The W.D. Borrie Prize is awarded each year by the Australian Population Association for the best student paper on a population-related topic. Prizes for 2010 were awarded to Kim Johnstone, PhD candidate, and Brian Opeskin, Master of Social Research student, both with ADSRI.

Kim Johnstone was awarded the PhD W.D. Borrie Prize for her paper, ‘Towards a conceptual framework of Indigenous fertility in Australia’. Judges Nick Parr and Fei Guo of Macquarie University said: 'This essay makes an ambitious attempt to formulate a conceptual framework for explaining contemporary indigenous fertility. It is very well written and based on an extremely detailed and wide-ranging review of the literature on this important topic.'

The Masters/Honours/GradDip W.D. Borrie Prize was awarded to Brian Opeskin, for his paper, ‘Managing international migration in liberal democracies’. Judges Andrew Taylor and Dean Carson of Charles Darwin University said, ‘This was a most interesting paper to read, demonstrating a high level of academic thinking and process.’

Both Kim and Brian are former W.D. Borrie Prize winners: Kim in 2009 and Brian in 2007.

The Australian Population Association sponsors the W.D. Borrie Prize to promote the study of population-related issues in all academic disciplines. The prize is named for Professor W.D. Borrie (1913-2000), Australia's first full-time academic researcher in demography. Entries are accepted from students enrolled in an Australian or New Zealand tertiary institution.

5 April 2011