Media Release:

Introducing the Nought to Five Motherhood Study

Calling Australian mums: do you feel your voice isn't being heard? The Nought to Five Motherhood Study wants to hear from you! The Nought to Five Study aims to provide a snapshot of life for modern Aussie mums with children under the age of five. This study into contemporary motherhood will help us learn more about what it is like to be a mum of children aged 0-5 in today's Australia, and to discover how mums really think and feel about motherhood. To sign up for the study visit www.yousexymother.com.au – the survey will be launched in early 2009, with results to be published later this year.

If you're a mum with children aged five and over, or a woman without kids, and you're saying "What about me? When will my voice be heard?", then never fear! While mums of children 0-5 years are our primary focus for this study, we want to know how women outside this cohort group are experiencing life also. We would like to have all women participate. Just follow along the questionnaire and answer the questions that apply to you. We will measure the responses from those with children in the 0-5 age bracket against those mothers with older children and those women with no children. Your responses will help inform policy developments in Australia and will form the basis of a new book to be released in 2010. All questionnaires are submitted electronically and anonymously.

Profiles

Jodie Hedley-Ward
Jodie Hedley-Ward holds a Master of Business degree, a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in management. After finishing university, she worked in Hong Kong where she met her husband David and then continued to travel and work in various marketing positions internationally. She returned to her homeland, New Zealand, where her two children Lili and Josh were born, before moving to Australia's Sunshine Coast in 2007. Her first book, You Sexy Mother (Exisle Publishing) was published in 2008.

Jodie initiated the You Sexy Mother Research Study in conjunction with the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2008. The research will provide ongoing insights into the reality of the experience of motherhood for women today and findings will be incorporated into Jodie's upcoming books, speaking engagements, mentoring and consulting work.

Jodie's current projects include:

• You Sexy Mother workshops, events and speaking engagements
• Mentoring programme
• The You Sexy Mother Research Study

Dr Angela Huntsman
Dr Angela Huntsman holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a California licensed/American Psychological Association accredited clinical psychologist as well as a Queensland registered psychologist and full member of the Australia Psychological Society (APS) and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.

Dr Huntsman has practiced clinical psychology for 17 years specialising in evaluation and assessment within individual, family, government and organisational settings; within private, public and non-for-profit sectors.

Dr Huntsman earned her BA in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and both her Master's and Ph.D. at Biola University in California.

Angela's doctoral dissertation was titled: The relationship of self-controlling skills to personal and social adjustment in elementary school-aged children.

Dr Huntsman has two areas of sub-specialty within her broad clinical practice: Child and family assessment and treatment along with organisational evaluation and assessment.

Along with her clinical practice, Dr Huntsman spent 7 years teaching at UCLA Medical School, with Dr Michael Wilkes and Dr Jerome Hoffman in their innovative Doctoring programme, designed to teach communication and health economics to medical students.

Dr Huntsman's current areas of research interest are: Autonomy, competence, and relatedness and the relationship of these core organismic psychological needs to various areas of human motivation and performance (parenting, leadership, teaching, learning, attachment, and migration).

She is frequently asked to speak on the subject of assessment, communication, motivation and performance.

Dr Huntsman is currently a member of the Sunshine Coast Mental Health Foundation Steering Committee and is Jodie Hedley-Ward's research partner for the nationwide research project in early motherhood.

Mum Zone Release Date: 17th February 2009

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