The University of Sydney node of the Life Course Centre recently held a celebration to mark the funding of the Centre by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
The event, on Friday 13 March 2020, was attended by the University of Sydney’s three Life Course Centre Chief Investigators – Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark and Professor Agnieszka Tymula from the School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Professor Nick Glozier from the Brian and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health.
A welcome by Professor Annamarie Jagose, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, was followed by an overview of the future focus of Life Course Centre research at the University of Sydney. The node will spearhead pioneering work on the cognitive science of disadvantage – a major innovation in the Centre’s research program. This research will bring together economists and health experts to investigate the two-way relationship between entrenched socioeconomic exclusion and the cognition, decision-making and choices needed for an increasingly complex world.
The Life Course Centre, established in 2014, is a collaboration between the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney, the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne.
In October, it was announced that the Centre had successfully secured a further seven years of ARC funding to deepen and broaden its understanding of social and economic disadvantage, and develop innovative new solutions to address it.
