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Dr Jennifer St George is a Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences with the University of Newcastle's School of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. She earned her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Newcastle in 2010 through a mixed-methods doctoral study, receiving the Newcastle Institute of Education Thesis Prize and the Callaway Doctoral Award from the Australian Society for Music Education. Her research career began as a qualitative research assistant at the Family Action Centre in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, where she collaborated with Associate Professor Richard Fletcher on projects exploring fathers' roles in family life, child wellbeing, and father-inclusive practices in human services, including the design of an observation tool for father-child rough-and-tumble play interactions. In 2015, she was appointed Senior Lecturer in Family Studies, advancing to Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences in 2022 within the Fathers & Families Research Programme. She supervises higher degree research candidates, excels in NVivo qualitative analysis software, reviews journals in family studies and child development fields, and supports researchers internationally in Canada and the USA. Her research specializations encompass parenting processes, father engagement in child development for ages 0-5, rough-and-tumble play's physiological, neurological, and behavioral impacts, perinatal paternal depression, and service provision for fathers. Methodological expertise includes qualitative, observational, and mixed-methods approaches.