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ADSRI Seminars 2008

Current seminars

2007 seminars

January Presenter and Topic

No seminars
February Presenter and Topic
Friday 1
No seminar
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Friday 8
Seminar Room F		 Analysing the Abortion Debate on the Web as an Online Social Movement
Dr Robert Ackland
 ADSRI

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Friday 15
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Thursday 21
2 - 3.30pm
Seminar Room B		 Validity of Death Certificate Data in South Africa: A Case Study of Emalahleni Municipality in Mpumalanga Province (PhD mid-term seminar presentation)
Christine Khoza
PhD Candidate, ADSRI
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Friday 22 Research Instruments: Driving e-Science?
Dr Ralph Schroeder
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Thursday 28
1 - 2.30pm
Seminar Room B		 Evolutionary demography: What comparative studies tell us about human life courses
Dr Debra S. Judge
School of Anatomy & Human Biology
University of Western Australia
Abstract
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Friday 29

No seminar
March Presenter and Topic
Friday 7

Selective Reproduction: Rational Choices or Sensible Decisions
Dr Karen Lawson
Psychology Department, University of Saskatchewan
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Tuesday 11
Seminar Room C
 Men and Women’s Agency and Capabilities to Create a Work Family Balance in Diverse and Changing Institutional Contexts
Professor Barbara Hobson
Chair in Sociology & Gender Studies, Stockholm University
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Wednesday 12
3.30 - 5pm 
Seminar Room A
 Work after Welfare Reform and the Well-being of Children
Dr Ariel Kalil
Director of Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, The Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
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Friday 14
Fieldwork Using the Historical Documents of Edo Era, Japan: A Cultural Anthropological Approach
Shigenobu Sugito
School of Human Sciences, Sugiyama Jogakuen University
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Friday 21
Good Friday - no seminar
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Friday 28
Development, Inequality and Occupational Expectations in Comparative Perspective
Dr Joanna Sikora
Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
More information
April Presenter and Topic
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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Friday 11
  
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Friday 18
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Friday 25
 No seminar - ANZAC Day
May Presenter and Topic Print PDF seminar program
Friday 2
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Friday 9  
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Friday 16
 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
 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

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 Print PDF June seminar program
Friday 6
 Redefining Family Planning Through Decentralization in Indonesia
Professor Terence Hull
Professor of Demography, ADSRI
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Friday 13
 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
 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
 Ideals about Government Expenditure - Two Decades of Australian Survey Evidence
Dr Joanna Sikora
Department of Sociology
School of Social Sciences, ANU
July Presenter and Topic Print PDF seminar program
Friday 4
 No seminar
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Friday 11
 No seminar
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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

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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Friday 25
 No seminar
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