gibberd, A., McNamara, B., Eades, S., Shepherd, C., Preen, DB., McAullay, D., Strobel, N. (2023). Hospital and emergency department discharge against medical advice in Western Australian Aboriginal children aged 0–4 years from 2002 to 2018: A cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 37(8), 691-703. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.13018.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Taylor, CL., Christensen, D., Zubrick, SR. (2022). Creating Equitable Opportunities for Language and Literacy Development in Childhood and Adolescence. Language Development: Individual differences in a social context (231-256). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643719.012.
  • Zubrick, SR., Taylor, CL., Christensen, D., Hancock, KJ. (2022). Early Years and Disadvantage: Matching Developmental Circumstances in Populations to Prevention and Intervention Opportunities. Family Dynamics over the Life Course (37-56). Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_3.

Journal Articles

  • Adams, E., Hancock, KJ., Mitrou, F., Christensen, D., Taylor, CL., Zubrick, SR. (2022). Transfers of disadvantage across three generations using latent class associations within families. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57(3), 497-523. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.206.
  • Christensen, D., Taylor, C., Hancock, K., Zubrick, S. (2022). School readiness is more than the child: a latent class analysis of child, family, school and community aspects of school readiness. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57(1), 125-143. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.138.
  • Taylor, C., Christensen, D., Jose, K., Zubrick, S. (2022). Universal child health and early education service use from birth through Kindergarten and developmental vulnerability in the Preparatory Year (age 5 years) in Tasmania, Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57(2), 289-313. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.186.
  • Giallo, R., Seymour, M., Fogarty, A., Feinberg, M., Christensen, D., Gartland, D., Wood, C., Brown, S., Cooklin, A. (2022). Trajectories of interparental conflict and children’s emotional–behavioural functioning at 10–11 years: an Australian population-based study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 31(4), 625-635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01700-7.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Hancock, K., Cave, L., Christensen, D., Mitrou, F., Zubrick, S. (2021). Associations Between Developmental Risk Profiles, Mental Disorders, and Student Absences Among Primary and Secondary Students in Australia. School Mental Health, 13(4), 756-771. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-021-09443-9.
  • Taylor, CL., Christensen, D., Venn, A., Preen, DB., Stafford, J., Hansen, E., Jose, K., Zubrick, SR. (2021). Use of administrative record linkage to examine patterns of universal early childhood health and education service use from birth to Kindergarten (age four years) and developmental vulnerability in the Preparatory Year (age five years) in Tasmania, Australia. International Journal of Population Data Science, 6(3), Article number 3. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v6i3.1681.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Taylor, C., Christensen, D., Stafford, J., Venn, A., Preen, D., Zubrick, S. (2020). Associations between clusters of early life risk factors and developmental vulnerability at age 5: A retrospective cohort study using population-wide linkage of administrative data in Tasmania, Australia. BMJ Open, 10(4), Article number e033795. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033795.
  • Dhamrait, G., Christensen, D., Pereira, G., Taylor, C. (2020). Associations between biological and sociodemographic risks for developmental vulnerability in twins at age 5: A population data linkage study in Western Australia. BMJ Open, 10(10), article number e038846. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038846.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Jose, K., Christensen, D., Van De Lageweg, W., Taylor, C. (2019). Tasmania’s child and family centres building parenting capability: a mixed methods study. Early Child Development and Care, 189(14), 2360-2369. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2018.1455035.
  • Bubonya, M., Cobb-Clark, D., Christensen, D., Johnson, S., Zubrick, S. (2019). The great recession and children’s mental health in Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(4), Article number 537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040537.
  • Taylor, C., Zubrick, S., Christensen, D. (2019). Multiple risk exposures for reading achievement in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 73(5), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211323.
  • Sohrabi, H., Weinborn, M., Laske, C., Bates, K., Christensen, D., Taddei, K., Rainey-Smith, S., Brown, B., Kirby, S., Laws, S., Martins, G., Burnham, S., Bucks, R., Reisberg, B., Lautenschlager, N., Foster, J., Martins, R. (2019). Subjective memory complaints predict baseline but not future cognitive function over three years: results from the Western Australia Memory Study. International Psychogeriatrics, 31(4), 513-525. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610218001072.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Hancock, K., Christensen, D., Zubrick, S. (2018). Development and Assessment of Cumulative Risk Measures of Family Environment and Parental Investments in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 137(2), 665-694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1607-3.
  • Weinborn, M., Bucks, R., Sohrabi, H., Rainey-Smith, S., Brown, B., Kirby, S., Gozt, O., Christensen, D., Savage, G., Laws, S., Taddei, K., Maruff, P., Robertson, J., Ellis, K., Ames, D., Masters, C., Rowe, C., Martins, R. (2018). Trajectories of Irregular Word Reading Ability as a Proxy for Premorbid Intelligence in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Aging: A Longitudinal Study. Psychological Assessment, 30(10), 1308-1316. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000565.
  • Taylor, C., Rice, M., Christensen, D., Blair, E., Zubrick, S. (2018). Prenatal and perinatal risks for late language emergence in a population-level sample of twins at age 2. BMC Pediatrics, 18(1), Article number 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1035-9.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Christensen, D., Fahey, M., Giallo, R., Hancock, K. (2017). Longitudinal trajectories of mental health in Australian children aged 4-5 to 14-15 years. PLoS One, 12(11), Article number e0187974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187974.
  • Christensen, D., Taylor, C., Zubrick, S. (2017). Patterns of multiple risk exposures for low receptive vocabulary growth 4-8 years in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. PLoS One, 12(1), Article number e0168804. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168804.
  • Taylor, C., Jose, K., Van De Lageweg, W., Christensen, D. (2017). Tasmania’s child and family centres: a place-based early childhood services model for families and children from pregnancy to age five. Early Child Development and Care, 187(10), 1496-1510. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2017.1297300.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Christensen, D., Davis, G., Draper, G., Mitrou, F., McKeown, S., Lawrence, D., McAullay, D., Pearson, G., Rikkers, W., Zubrick, SR. (2014). Evidence for the use of an algorithm in resolving inconsistent and missing Indigenous status in administrative data collections. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 49(4), 423-443.

2012

Journal Articles

  • Lawrence, D., Christensen, D., Mitrou, F., Draper, G., Davis, G., McKeown, S., McAullay, D., Pearson, G., Zubrick, SR. (2012). Adjusting for under-identification of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander births in time series produced from birth records: Using record linkage of survey data and administrative data sources. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 12(2012), Article Number 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-90.

Research Projects

  • Taking a data driven approach to ensure equitable health service delivery in the East Metropolitan Health Service region , East Metropolitan Health Service, Aboriginal Health Research Grant 2022, 2023 ‑ 2025, $60,000.
  • Describing primary health care utilisation and medication uptake amongst Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care, Department of Communities and Justice NSW, Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS), 2023 ‑ 2025, $30,000.
  • Developing profiles to support the restoration of Aboriginal children to their families, Department of Communities and Justice NSW, Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS), 2023 ‑ 2025, $30,000.
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