Matheson, I. (2025, June 24). Rethinking the purpose of youth detention: Getting it right for children and systems [Webinar]. Research Centre for Better Outcomes for Fostering and Residential Care.
WEBINAR SLIDES: YOUTH DETENTION
Matheson, I. (2025, 28 January). Oral submission to the Social Services and Community Select Committee on the Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill. Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament [2025/02/12 - SCC subcommittee A
(Part 1)]. https://vimeo.com/showcase/10758270
SELECT COMMITTEE ORAL SUBMISSION: BOOT CAMPS
Matheson, I. (2025, 9 January). Written submission to the Social Services and Community Select Committee on the Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill. Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament.
SELECT COMMITTEE WRITTEN SUBMISSION: BOOT CAMPS
Matheson, I. (2025). Aotearoa New Zealand. In T. Refaeli, & V. Mann-Feder (Eds.), Leaving care around the world. Oxford University Press.
Book chapter: transitioning from OOHC & detention
Matheson, I. (2024, June 21). The power and potential of education to change lives for the better: Is it being sufficiently harnessed for children in out-of-home care? [Workshop presentation]. Doing School Differently 2024, Brisbane, QLD, Australian Association for Flexible and Inclusive Education.
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: RESIDENTIAL & FOSTER CARE
Matheson, I. (2024, June 20). Beyond bars: Building better youth justice systems around the world [Keynote presentation]. Doing School Differently 2024, Brisbane, QLD, Australian Association for Flexible and Inclusive Education.
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SLIDES: YOUTH DETENTION
Matheson, I. (2023). Supporting the education of tamariki [children] and rangatahi [youth] with Oranga Tamariki involvement: Best international practice literature scan. Oranga Tamariki – New Zealand Ministry for Children.
LITERATURE SCAN: EDUCATION & OUT-OF-HOME CARE
Matheson, I. (2023). A guide for Tertiary Education Organisations on supporting care experienced learners. Tertiary Education Commission.
GUIDANCE: EDUCATION & TRANSITIONING FROM CARE
Matheson, I. (2023). International best practice and models for youth justice residences. Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children.
EVIDENCE BRIEF: youth detention centres best practice
Matheson, I. (2023). Physical restraint and de-escalation: Best international practice as applicable to secure youth justice residences. Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children.
EVIDENCE BRIEF: youth detention centres & restraint
Matheson, I. (2022). Celebrating 20 residential child care developments from across the world. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 21(2).
JOURNAL ARTICLE: RESIDENTIAL CARE
Matheson, I. (2022, July 11-14). Restraining children and youth: What the research tells us [Conference presentation slides]. Sixty-sixth annual conference of the Association of Children’s Residential and Community Services, Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: RESIDENTIAL CARE
Matheson, I. & McNamara, T. (2022, July 11-14). As essential staff in therapeutic residential care, what is your education story and why does it matter? [Conference presentation slides]. Association of Children’s Residential and Community Services’, Essential staff in therapeutic residential care international conference, hosted online from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EDUCATION
Matheson, I. (2021, August 3-6). Leveraging residential care global learning to improve quality [Conference presentation slides]. Sixty-fifth annual conference of the Association of Children’s Residential and Community Services, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
https://togetherthevoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PowerPoint-Leveraging-Residential-Care.pdf
CONFERENCE SLIDES: RESIDENTIAL CARE
Matheson, I. (2021, September 1-3). The extended foster care evidence base: Needing and valuing children and young people’s perspectives [Conference presentation slides]. Sixteenth biennial international conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF), hosted online from Zurich, Switzerland.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EXTENDED FOSTER CARE
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EDUCATION
Matheson, I., McNamara, T., & Humphries, J, (2021, September 1-3). Professional development to enhance education outcomes for Australasian children and young people in out-of-home care [Conference presentation slides]. Sixteenth biennial international conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF), hosted online from Zurich, Switzerland.
Matheson, I. (2021). Leveraging out-of-home care global learning.
WEBINAR SUPPORT MATERIAL: Global Learning
Matheson, I. (2020). Summary of slipping down ladders and climbing up snakes: The experiences of New Zealand university students formerly in foster care - doctoral thesis, University of Otago (2nd ed.).
doctoral RESEARCH: care leavers,care, and education
Article: Leadership
Matheson, I. (2020). Ten things residential and foster care managers must remember they already know about leading through uncertainty [LinkedIn article].
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-residential-foster-care-managers-must-already-matheson
bOOK CHAPTER: TRANSITIONING FROM Care AND EDUCATION
Matheson, I. (2019). Education success factors and barriers: Learning from the experiences of New Zealand care leavers who went to university. In T. McNamara, S. Wise, & C. Montserrat, Education in out-of-home care: International perspectives on policy, practice and research (pp. 267-281). Springer.
Matheson, I. (2019, August 27-28). International experience on formal and informal extended care [Symposium plenary slides]. Homestretch Symposium, Sydney, Australia.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EXTENDED FOSTER CARE
ARTICLE: EXTENDED CARE
Matheson, I. (2019). Ten evidence-based reasons for extending foster care beyond eighteen years (LinkedIn article]. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-evidence-based-reasons-extending-foster-care-beyond-matheson/
Matheson, I. (2018, September 1-3). Extending care from 18 to 21: Towards an international evidence base [Conference presentation slides]. Fifteenth biennial international conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF), Porto, Portugal.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EXTENDED FOSTER CARE
Matheson, I. (2018, August 20-22). Effecting successful system-wide change: Towards a quality education for all children and young people in out-of-home care [Conference presentation slides]. Biennial conference of the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies, Sydney, Australia.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EDUCATION
Matheson, I. & Kendrick, A. (2018, August 20-22). Giving voice to perspectives of residential child care: Some reflections on the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care [Conference presentation slides]. Biennial conference of the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies, Sydney, Australia.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: RESIDENTIAL CARE
Matheson, I. & McDonald, P. (2018, August 20-22). Extending care from 18 to 21: Towards an Australasian evidence base [Conference presentation slides]. Biennial conference of the Association of Children's Welfare Agencies, Sydney, Australia.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EXTENDED FOSTER CARE
BOOK CHAPTER: RESIDENTIAL AND FOSTER CARE
Matheson, I. (2016). State of indifference? An overview of residential and foster care in New Zealand. In T. Islam & L. Fulcher (Eds.), Residential child and youth care in a developing world: Global perspectives (pp. 311-328). CYC-Net Press.
Matheson, I. (2016, September 13-16). The experiences of New Zealand care leavers who went to university: Slipping down ladders and climbing up snakes [Conference presentation slides with audio clips]. Fourteenth biennial international conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF), Oviedo, Spain.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: EDUCATION
ARTICLE: EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN CARE
Matheson, I. (2016). The importance of individual personal factors: The experiences of care leavers who went to university [Special issue]. Developing Practice, 46, 42-54.
Matheson, I. (Ed.) (2016). The education of children in out-of-home care [Special double issue]. Developing Practice, 46.
https://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;py=2016;res=IELHSS;issn=1445-6818;iss=46
EDITED JOURNAL: EDUCATION & OUT-OF-HOME CARE
Matheson, I. (Ed.) (2016). The education of children in out-of-home care [Special double issue]. Developing Practice, 45.
https://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;py=2016;res=IELHSS;issn=1445-6818;iss=45
EDITED JOURNAL: EDUCATION & OUT-OF-HOME CARE
ARTICLE: linkEDIN EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN CARE NETWORK
Matheson, I., Brady, E., & Connelly, G. (2016). Social media meets international Community of Interest: The LinkedIn Education of Children in Care Network. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care 16(1), 49-55.
https://www.celcis.org/files/7514/6054/8503/005._2016_Vol_15_1_Matheson_Social_Media.pdf
Matheson, I. (2015, October 22). The Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel's interim report: The good, the bad and the potentially ugly - part two [Re-Imagining Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand guest blog post].
GUEST BLOG: The Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel's interim report (Part 2)
GUEST BLOG: The Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel's interim report (Part 1)
Matheson, I. (2015, October 19). The Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel's interim report: The good, the bad and the potentially ugly - part one [Re-Imagining Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand guest blog post].
REPORT: education & OUT-OF-HOME CARE
Matheson, I. & Connelly, G. (2012). The education of looked after children in Scotland: Some comparisons with Scandinavian countries and Finland. Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland.
Matheson, I. (2011, July 12-17). Education of children and young people: Research on what works. [Conference presentation slides]. World conference of the International Foster Care Organisation, Victoria, British Columbia.
CONFERENCE SLIDES: FOSTER CARE
ARTICLE: FOSTER CARER recruitment
Matheson, I. (2010). Recruitment of foster families: Lessons from international research. Canada's Children, 17(2), 11-18.
Matheson, I. (2009, July 12-17). Foster care standards in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the UK [Conference plenary slides]. World conference of the International Foster Care Organisation, Dublin, Ireland.