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Heather Booth is Associate Professor of Demography. Heather is Founding Editor of the Journal of Population Research (JPR), an international peer-reviewed journal launched in 2000, which she edited from 2000 to 2006.
Heather began her career at the London School of Economics before moving to the USA to join the POPLAB program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After completing her doctoral studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she undertook research on ethnic minority populations in Britain and Western Europe. In 1984, Heather relocated to Nouméa, New Caledonia to take up a position as demographer with the South Pacific Commission, working throughout the Pacific Islands. She later worked as an international consultant for a wide range of funding agencies. After migrating to Australia, she joined the ANU Demography and Sociology Program in 1998.
Research
Heather’s main research interests are in
Heather is a Chief Investigator on the $2million NHMRC/ARC Project Learning How to Age Well from Longitudinal Studies of Ageing (2007-2012) and represents ANU in the IARU theme Ageing, Longevity and Health.
In addition, Heather retains an interest in the demography of the Pacific Islands, in particular
Heather has also written three books and other publications on migration and ethnic minority populations, as well as numerous papers on demographic estimation and gender statistics. In her doctoral research, she developed the Booth Standard for use with the Relational Gompertz Model of fertility.
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