Seminars and Webinars

• Life Course Centre Seminar Series: What matters for each Australian child’s lifetime learning? Early education and care as an intervention in early life

  Presented by Prof Karen Thorpe, The University of Queensland and hosted by the Life Course Centre

• Life Course Centre Webinar: ‘Never Let a Crisis go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19’

  Presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

• Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture – From Sociology to Social Science: Moving Beyond Boundaries to Address Social Disadvantage Over the Life Course

  November 16, 2021 - Presented by Professor Janeen Baxter and hosted by La Trobe University, Victoria

• Webinar: Shifting the dial on child and family poverty: what will it take?

  October 19, 2021 - hosted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence

• Online discussion Water rights for First Nations people: Establishing a Cultural Flows model on Tati Tati Country

  September 20, 2021 - Presented by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

• Life Course Centre Seminar Series: Evaluation of the Early Years Initiative: What changes for whom and in what circumstances, and to what extent can changes be attributed to the EYI?

  September 16, 2021 - Presented by Dr Rosemary Cahill, Telethon Kids Institute and hosted by the Life Course Centre

• Life Course Centre Seminar Series: Gender Inequality under COVID: Evidence from the US and Australia

  August 19, 2021 - Presented by Associate Professor Leah Ruppanner and the University of Melbourne Institute

• National Growth Areas Alliance Symposium – Research and Practice from Australia’s Growth Areas

  July 21 & 28 and August 4, 2021 - National Growth Areas Alliance Symposium - Research and Practice from Australia's Growth Areas

• More than a word: How can economics contribute to Indigenous reconciliation?

  July 27, 2021 - More than a word: How can economics contribute to Indigenous reconciliation?

• The ASPA launch of the Australian Journal of Social Issues special issue on Big Data and Social Policy in Australia

  July 21, 2021 - The ASPA launch of the Australian Journal of Social Issues special issue on Big Data and Social Policy in Australia

• Thriving Futures for Kids and Families: The Role of Evidence-based Parenting and Family Intervention

  July 13, 2021 - Thriving Futures for Kids and Families: The Role of Evidence-based Parenting and Family Intervention

• Webinar: Academic Achievement of Children in Same and Different-Sex-Parented Families

  June 29, 2021 - Presented by Dr Jan Kabatek and the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research

• Seminar: Immigrants’ Diverse Employment Trajectories: The Role of Immigration Policy and Gender in the United States and Australia

  April 22, 2021 - Presented by Dr Rennie Lee from The University of Queensland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Webinar: Does job flexibility impact gender gaps in employment and wages?

  March 23, 2021 - Presented by Dr Jordy Meekes and the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research

• Webinar: Resilience in Research – Women in Research

  December 2, 2020 - Featuring Professor Janeen Baxter from The University of Queensland, hosted by The WOMEN in RESEARCH webinar series

• 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

• 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

• Webinar: 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Anti-Poverty Week Presentation

  October 16, 2019 - Presented by Edwina Chen & Hugh Harley, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• 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

• 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

• (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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Australian Muslims: The Challenge of Islamophobia and Social Distance

  March 27, 2019 - Presented by Professor Riaz Hassan, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Choosing Schools and School Choice

  March 8, 2019 - Presented by Professor Ian Walker from Lancaster University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• ‘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

• 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

• Exploring the Ethics of Welfare Conditionality

  November 8, 2018 - Presented by Dr Beth Watts, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Economics: Anti-Poverty Week Seminar

  October 18, 2018 - Presented by Richard Gibbs, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Tenuous Attachments of Working Class Men

  June 13, 2018 - Presented by Professor Kathryn Edin from Princeton University hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Unconditional Basic Income

  March 26, 2018 - Presented by Professor Erik Olin Wright from the University of Wisconsin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Building the skills of parents experiencing adversity

  March 30, 2017 - Presented by Professor Cate Taylor, hosted by Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• 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

• 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