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ADSRI 2008 Seminars Archive
Current seminars
2007 Seminar Archive
| April |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 4
1.00 - 4.30pm
Visions Theatre
National Museum
of Australia |
TOYOTA-ANU PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2008
Closing the Gaps in Indigenous Mortality & Housing: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
1.00-2.30pm The Infant Mortality Challenge
Dr Elizabeth Sullivan, Associate Professor Heather Booth, Professor Francesca Merlan
3.00-4.30pm The Indigenous Housing Challenge
Dr Nicholas Biddle, Dr Will Sanders, Professor Paul Memmott
More information
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Monday 7
12.30-2pm
Seminar Room C |
New Fertility Behaviour in Eastern Europe:
How it has Emerged and Future Prospects
Case Studies of Bulgaria, Hungary and Georgia
Marion Burkimsher
LaboDémo, University of Geneva
More information
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| May |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 16
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Co-morbidity of Suicides in Australia
Dr Lado Ruzicka, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences &
Dr Ching Choi, ADSRI |
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Friday 23
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New Research Directions Using Historical Census data for Great Britain
Professor Kevin Schurer
Director of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and the UK Data Archive (UKDA), University of Essex |
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Friday 30
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Indigenous Fertility in the Northern Territory: PhD Thesis Proposal Seminar
Ms Kim Johnstone
PhD Candidate
Abstract
Official data sources in Australia show declining Indigenous fertility over several decades and young childbearing with notably high teenage fertility rates. State and territory comparisons show significant differences across the country, with Indigenous women in the Northern Territory having higher fertility levels at all ages than women in other parts of Australia. Understanding of the dynamics of Australian Indigenous fertility, however, is less comprehensive than our understanding for non-Indigenous Australians. This seminar outlines research looking at twenty years of Indigenous fertility change in the Northern Territory and explores the hypothesis that fertility decline may be an artefact of changing population counts used in the denominator to calculate the rates. It explores methodologies for a non-Indigenous demographer, that are culturally appropriate and contribute to our understanding of demographic change. |
| June |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 6
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Redefining Family Planning Through Decentralization in Indonesia
Professor Terence Hull
Professor of Demography, ADSRI
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Friday 13
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Family Planning and the Mortality Risk of Children in Indonesia
Dr Ranjan Shrestha
Department of Economics
University of Montana
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Friday 20
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Health Policy and Practice in Myanmar: A Civil Society Perspective
Dr Helen James
ADSRI
Abstract
Even before the devastating cyclone hit Myanmar on 3 May, the country's health system was under severe stress, despite the best efforts of professionals and civil society groups to provide health and social welfare services in an environment of constant government underfunding. In a country where one third of children suffer malnutrition and between 25 and 50% of the population survive on less than USD1 per day, the domestic civil society sector has an essential role to play in assisting vulnerable people. This seminar provides a snapshot of the health sector in Myanmar just prior to the cyclone and analyzes the prospects for longer term improvement in poverty alleviation and human security in this country which is one of the poorest in the world.
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Friday 27
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Ideals about Government Expenditure - Two Decades of Australian Survey Evidence
Dr Joanna Sikora
Department of Sociology
School of Social Sciences, ANU
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| July |
Presenter and Topic |
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Thursday 17
12.30-2.00pm
Seminar Room C |
GIS for Measuring Product Performance and Strategic Planning: Mapping Condom Coverage, Quality of coverage and Access to Condoms in HIV Risk Zone in Nepal
Dr Prakash D. Pant
Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Advisor
Academy for Educational Development
Nepal
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Friday 18
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Changing Approaches to Social Protection in SE Asia
Professor Terence Hull,
ADSRI,
Dr Robert Ackland, ADSRI
and
Professor Peter Heywood
Honorary Professor of International Health, University of Sydney
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Wednesday 23
12.30-2.00pm
Seminar Room A |
Family Court Dispute Resolution Meetings: A Micro Analysis of Process
Dr Liz Trinder
School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
Newcastle University, UK
Abstract and biography
**Please RSVP to the Seminar Organiser, Jenny White by COB Monday 21 July for this seminar.
T: (02) 61253629 or E: Jenny.White@anu.edu.au |
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| September |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 12
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Immigrant Residential Patterns in Australian Cities, 1986-2006 - PhD Proposal Seminar
Barbara Edgar
PhD Candidate,
ADSRI |
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Friday 26
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Repartnering and Well-being of Lone Mothers in the UK
Alex Skew
University of Southampton, UK |
| November |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 7
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Gender and Well-being of Older Persons in Indonesia (PhD Proposal Seminar)
Safrina Thristiawati
PhD Candidate, ADSRI |
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Monday 17
Seminar Room B
2.30 - 4 pm |
Carving the Future: Preventing Today's Youth from Becoming Tomorrow's HIV/AIDS Victims (PhD Proposal Seminar)
Wienta Diarsvitri
PhD Candidate, ADSRI
Please note date and venue |
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Friday 21
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Consuming Illegality: Migration, Labor and Agriculture into the 21st Century (PhD Final Seminar)
Jennifer Blakeslee
PhD Candidate, ADSRI
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Friday 28
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Female Marriage Migration in Taiwan (PhD Proposal Seminar)
Wen-Ju Tsai
PhD Candidate, ADSRI
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| December |
Presenter and Topic |
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Friday 5
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Patterns and Determinants of Age at Marriage of Terai Women of Nepal (PhD Mid-term Seminar)
Nepali Sah
PhD Candidate, ADSRI |
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Friday 19
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Fertility Decline and Population Trends in Japan
Professor Kohei Wada
Faculty of Economics, Chuo University
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