Dr Bernard Leckning
Senior Research Fellow, Population Health and Wellbeing
Qualifications:
PhD (Epidemiology), Charles Darwin University 2023
Bachelor of Arts Honours, University of New South Wales (UNSW), 2007
Bachelor of Computing Science Honours, University of Technology Sydney, 2000
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Associate
Location:
Biography:
Bernard is experienced in leading large-scale data linkage research across a range of topics. His work aims to brings together lifecourse and systems thinking perspectives to generate new insights into the trajectories and needs of young people and the systems that respond to them.
As part of the Child and Youth Development Research Partnership (CYDRP) team over the last 5 years, Bernard has helped to develop and use a repository of linked administrative data on the health, education, and wellbeing of children and adolescents. From 2024, Bernard has taken on the role of Director of Research for CYDRP, where he plans to lead the data linkage research unit at CCDE to undertake innovative, collaborative, and scientifically rigorous research that is relevant to policy-making, program development, and service delivery for children, young people and their families in the NT.
Bernard is also an Adjunct Fellow in the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, where he will be working with the NSW Child Development Study team.
