Learn about GenV: your opportunity to create a healthier future GenV is a research project for expecting parents and newborn babies, happening from 2021 to 2023 in Victoria. If you join, you will contribute to healthier children, parents, and families in the future.
Improving care and development through world-class research GenV will work in partnership with Victoria’s health organisations to collect data that will enhance researchers' capacity to understand patient outcomes.
Comprehensive research for precision policy and service delivery GenV aims to transform how we conduct research into health and wellbeing, establishing the foundations for new approaches to data-led policy and strategy development, and the strengthening of service delivery.
Our achievements, partners and key people Learn more about GenV’s collaborative partnerships with leading universities, institutes, and service providers, and meet the people who help to bring our exciting vision to life.
Home\About GenV\The GenV student and volunteer program\Honours/Masters projects Back Honours/Masters projects Honours/Masters projects Interested? Reach out to supervisors to ask about a project, or to GenV’s Student Coordinator for general enquiries about Honours/Masters projects. The impact of government policies on maternity and newborn outcomes The impact of government policies on maternity and newborn outcomesProject description: The impacts of policy – federal, state, local – on the life chances of individuals and communities can be profound but hard to pin down. GenV is a whole-of-Victoria cohort of nearly 50,000 children and their parents recruited Oct 2021-Oct 2023. Its unique features could shed light on policy cause and effect – notably, the cohort’s very large size and diversity (with all Victorian population groups represented) and inclusion of all localities and services (with areas varying in when and what policy is implemented). Additionally, many natural experiments arose from its establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic, with its seismic policy changes during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood and parenthood life stages. This Honours student will create a temporal and spatial map of major policy changes across Victoria from 2018 to 2023, and use causal and area-variation analytic techniques to study their likely impacts for new parents and babies at GenV recruitment. Supervisors: Prof Melissa Wake, Naomi Schwarz, Prof Sharon Goldfeld