Environmental Exchanges - Belinda Smaill
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
Torres Strait Islander Families and Child Rearing Practices – Outcomes and Issues
Seminar
Recording available here Overview Three years on from the advent of the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Act 2020 (Qld) this seminar reflects on the creation, administration and implementation of the Act as a common law statute which…
The Dynamic Population Model: Using Bayesian methods to construct local-level population statistics for England and Wales
Seminar
The UK Office for National Statistics is developing new methods for producing population statistics that make full use of administrative data. The methods build on Bayesian demographic accounts, which combine ideas from formal demography with ideas from Bayesian statistics. The biggest…
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism
Lecture
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism urges that the Constitution should be interpreted so as to allow both individuals and groups to experiment with different ways of living, whether we are speaking of religious practices, family arrangements, political associations, civic associations, child-…
Modelling the age-sex profiles of net international migration
Seminar
In our paper, we present a methodology to infer the age and sex profiles of net migration. This research supports the United Nations Population Division’s estimation and population projection procedures for producing the World Population Prospects (WPP). Age and sex profiles of net migration are…
Social Scripts - Tom Dougherty
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Dougherty Social scripts specify the normal way for people to interact in certain situations. For example, a social script for a restaurant conversation explains why the world over, these conversations take a similar form. I will discuss what social scripts are, how they shape…
Institutional Dynamics and the Evolution of Corporate Political Networks: Evidence from South Korea
Seminar
Why do firms choose nonmarket strategies the way they do? Although the literature demonstrates the impact of firms’ nonmarket strategies, such as informal networks, on firm values, the question of what explains the evolution of such networks over time has curiously escaped sustained analytic…