Global Citizenship and World Order? Educational Multilateralism and the History of IR
Lecture/seminar
Many new disciplinary histories of both Political Science and International Relations (IR) demonstrate their implications in empire and race science. At the same time, historical scholarship has recently turned its attention to the origins of liberal internationalism, fleshing out the political…
Financial Incentives and Fertility: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data on Australia’s Baby Bonus
Seminar
Fertility has been declining across most advanced economies, raising concerns about long-term economic growth, labour supply, and fiscal sustainability. Pelin Akyol and Alu Vergili's research provides the first comprehensive analysis of Australia’s Baby Bonus, a large universal cash transfer…
Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s drug consumption seeks to push past the narrow public health focus on risk and harm by centring pleasure as a key dynamic shaping the motivations and…
The Impropriety of Punishing Negligence in a Liberal State
Seminar
On the suppositions that criminal punishment requires blameworthiness and that blameworthiness requires culpability in addition to wrongdoing, the issue raised about punishment for negligently caused harm is whether and how inadvertent but unreasonable risk-taking (i.e., negligence) makes a…
Reading for pleasure: Australian girls, intimate knowledge and print culture, 1970–2010
Lecture/seminar
A condom placed on a banana; a dated video explaining puberty to teenagers who had already experienced it; a teacher’s voice drowned out by awkward laughter: school-based sex education in the recent Australian past often left students confused, bored and uncomfortable. So how did Australian girls…
Explaining 21st Century Fertility Patterns in Australia and Other High-Income Countries
Seminar
Over the 21st century, total fertility rate (TFR) trends across many countries have followed remarkably similar trajectories — rising until around 2008 and declining since at the fastest rate observed since the 1970s. These parallel patterns challenge traditional theories that link fertility change…
Masculinity, migration and care: Men working in the adult social care sector in England
Lecture/seminar
Like many other countries, the adult social care sector in England relies on a predominantly female workforce, with men accounting for 21% of workers as of 2024. As a result, some commentators have suggested that recruiting more men could be one solution to the staffing crisis, which has long…