PhD student wins W.D. Borrie Prize

Kim Johnstone, a PhD student from the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute, has won the nationally competitive 2009 Postgraduate Borrie Prize for her paper Indigenous fertility in the Northern Territory - What do we know? (and what can we know?).

Two students of ADSRI, Jiaying Zhao and Kirsten Trunk were both highly commended.

The Australian Population Association sponsors the annual Postgraduate W.D. Borrie Prize for the best postgraduate student paper on a population-related topic. The prize is named for Professor W.D. Borrie (1913-2000), Australia's first full-time academic researcher in demography.

For more information on on Demography and Social Research at the ANU see the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute website.