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Jul
2025

Correcting for Biases in Location Data from Mobile Phones to Estimate Mobility Flows

Seminar

Access to human mobility data is key for a wider variety of social challenges, including urban planning, sustainability, public health and economic development. Location trace data collected through digital technology, such as mobile applications, have become widely available to study human…

26
Jun
2025

Reanimating Ayer's Significance Criterion

Seminar

The unmitigated failure of A. J. Ayer’s significance criterion in Language, Truth, and Logic reveals the fundamental folly of any attempt to formulate such a criterion. This is the familiar, critical appraisal of the historically contentious search for a precise litmus test that…

26
Jun
2025

‘Reading biographies to overcome loneliness’: Reflections of an accidental biographer

Seminar

Frank Moorhouse (1938–2022) is best known as a writer of literary fiction. All of his fiction is connected, with his many books sharing characters and experiences, including across generations, and covering much of the 20th century: one of the most sustained feats of the imagination in Australia’s…

24
Jun
2025

Why aren’t young South Koreans having babies?

Seminar

Despite the Korean government expending trillions of Korean won to introduce pronatalist policy initiatives since 2005, South Korea’s total fertility rate (TFR) remains the lowest in the world. Fertility scholars have long attributed factors such as precarious economic conditions, the surge of…

19
Jun
2025

Kantsequentialism and Agent-Centered Restrictions

Seminar

On a given moral view, an agent-centred restriction (hereafter, simply ‘restriction’) prohibits agents from performing acts of a certain type, even if doing so would prevent two or more others from each performing a morally comparable instance of that act-type. In this chapter of the…

15
Jun
2025

Analysing Time to Events

Continuing education

This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…

13
Jun
2025

Bungee jumping on election night - A conversation with Antony Green

Lecture

Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst…