Associate Professor Marg Rogers

Biography

Dr Marg Rogers is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England. Marg has taught across all areas of education: early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary. Marg researches marginalised voices within families and education, especially in regional, rural and remote communities. Specifically, she researches ways to support the wellbeing of Defence, veteran, and first responder families and early childhood educators. Marg is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Manna Institute that is building place-based research capacity to improve the mental health of regional, rural and remote Australians.

Marg is the lead researcher for the Child and Family Resilience Programs. Along with their Steering Committee of affected community and partners, this team has co-created award-winning, research-based, free, online, evaluated resources for educators, parents and support workers to better support children from Australian Defence, veteran, first responder and remote worker families. Many of these resources are currently being culturally adapted for Canadian families in collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Military Health Research, the Canadian Forces Morale Welfare Service, the Atlas Institute for Veterans and their Families and other Canadian partners and those with lived and living experience. New resources are being co-created with these partners, along with Combat Stress, and the Kings Centre for Military Health Research (UK) and their affected communities and partners.

Marg also leads an international study called 'Early Childhood Educators work within a highly regulated environment' with colleagues from Denmark, Italy, Georgia and Canada.