Dr Madonna Boman
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

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Enhancing Children’s Journeys through Out-of-home Care Australian Research Council Linkage Grant |
Journal Articles
Boman, Madonna (2025). Relationships and identity: an ethnographic study with young people in South‐East Queensland who had left out‐of‐home care. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 60 (3), 734-746. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.70021
Healy, Karen, Simpson Reeves, Laura, Boman, Madonna, Kolesnikova, Iryna, Povey, Jenny, Venables, Jemma, Baxter, Janeen and Thompson, Kate (2024). The social and emotional wellbeing of children in out-of-home care: a scoping review exploring structural and social factors. Children and Youth Services Review, 166 107991, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107991
Venables, Jemma, Povey, Jenny, Kolesnikova, Iryna, Thompson, Kate, Boman, Madonna, Richmond, Juli, Healy, Karen, Baxter, Janeen, Thwaite, Isobel and Hussain, Aariyana (2024). Children in out-of-home care's right to family and cultural connection: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian children's perspectives. Child Abuse and Neglect, 162 (Pt 1) 107009, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107009
Healy, Karen, Venables, Jemma, Povey, Jenny, Baxter, Janeen, Scull, Sue, Thompson, Kate and Boman, Madonna (2024). The emotional terrain of foster and kinship carers’ relationships with parents of children in care: carers’ perspectives. Children and Youth Services Review, 161 107672, 107672. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107672
Venables, Jemma, Povey, Jenny, Boman, Madonna, Healy, Karen, Baxter, Janeen, Austerberry, Sophie and Thompson, Kate (2023). Navigating the Australian child protection system: the importance of formal and informal support for carers to effectively provide care to children in out‐of‐home care. Child and Family Social Work, 30 (2), 237-250. doi: 10.1111/cfs.13106
Boman, Madonna (2022). Relationships with family members and transition from out-of-home care: unfinished business. Children and Youth Services Review, 143 (The Future of Children 20 1 2010) 106662, 106662. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106662
Conference Paper
Venables, Jemma, Povey, Jenny, Kolesnikova, Iryna, Thompson, Kate, Boman, Madonna, Healy, Karen and Baxter, Janeen (2024). Voices of children in out-of-home: their experiences of family and cultural connection. Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 11-14 June 2024.
Research Report
Boman, Madonna (2021). Summary of key findings: Risky transitions - leaving out-of-home care in SE Qld. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Life Australia Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course.
Thesis
Boman, Madonna Marie (2020). Risky transitions: leaving out-of-home care in South East Queensland. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/a0efa17