“People, Place and Partnership”: A model for leveraging and governing native title
Seminar
Please click here for zoom recording. Abstract: Traditional Owner groups within Queensland South Native Title Services’ (QSNTS) expansive service region have fought, and continue to fight, an excruciating battle to have their native title rights and interests recognised by the Federal…
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on Australian life expectancy
Webinar/Online
The world-wide excess mortality caused by COVID-19 is more clearly understood under the perspective of years of life expectancy lost. A recent study on high-income countries presented changes in life expectancy for 29 populations between 2019 and 2020, with extreme losses of -1.7 and -2.2 years for…
United Kingdom Association of Milk Banking (UKAMB) Virtual Forum - From Teardrops to Milk Drops
Webinar/Online
Dr Debbie Noble-Carr presented a paper on “Bereaved donation: the Australian Experience” at the United Kingdom Association of Milk Banking (UKAMB) Virtual Forum - From Teardrops to Milk Drops: International and interdisciplinary considerations of bereavement and donation. Almost 100 participants…
Misunderstanding ethnography: Evidence in law, journalism and political ethnography (Sharon Batt, David Forrest, Anastasia Shesterinina, Dvora Yanow, Nick Cheesman)
Seminar
In Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters (2018), law professor and lawyer Steven Lubet mounts a concerted attack on ethnography for relying upon evidence that would not meet the standards that obtain in legal proceedings. What is ethnography, and why should this concern political…
Kiera Lindsey: The Speculative Method
Webinar/Online
Kiera Lindsey: The Speculative Method. Using Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory to 'Re-present' Past Lives What is speculative biography? How might writers and readers work with ‘the speculative method’? In this presentation I speak to my chapters in a new Routledge edited collection…
Seminar: Using longitudinal data to support improved educational outcomes for young people experiencing disadvantage
Seminar
ABSTRACT: The Smith Family is a national children’s charity focussed on supporting disadvantaged children to participate and succeed in education over the long-term. It is currently supporting 58,000 financially disadvantaged children and young people through its long-term educational scholarship…
Investigating factors influencing low fertility in Asia
Webinar/Online
Low fertility rates and other closely related trends such as declining family formation, later marriages, and rising age of first birth have been observed in many advanced Asian societies. In this context, understanding the determinants of marriage and fertility decisions carries with it important…