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Professor of Family Studies
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Bruce was born in London to an English mother and American father (Buffalo, NY). He has been working as a social scientist in family law for almost 3 decades. Prior to joining the ANU in March 2007, Bruce worked at the Australian Institute of Family Studies in Melbourne as a Senior Research Fellow. He was a member of the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support (2004-2005), and was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012-2016) to investigate the high conflict post-divorce shared-time family.
In June 2018, he received the Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research Award from the American Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) in recognition of outstanding research and research achievements in the field of family and divorce. In 2021, Bruce and his colleagues were awarded the Meyer Elkin Essay Award for the best article in Family Court Review: COVID-19 in Australia: Impacts on separated families, family law professionals, and family courts.
Bruce is an active member of the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC).
BA, PhD
Expert Panel on Child Support, Department of Social Services
1 Jan 2023 → 30 Jun 2025
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Biddle, N., Gray, M., Jahromi, M., Phillips, B. & Smyth, B.
26/02/24 → 28/06/24
Project: Research
Smyth, B., Bakhurst, M. & Payne, J.
1/03/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Fehlberg, B., Smyth, B. & Natalier, K.
23/03/19 → 30/12/24
Project: Research
1/01/19 → 30/11/19
Project: Research