Demography and Social Research

Dr Ann Evans
Family demography in the following areas: cohabitation; relationship formation and dissolution; fertility and contraception; young adults and sexual behaviour; young adult life transitions.

Dr Heather Booth
Longevity and ageing; stochastic modelling and forecasting of demographic rates and populations; mortality in developed countries; age at first birth and age at marriage in Pacific Islands; suicide among Pacific youth.

Dr Edith E Gray
Family demography in the following areas: division of household labour; parenting; men's involvement in family life; maternal employment; young adult life transitions. Other research interests include contraceptive use; use of longitudinal data.

Professor Terence H Hull
Indonesian population; politics of family planning in Indonesia; decentralisation in Indonesia; Gender and Sexuality; Potentially harmful sexual practices; population policy in Asia; demographic data quality and availability in Asia; abortion related deaths in Australia.

Dr Rebecca Kippen
Australian historical demography; fertility trends and patterns; population futures.

Dr Siew-Ean Khoo
International migration to Australia, the adjustment of immigrants and their children and ethnic demography in Australia.

Professor Peter McDonald
Theory relating to low fertility; the implications of low fertility for population futures and upon related policy options; parity progression rates in Australia from both cross-sectional and cohort perspectives to define better methods of fertility projection; explanations of very low fertility in East Asian countries.

Dr John Taylor
Measurement of demographic change among Indigenous peoples and assessment of their economic status at varying scales of analysis from the local to the regional and national. International comparison with North America and New Zealand, particularly in terms of demographic analysis.

Professor Zhongwei Zhao
Simulating changes in kinship structure and household composition; fertility behaviour in China in the past; using genealogies for demographic research; changes in kinship networks in Victorian England, and Chinese migrants in Australia; health transition and mortality changes in China.

Dr Deborah Mitchell
Comparative social policy; the interaction of labour market and social policy; the impact of globalisation on social policy; and longitudinal research on social policy across the life course.

Professor Bryan Rodgers
Childhood adversity and adult mental health; long-term sequelae of parental divorce; family relationships and mental health; relationships of alcohol consumption with anxiety, depression and cognitive function; models of vulnerability and resilience; epidemiology of mental disorders over the life course; and mental health literacy.

Dr Bruce Smyth
Post-separation patterns of parenting; child support; relocation and parenting disputes; allegations of family violence in family law proceedings; financial living standards after separation; spousal support; and binding pre-nuptial agreements.

Dr Jeromey Temple
Economic and spatial demography; ageing and labour supply; implications of population ageing and demographic change at the regional level; construction of national transfer accounts for australia; ageing and consumer behaviour (expenditure, dissaving and debt); child support and family transitions.