Brittany Child

Research and Evaluation Officer

Brittany Child

Research and Evaluation Officer

BPsych (Hons)

brittany.child@thekids.org.au

https://au.linkedin.com/in/brittanychild

Brittany is a Research and Evaluation Officer in the Early Years Systems Evidence team. In this role, she is responsible for quantitative data analysis and report writing across a range of projects focused on the health and wellbeing of young children.

Brittany is nearing completion of her PhD in cognitive psychology at Adelaide University (formerly University of Adelaide). Broadly, her PhD research focused on better characterising the relationship between motor symptom profile and cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease, with the goal of improving prognostic accuracy. As part of this work, Brittany developed a novel, objective motor assessment battery and used data from this battery to identify motor subtypes of Parkinson’s disease using data-driven clustering methods. During her PhD, Brittany also contributed to several large systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which gave her the opportunity to gain expertise in conducting multi-level meta-analyses.

Prior to commencing at The Kids Research Institute Australia, Brittany was a Statistical Analyst at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and a Lab Manager in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab at the University of Adelaide. As a Lab Manager, she was involved in several large, overlapping research projects investigating cognitive function in healthy ageing, Parkinson’s disease, and following traumatic brain injury. During her time at the University of Adelaide, Brittany also spent several years as a Senior Tutor in the School of Psychology, primarily teaching research methods and statistics.

Education and Qualifications

Bachelor of Psychology (First Class Honours) – University of Adelaide

Awards/Honours

2022 – School of Psychology Excellence in Tutoring Award, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2019 – School of Psychology Prize, Florey Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2019 – WASAA Group Travel Scholarship, Embassy of France, Australia
2018 – Complex Human Data School Travel Scholarship, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2017 – Australian Psychological Society (APS) Prize in Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2017 – Vacation Research Scholarship, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2017 – University of Adelaide Honours Scholarship, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2016 – Roby Fletcher Munn Prize for Psychology III, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2016 – CB Martin Prize for a Philosophy Major, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2015 – Norman Munn Prize for Psychology II, University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2015 – Summer Research Scholarship, University of Adelaide, Adelaide