Research School of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture: The measurement of migration and demographic change
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Migration is a key element in driving population change and social change worldwide, yet our understanding of how and why it takes place is often limited because of inadequate or missing data. Moreover, the measurement of migration differs greatly by data source and country. In his inaugural…
Asian demographic time bombs: Population trends and the future of Asian societies
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Public Forum presented by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Crawford School of Public Policy Detail about the fourm Registration is required: crawford.anu.edu.au/events Enquiries E jonathan.cheng@anu.edu.au T 02 6125 2295 Flyer (PDF 98KB)
Changes in employment at older ages in Australia: Trends and differentials
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Presented by: Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute andARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) Abstract Professor Peter McDonald uses results from the 2006 and 2011 Censuses of Australia to examine changes in employment rates at older ages (55 years…
Towards a typology of student migration: Illustrations from student record data for the United Kingdom
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Abstract Around two and half million people attended a higher education institute (HEI) in the United Kingdom (UK) in the 2010/2011 academic year, which is around 4.1% of the total population. Surprisingly, given the importance of higher education very little work has been conducted on the…
Flood governance in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam: Implications of social learning for household and institutional adaptation
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This is a PhD proposal seminar. Thong Tran is a PhD Candidate in ADSRI.
Policy and practice uses of measures of adversity in families with young children
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Many studies of risk factors for poor outcomes in children and parents utilise analytic approaches that estimate the importance of any one factor after adjustment for all other factors. We have developed measures of multiple adversity for families with young children so that the cumulative effect…
Internationalisation in Australian universities: Developing students’ intercultural competence in the Asian century
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Globally, there has been a rapid increase in the numbers of foreign tertiary education students enrolled outside their country of origin in the past decade. The increasing cultural diversity on university campuses, such as in Australia, can potentially contribute to internationalising the outlook…