Prof. Frances Gardner

Senior Research Investigator
Professor, University of Oxford
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Prof Frances Gardner is the Senior Research Investigator for the GPI. She is also a Co-Principal Investigator for Parenting within the Preschool System in Malaysia and a Co-Investigator for Parenting on the Thailand/Myanmar Border and Parenting within the Public Health System in Thailand. She is a Professor of Child and Family Psychology at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention at the University of Oxford. Her 30-year career in parenting research involves developing, testing, and scaling up parenting interventions in many countries, including Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) in low- and middle-income countries, with projects in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Her parenting evaluations and systematic reviews are highly cited (over 17,000 times), including seminal studies of the transportability of parenting interventions across cultures and countries, their essential components, and analyses to understand for whom these interventions are most effective.

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  1. Global, regional, and national minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver death

  2. Drivers of ‘voluntary’ recruitment and challenges for families with adolescents engaged with armed groups: A conceptual framework from Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo

  3. ‘It provides practical tips, practical solutions!’: acceptability, usability, and satisfaction of a digital parenting intervention across African countries

  4. “What does that mean?”: The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool – Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines

  5. WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17: Report of the Systematic Reviews of Evidence

  6. WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 : Report of the reviews for the WHO-INTEGRATE framework

  7. GPI & Universiti Putra Malaysia team meets with KEMAS to introduce GPI study Parenting Within the Preschool System in Malaysia

  8. “Before I was like a Tarzan. But now, I take a pause”: mixed methods feasibility study of the Naungan Kasih parenting program to prevent violence against children in Malaysia

  9. GPI Early Career Researchers Audit DSPI Oxford Lectures

  10. Factors Influencing the Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions with Street-Connected Children and Youth: Two Case Studies from Eldoret, Kenya

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  1. GPI & Universiti Putra Malaysia team meets with KEMAS to introduce GPI study Parenting Within the Preschool System in Malaysia

  2. GPI Early Career Researchers Audit DSPI Oxford Lectures

  3. GPI researchers celebrate together with Naungan Kasih Programme participants

  4. GPI team presents at the Society for Prevention Research conference