Events
The Life Course Centre hosts regular events to bring together its researchers from diverse disciplines, key international experts, policy makers and community stakeholders to tackle the problem of social disadvantage over the life course.
Future Events
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Webinar: Families Under Extreme Stress – Factors associated with meal provision in early care and education (ECE) services
October 14, 2020 - Presented by Professor Karen Thorpe from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE LIFE COURSE CENTRE
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Webinar: Families Under Extreme Stress – “Normal” stresses and additional challenges arising from COVID-19
October 15, 2020 - Presented by Panellists from the University of Melbourne and the Brotherhood of St Laurence hosted by THE LIFE COURSE CENTRE
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Future Public Lectures
Visit here for details of public lectures and events as they become available.
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The Life Course Centre: Looking Back, Looking Forward
September 8, 2020 - Professor Janeen Baxter from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Getting on with the job: The future of work for people with disability
September 8, 2020 - Facilitated by Associate Professor Irma Mooi-Reci from The University of Melbourne, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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Sexism and Attitudes Towards Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in the New Zealand Context
March 12, 2020 - Presented by Yanshu Huang from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Thinking about causality in life course research
February 27, 2020 - Presented by Dr Carmel Hannan from University of Limerick, Ireland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Families in times of Recession: Irish exceptionalism?
February 17, 2020 - Presented by Dr Carmel Hannan from University of Limerick, Ireland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Fun with stats: Making the most of Stata software
Thursday, 30 January 2020 - Presented by Associate Professor Paco Perales, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Detecting drivers of behavior at an early age: Evidence from a longitudinal experiment
November 29, 2019 - Presented by Associate Professor Marco Castillo from Texas A&M University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Intergenerational Paths to Self-Sufficiency Workshop
November 28-29, 2019 - Intergenerational Paths to Self-Sufficiency Workshop to be held in Melbourne, VIC
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Health Economics Workshop
November 14, 2019 - Health Economics Workshop to be held in Sydney, NSW
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Communicating Research to Influence Policy-Makers Workshop
October 30-31, 2019 - Communicating Research to Influence Policy-Makers: Writing Workshop to be held in Brisbane, QLD
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Education as a Pathway out of Poverty – Anti-Poverty Week 2019 event
October 17, 2019 - Presented by Professor Rebekah Levine Coley from Boston College & Dr Matteo Sandi from London School of Economics, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Anti-Poverty Week Presentation
October 16, 2019 - Presented by Edwina Chen & Hugh Harley, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Putting Young Children on a Path to Success: Mechanisms Transmitting Income Inequality
October 15, 2019 - Presented by Professor Rebekah Levine Coley, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Growing future leaders: Life Course Centre Student development week 2019
October 15-17, 2019 - Growing future leaders: Student development week 2019 to be held in Brisbane, QLD
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Anti-Poverty Week Book Launch: Food Stamps and the Working Poor
October 15, 2019 - Presented by Professor David C. Ribar from The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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(Growing) Up in Smoke? The impact of prenatal and postnatal maternal smoking on child development
October 14, 2019 - Presented by Associate Professor Gabriella Conti from University College London, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2019 International Conference
September 25-27, 2019 - Life Course Centre researchers will host a symposium presentation at the UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM, GERMANY
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Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Workshop
August 15-16, 2019 - Sleep and Society: Continuity and chaos across the life course Workshop to be held in Brisbane, QLD
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Does the provision of time resources reduce stress? Causal evidence
August 15, 2019 - Presented by Prof Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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2019 Life Course Centre Data for Policy Workshop
August 7-8, 2019 - Life Course Course Centre Data for Policy Workshop to be held in Canberra, ACT
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Language growth from 4 to 8 and developmental circumstances: Meeting policy demands from the early years sector.
July 10, 2019 - Presented by Professor Stephen Zubrick from The University of Western Australia, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Photo-elicitation interviews with vulnerable populations: Practical and ethical considerations
June 6, 2019 - Presented by Professor Heith Copes from The University of Alabama at Birmingham hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Women and Meth: Finding self-worth in the midst of poverty, abuse, and addiction
June 4, 2019 - Presented by Professor Heith Copes from The University of Alabama at Birmingham hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence & Update from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting
May 31, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Orla Doyle from University College Dublin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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2019 Life Course Centre Research Retreat
May 8-9, 2019 - Life Course Course Centre Research Retreat to be held in the Swan Valley, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Explaining the evolution of ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments.
May 2, 2019 - Presented by Francis Mitrou and Ha Nguyen from Telethon Kids Institute, Western Australia hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Brown Bag Seminar
April 15, 2019 - Presented by Dr Lisa Calderwood, Centre for Longitudinal Studies - UCL Institute of Education, London hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Test Anxiety under 15-year olds – A comparative study between Australia and The Netherlands
April 11, 2019 - Presented by Tim de Vries from Utrecht University, The Netherlands hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Quantitative social science for health and wellbeing research: the COMPASS Research Centre
April 4, 2019 - Presented by Dr Barry Milne and Dr Nichola Shackleton from The University of Auckland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Propensity Score Matching
March 29, 2019 - Presented by Jacob Kirksey from Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Mini-Workshop – Economics of Human Development
March 29, 2019 - Presented by Dr Rémi Piatek & Dr Miriam Gensowski from University of Copenhagen and Thomas Schober from Linz University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Australian Muslims: The Challenge of Islamophobia and Social Distance
March 27, 2019 - Presented by Professor Riaz Hassan, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Instrumental Variables
March 22, 2019 - Presented by Jacob Kirksey from Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Regression Discontinuity Models
March 15, 2019 - Presented by Jacob Kirksey from Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Helping Families Change 2020 Conference
February 5-7, 2020 - Helping Families Change 2020 Conference to be held in Brisbane, QUEENSLAND
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Life Course Centre Mini-Workshop
March 13, 2019 - Presented by Professor Shelly Lundberg from University of California, Santa Barbara and Professor Simon Burgess from University of Bristol, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Choosing Schools and School Choice
March 8, 2019 - Presented by Professor Ian Walker from Lancaster University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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International Convention of Psychological Science 2019
March 7-9, 2019 - Life Course Centre researchers will host a symposium in Paris, FRANCE
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‘Un-neighbourliness’: The neighbourhood context of problems and disputes between neighbours
March 6, 2019 - Presented by Professor Lynda Cheshire from The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Fixed effects models and difference-difference models
February 21, 2019 - Presented by Jacob Kirksey from Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Academic Achievement of Children in Same-Sex-Parented and Different-Sex-Parented Families: A Population-Level Analysis of Linked Administrative Data from the Netherlands
February 20, 2019 - Presented by Dr Jan Kabátek from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Systematic Review Workshop 2: Meta-Analysis
February 11, 2019 - Presented by Professor David B. Wilson, George Mason University, Angela Higginson, Queensland University of Technology, Elizabeth Eggins & Lorraine Mazerolle, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Fun with stats: Making the most of Stata software
Thursday, 31 January 2019 - Presented by Dr Paco Perales, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Exploring the Ethics of Welfare Conditionality
November 8, 2018 - Presented by Dr Beth Watts, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018
October 22-24, 2018 - Life Course Centre researchers will attend the Summit at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, MELBOURNE
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Systematic Review Workshop
October 18, 2018 - Presented by Charlotte Gill, George Mason University, Angela Higginson, Queensland University of Technology, Elizabeth Eggins & Lorraine Mazerolle, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Economics: Anti-Poverty Week Seminar
October 18, 2018 - Presented by Richard Gibbs, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Gender attitudes: do we know what we are measuring?
October 15, 2018 - Presented by Professor Ester Rizzi from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Outlook Conference
October 11-12, 2018 - Life Course Centre will host the Equity and Fairness session at the GRAND HYATT, MELBOURNE
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Education: the Panacea to Poverty?
October 09, 2018 - Presented by Dr Matteo Sandi, London School of Economics and Dr Tony Beatton, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) Conference 2018
October 5-7, 2018 - Life Course Centre researchers will host a symposium at HAKONE, JAPAN
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Labour Econometrics Workshop
August 17-18, 2018 - Presented by Jessica Pan from National University of Singapore & Colin A. Cameron from University of California-Davis, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Citizenship and Immigrant Anti-rumour Strategies: A Critical Outlook from the Barcelona Case
August 9, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Òscar Prieto-Flores from University of Girona, Spain, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins
August 9, 2017 - presented by Dr Nathan Kettlewell from The University of Sydney, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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The Impact of Terrorism on Individual Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
July 26, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Orla Doyle from University College Dublin, hosted by Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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Inequalities in Mother’s Lives and Disparities in Children’s Education in Multiple Countries
July 23, 2018 - Presented by Professor Robert Crosnoe from University of Texas at Austin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Economic Uncertainty and Love: Family Building Behaviors in Young Adulthood
July 23, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Shannon Cavanagh from University of Texas at Austin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) 2018 International Conference
July 9-11, 2018 - Life Course Centre researchers will host two symposia at the UNIVERSITY OF MILAN-BICOCCA, ITALY
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The Tenuous Attachments of Working Class Men
June 13, 2018 - Presented by Professor Kathryn Edin from Princeton University hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Big Data Analytics for Social Computing
June 6, 2018 - hosted in MELBOURNE
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Workshop on Intergenerational Disadvantage
May 23, 2018 - hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Refugee Settlement and Wellbeing over the Life Course
May 21, 2018 - Presented by Tarani Chandola, The University of Manchester - Sin Yi Cheung, University of Cardiff and Hans Dietrich, Institute for Employment Research, Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Perceived returns from early-life investments and maternal investments in children
April 29, 2018 - Presented by Adeline Delavande from the University of Essex, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Showing Up: Chronic Absenteeism Disparities Between Students with and without Disabilities
April 27, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Michael Gottfried at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Long Form Writing for Impact Professional Training Course
April 18, 2018 - Presented by Jo Chandler from The University of Melbourne at Telethon Kids Institute, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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The Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform
April 6, 2018 - Presented by Kai Liu from the University of Cambridge hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Unconditional Basic Income
March 26, 2018 - Presented by Professor Erik Olin Wright from the University of Wisconsin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Breaking the data silos: sharing data for better policy and service delivery
March 27-28, 2018 - Co-hosted Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in CANBERRA
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Daughters and Divorce
March 8, 2018 - Presented by David C. Ribar from the University of Melbourne, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Experiments and Interventions in Schools
February 28, 2018 - hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Fun with Stats: Making the Most of Stata Software
December 5, 2017 - Presented by Dr Francisco Perales from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Modelling within-household associations in household panel studies
November 15, 2017 - Presented by Professor Fiona Steele from the London School of Economics, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
October 30, 2017 - Presented by Adrian Raine from the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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International Life Course Conference 2017
October 24-26, 2017 - International Life Course Conference 2017 to be held in SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES
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High School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM
September 28, 2017 - Presented by Professor A. Abigail Payne from the University of Melbourne, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Surviving the Peer-Review Process
September 25, 2017 - Presented by Dr Francisco Perales and Dr Cameron Parsell from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Risky Business: Correlation and Causation in Longitudinal Studies of Skill Development
September 7, 2017 - Presented by Professor Greg Duncan from the University of California, Irvine hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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The principles of co-design in research and policy development work
September 6, 2017 - Presented by Professor Shelley Mattet from the Brotherhood of St Laurence, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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The long-run effects of minimum wages and other anti-poverty policies on disadvantaged neighbourhoods
August 28, 2017 - Presented by David Neumark from the University of California-Irvine, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Life Course Centre Researchers’ Day
June 8, 2017 - hosted at THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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International workshop on government administrative data for policy-relevant research
May 1-2, 2017 - Co-hosted by Stanford Centre for Poverty and Inequality, Children's Data Network and Life Course Centre at STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA, USA
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Introduction to Causal Inference
April 5-6, 2017 - Presented by Dr Michael Kühhirt from the University of Cologne, Germany, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Evidence-based practice workshop
April 3, 2017 - Presented by Professor Lorraine Mazerolle, Dr Elizabeth Eggins and Dr Sophie Aiyer from The University of Queensland co-hosted by Brotherhood of St Laurence in MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
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Building the skills of parents experiencing adversity
March 30, 2017 - Presented by Professor Cate Taylor, hosted by Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Spatial Mobility, Families and Gender Inequality in the Labour Market Symposium
March 28-29, 2017 - hosted at the UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, GERMANY
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Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility
March 24, 2017 - Presented by Kjell Salvanes from the Norwegian School of Economics, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Collecting and using child and family data to enhance children’s wellbeing
March 23, 2017 - Presented by Professor Cate Taylor from Telethon Kids Institute, hosted by TasTAFE, LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA
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Race and Incarceration – Perspectives from Australia and the United States
March 14, 2017 - hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Defining Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – How does Australia’s most prevalent brain affliction remain invisible to meaningful intervention?
March 7, 2017 - Presented by Dr Janet Hammill, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
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Childhood, Education and Welfare: Research and Policy Insight
February 15, 2017 - hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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Life Course Centre Research Retreat
February 13-14, 2017 - hosted at Werribee, MELBOURNE
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The Life Course Centre hosts regular seminars presented by academic researchers at each of its partner universities throughout the year.
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Life Course Centre researchers and partners regularly come together for collaborative workshops to address the problem of disadvantage.
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The Life Course Centre is represented at many national and international conferences and the Centre also hosts its own bi-annual conference.
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Public lectures are hosted by the Life Course Centre throughout the year on various research topics of public interest.
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