Dr. Tim Moore is a Senior Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH), Melbourne, Australia.

Tim trained as a teacher and psychologist at the University of Melbourne, subsequently completing his Doctoral studies at the University of Surrey on selfesteem and self-concept in children. He has worked as an educational and developmental psychologist for over 30 years, both in Australia and England. He has worked in a variety of settings, including regular schools, special schools and early childhood intervention centres. He has worked at CCCH since 2000.

Tim works in CCCH’s Programs and Service Development Unit, one of the Centres’ three operational units. The Programs Unit works closely with communities to support and strengthen their work with families to bring about the best outcomes for children. It aims to refocus community programs towards prevention and early intervention, and ensure that programs directed at young children and their families are better integrated, coordinated and evidence based.

Tim’s own contribution to this exercise is to synthesise findings from multiple disciplines: rather than conducting empirical research that improves our understanding of the world by creating new knowledge, he seeks to improve understanding by bringing together existing knowledge from different disciplines (including developmental psychology, sociology, ecology, biology, neurology, epidemiology, genetics), and fields of practice (including psychology, psychiatry, medicine, social work, education, early childhood services, disability services, environmental studies).