Director

Anne Kennedy is a highly respected and experienced consultant in the early childhood sector. Her consultancy work follows extensive experience as an early childhood teacher and academic working in university based teacher education programs in Australia, Sweden, Singapore and the USA.

Anne is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Graduate School of Education. She is a Board member of the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO), and the Victorian Children’s Council, and a Trustee of the Creswick Foundation. In 2021 she was appointed to the Australian government Ministerial Preschool Measure Expert Advisory Group. She is a member of the Victorian government Best Start, Best Life task force advisory group established in 2022.

Anne is Co- Director of Research and Practice for the Parkville Institute, which was established to support the implementation of an intensive, high quality early childhood education and care program in three sites and an additional co-designed model with an Aboriginal controlled and led child and family service. The program achieved remarkable learning and development outcomes for young children living with significant social disadvantage and risk factors in the trial phase of the research. Anne’s involvement in this research project has confirmed her belief in the importance of robust evidence to support policy and practice reforms that can improve equity in children’s outcomes and life trajectories.