Amy Gill is a mixed-methods social researcher and policy advisor with over a decade of experience in the academic, non-profit, and government sectors. She is deeply committed to bridging the gap between research, policy, and practice in child and family services.
In 2024, Amy was conferred with a PhD from the University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work in 2024. Her PhD research consisted of a three-phase, mixed-methods study exploring service responses to early parenthood within the context of out-of-home care in New South Wales.
Amy’s other research interests include trauma-informed education; organisational change; professional capacity building; life course perspectives of out-of-home care; cross-system collaboration; programme evaluation; and survivor-led participatory methods.
Amy is a passionate advocate for child protection sector reform and translating lived experience into strengths-based social policy. As a care-experienced mother, reflexivity and positionality are central to her work.
