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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Industrial Relations | Australian Government and Politics | Political Science | Social Change | Comparative Government and Politics | Business and Management | Social Policy | Policy and Administration | Citizenship |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Political Systems | Industrial Relations | Civics and Citizenship | Gender and Sexualities | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Social Class and Inequalities | Employment Patterns and Change | Work and Family Responsibilities
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Publications
Contemporary Politics in Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 02-02-2012
Abstract: Contemporary Politics in Australia provides a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the study of Australian politics. Written by a erse range of experts, the book offers a comprehensive overview of current theories, debates and research in Australian political science and looks forward to new developments. It encompasses not only formal and institutionally based politics, but also the informal politics of everyday life, including the politics of Australian culture and media. The book is ided into six key sections that cover: • political theory • politics in everyday Australian life • elections • participation and representation • the Australian state • contemporary political and public policy issues Contemporary Politics in Australia challenges the assumption that the study of Australian politics can be dry, descriptive or uncontroversial. Rather, it encourages an understanding of politics in Australia as contested ground. Featuring a glossary of key terms and a companion website, it is essential reading for students.
Online petitioning and politics: the development of Change.org in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2018
The study of Australian politics in the 21st century: a comment on Melleuish
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
The networked young citizen: social media, political participation and civic engagement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-01-2014
Everyday Making through Facebook Engagement: Young Citizens' Political Interactions in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: The emergence of personalised, interactive forms of social media has led to questions about the use of these platforms for engagement in politics. Existing research focuses on whether political actors successfully engage citizens, and how social media platforms mobilise young people into offline participation. In this article, we present original survey data on how many young people use social media to do politics: share information, express themselves, and take action. Everyday Facebook use is underpinned by young people’s engaged citizenship norms, and it has the potential to mobilise a broader range of young people. We contextualise the survey findings with qualitative analysis of how young people describe their willingness to engage in politics on social media. There is a general reluctance to take political action due to the possibility of conflict and disagreement within their networks however, some acknowledge it is a way to bring the disengaged into political debate.
Replication and Characterization of Association between ABO SNPs and Red Blood Cell Traits by Meta-Analysis in Europeans
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 09-06-2016
Community-Based Activism and Change: The Cases of Sydney and Toronto
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2003
Abstract: How do community–based political activists justify the ongoing effectiveness of their chosen location for political activity? How do they describe the shifts in relationships between community–development activism and the state? This article presents findings from case studies undertaken with two community–development organizations based in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, Canada. The focus of the analysis is 40 in–depth interviews conducted with activists in the late 1990s. The article details how the activists describe the present realities for community–development activism and what they conceptualize as the future for their field of political action. It is argued that by appreciating how activists substantiate the relevance of community–development activism in periods of economic, political, and social change we are able to build a notion of participation that is inclusive of, rather than critical of, everyday activist experiences.
PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Beyond lifestyle politics in a time of crisis?: comparing young peoples’ issue agendas and views on inequality
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2015
Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 29-06-2016
A new era for think tanks in public policy? International trends, Australian realities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2008
Australian young people's participatory practices and internet use
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2007
Gender Matters: A Multilevel Analysis of Gender and Voice at Work
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-03-2021
Abstract: The role of gender in shaping a range of work experiences and outcomes is well documented, yet there remains limited knowledge of the gendered dimensions of voice. In addressing the understudied topic of gender and voice, we propose a multilevel framework for analysing the relationship, which goes beyond thinking of gender only in terms of in idual‐level gender identities. We conceptualize gender at three levels – as embedded in in idual identities, in organizational policies and practices and in labour market segmentations – and show that gender, at each level, is associated with variations in worker voice opportunities and practices. We test our model using data from a mixed‐methods Australian study that consisted of a national survey with young working women and men and a series of targeted focus groups with young working women. We find no in idual‐level differences in women's and men's reported voice, measured as managerial consultation and as perceived influence over workplace matters. However, we do find a diminished voice among both women and men employed within specific gendered work environments, namely in organizations where workers perceive high levels of gender inequality and in women‐dominated industries. Qualitative findings provide additional detail on how women's voice materializes and is constrained within gendered work settings.
Online campaigning organizations and storytelling strategies: GetUp! In Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1002/POI3.23
Mobilizing personal narratives: The rise of digital “story banking” in U.S. grassroots advocacy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2020
Recent research Politicizing community: the private sphere and political participation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS10495
Abstract: To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 in iduals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance ( P × 10 −8 ), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near COBLL1/GRB14 , IGF2BP1 , PLA2G6 , CRTC1 ) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.
The Networked Young Citizen
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-06-2014
Keywords in Australian Politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 13-06-2006
Abstract: Keywords in Australian Politics is much more than a dictionary. It outlines the main meanings of over one hundred words essential to understanding contemporary Australian politics. Political language is often used without explanation in the media, public debate, textbooks and lectures. Here at last is a book that provides Australians with the necessary information to use these terms with confidence in public discussion and debate, from the dinner party to the end-of-semester essay. This book defines each keyword, highlights links between different keywords, outlines the main debates concerning each keyword and indicates how they came to be part of Australian political language. Although the book is arranged alphabetically, systematic cross-referencing allows readers to follow their own trails of enquiry. This book is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand Australian political culture and ideas.
Digital Rights in Asia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-03-2019
Data and digital rights: Recent Australian developments
Publisher: Internet Policy Review, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Date: 31-03-2019
DOI: 10.14763/2019.1.1390
Everyday youth participation? Contrasting views from Australian policymakers and young people
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.1177/110330880901800107
Abstract: Youth participation, as a form of consultation within policymaking processes in Australia, has been largely critiqued for its reliance on formal participation mechanisms that are rarely inclusive or representative of a range of young people’s experiences. This article shows that policymakers who are critical of formal methods of youth participation can identify contemporary effective practice and believe initiatives ought to be youth-led, purposeful, provide feedback and be creative and fun. Thus, there is a new awareness by policymakers of the effectiveness of integrating young people’s everyday perspectives into participation. Similarly, it was found that participation and active involvement in decision making was meaningful for young people when it was youth-led, fun and informal, and based on relevant, everyday issues rather than complex policy processes. So why has youth participation remained static and focused mainly on new formal initiatives? To examine this contrast in views and practices, the article presents findings from four discussion groups convened with senior government and community policymakers and a qualitative examination of both marginalized young people’s understanding of youth participation mechanisms and their capacity to influence policymaking that affected their everyday lives.
GetUp! in Election 2016
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 10-04-2018
Politicians, celebrities and social media: a case of informalisation?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2016
Social Media and Democracy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-06-2012
Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-06-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS15805
Abstract: Reduced cardiac vagal control reflected in low heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with greater risks for cardiac morbidity and mortality. In two-stage meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies for three HRV traits in up to 53,174 in iduals of European ancestry, we detect 17 genome-wide significant SNPs in eight loci. HRV SNPs tag non-synonymous SNPs (in NDUFA11 and KIAA1755 ), expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) (influencing GNG11 , RGS6 and NEO1 ), or are located in genes preferentially expressed in the sinoatrial node ( GNG11 , RGS6 and HCN4) . Genetic risk scores account for 0.9 to 2.6% of the HRV variance. Significant genetic correlation is found for HRV with heart rate (−0.74 r g −0.55) and blood pressure (−0.35 r g −0.20). These findings provide clinically relevant biological insight into heritable variation in vagal heart rhythm regulation, with a key role for genetic variants ( GNG11 , RGS6) that influence G-protein heterotrimer action in GIRK-channel induced pacemaker membrane hyperpolarization.
Plasma urate concentration and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomisation analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Building virtual spaces: Young people, participation and the Internet
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Hybrid social and news media protest events: from #MarchinMarch to #BusttheBudget in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-11-2017
The great equalizer? Patterns of social media use and youth political engagement in three advanced democracies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2014
Introduction: international approaches to online political participation and connective action
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2017
Technology, schools and citizenship education: A fix too far?
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-08-2007
Performing for the young networked citizen? Celebrity politics, social networking and the political engagement of young people
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-11-2015
Abstract: The use of social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, by politicians and entertainers to engage young citizens can be seen as a further ex le of the emergence of celebrity politics. While regarded by some commentators as further evidence of the trivialization of political life, this article adopts the alternative approach of those scholars who foreground the potential for popular culture and media entertainment to be more socially inclusive, democratizing and influential in public policy making. To-date analysis of celebrity politics has tended to be focused upon the media performances of politicians and political celebrities, based upon a single country and lacking empirical evidence. This article explores what young citizens drawn from three late-modern democratic societies (Australia, United Kingdom and the US) think about the use of social media by politicians and political celebrities and whether it influenced their own outlook on politics? Our conclusions are that young citizens are generally cautiously positive about both politicians and celebrities using social media but felt that they should learn to use it appropriately if they are to rebuild trust and credibility.
CONSTRUCTING AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ONLINE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Campaign Entrepreneurs in Online Collective Action: GetUp! in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2015
Effect of Smoking on Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.115.001225
Abstract: Smoking is an important cardiovascular disease risk factor, but the mechanisms linking smoking to blood pressure are poorly understood. Data on 141 317 participants (62 666 never, 40 669 former, 37 982 current smokers) from 23 population-based studies were included in observational and Mendelian randomization meta-analyses of the associations of smoking status and smoking heaviness with systolic and diastolic blood pressure, hypertension, and resting heart rate. For the Mendelian randomization analyses, a genetic variant rs16969968/rs1051730 was used as a proxy for smoking heaviness in current smokers. In observational analyses, current as compared with never smoking was associated with lower systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure and lower hypertension risk, but with higher resting heart rate. In observational analyses among current smokers, 1 cigarette/day higher level of smoking heaviness was associated with higher (0.21 bpm 95% confidence interval 0.19 0.24) resting heart rate and slightly higher diastolic blood pressure (0.05 mm Hg 95% confidence interval 0.02 0.08) and systolic blood pressure (0.08 mm Hg 95% confidence interval 0.03 0.13). However, in Mendelian randomization analyses among current smokers, although each smoking increasing allele of rs16969968/rs1051730 was associated with higher resting heart rate (0.36 bpm/allele 95% confidence interval 0.18 0.54), there was no strong association with diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure, or hypertension. This would suggest a 7 bpm higher heart rate in those who smoke 20 cigarettes/day. This Mendelian randomization meta-analysis supports a causal association of smoking heaviness with higher level of resting heart rate, but not with blood pressure. These findings suggest that part of the cardiovascular risk of smoking may operate through increasing resting heart rate.
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-04-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NG.3552
Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-05-2015
DOI: 10.1093/IJE/DYV074
Protesters, parliamentarians, policymakers: The experiences of Australian green mps
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
The Australian Greens: Party organisation and political processes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2006
Mendelian Randomisation study of the influence of eGFR on coronary heart disease
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-06-2016
DOI: 10.1038/SREP28514
Abstract: Impaired kidney function, as measured by reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), has been associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in observational studies, but it is unclear whether this association is causal or the result of confounding or reverse causation. In this study we applied Mendelian randomisation analysis using 17 genetic variants previously associated with eGFR to investigate the causal role of kidney function on CHD. We used 13,145 participants from the UCL-LSHTM-Edinburgh-Bristol (UCLEB) Consortium and 194,427 participants from the Coronary ARtery DIsease Genome-wide Replication and Meta-analysis plus Coronary Artery Disease (CARDIoGRAMplusC4D) consortium. We observed significant association of an unweighted gene score with CHD risk (odds ratio = 0.983 per additional eGFR-increasing allele, 95% CI = 0.970–0.996, p = 0.008). However, using weights calculated from UCLEB, the gene score was not associated with disease risk (p = 0.11). These conflicting results could be explained by a single SNP, rs653178, which was not associated with eGFR in the UCLEB s le, but has known pleiotropic effects that prevent us from drawing a causal conclusion. The observational association between low eGFR and increased CHD risk was not explained by potential confounders and there was no evidence of reverse causation, therefore leaving the remaining unexplained association as an open question.
The effects of narratives and popularity cues on signing online petitions in two advanced democracies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-10-2021
Engagement and interaction with online news: a case study of housing affordability discussions on Facebook
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-07-2018
Abstract: Concerns about housing affordability in Australian capital cities have captured the public and political imagination. How, then, do ordinary citizens discuss the causes of and solutions to the increasing unaffordability of housing? This article examines evidence that branded Facebook channels provide a space for citizens to engage in everyday engagement and interaction on housing issues. We argue that studying branded, public Facebook pages, despite data access limitations, is an important way of tapping into broad citizen sentiment and understanding media influence on topical issues. We also find that different ways of framing housing affordability within news reporting are associated with different patterns of citizen engagement and interaction on Facebook. In particular, generational frames (critically linking housing affordability to either older people’s entrenched economic advantage or young people’s inability to save) are associated with high levels of user engagement, but the lowest level of discussion about policy solutions within dominant comment threads.
Young women and men: Imagined futures of work and family formation in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-10-2019
Abstract: In the debates about the future of work there is a lack of analysis on how young women and men are approaching their future work and family lives. In this article we use data collected in the Australian Women’s Working Future (AWWF) Project 2017 to analyse what young workers imagine will be important to their future success in work and family. We find that formal workplace supports for care, such as paid parental leave and childcare, and workplace flexibility are identified as very important. Shared domestic labour is also desired. Parents have the strongest expectations for care policy supports. Young men without children are least likely to factor these into future work trajectories, while young women do. However, data on women’s plans for family formation, compared with men’s, suggests that difficulties accessing vital care supports pose a risk to young women’s ability to work, form families and care.
Paul Keating is the Prime Minister, but Who Delivers the Mail? A Study of Political Knowledge Amongst Young People
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1995
Dynamics and stability of an optically levitated mirror
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 27-05-2020
Vitamin D and cognitive function: A Mendelian randomisation study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-10-2017
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-13189-3
Abstract: The causal nature of the association between hypovitaminosis D and poor cognitive function in mid- to later-life is uncertain. Using a Mendelian randomisation(MR) approach, we examined the causal relationship between 25(OH)D and cognitive function. Data came from 172,349 participants from 17 cohorts. DHCR7 (rs12785878), CYP2R1 rs12794714) and their combined synthesis score were chosen to proxy 25(OH)D. Cognitive tests were standardised into global and memory scores. Analyses were stratified by 25(OH)D tertiles, sex and age. Random effects meta-analyses assessed associations between 25(OH)D and cognitive function. Associations of serum 25(OH)D with global and memory-related cognitive function were non-linear (lower cognitive scores for both low and high 25(OH)D, p curvature ≤ 0.006), with much of the curvature attributed to a single study. DHCR7 , CYP2R1 , and the synthesis score were associated with small reductions in 25(OH)D per vitamin D-decreasing allele. However, coefficients for associations with global or memory-related cognitive function were non-significant and in opposing directions for DHCR7 and CYP2R1 , with no overall association observed for the synthesis score . Coefficients for the synthesis score and global and memory cognition were similar when stratified by 25(OH)D tertiles, sex and age. We found no evidence for serum 25(OH)D concentration as a causal factor for cognitive performance in mid- to later life.
New Participatory Dimensions in Civil Society
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-03-2012
Qualitative Methods
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 30-09-2017
Sceptics or supporters? Consumers’ views of work in the gig economy
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-01-2020
DOI: 10.1111/NTWE.12157
'People try to put us down ...': Participatory citizenship of 'Generation X'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2003
The Networked Young Citizen as POPC Citizen
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-07-2017
Young people, social media and connective action: from organisational maintenance to everyday political talk
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2014
Suburban Affairs: Groups and Political Communities Across Sydney
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2010
Campus Politics, Student Societies and Social Media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2015
Abstract: The university c us has often been seen as an important site for the politicization of young people. Recent explanations for this have focused attention upon the role of the student union as a means to enable a ‘critical mass’ of previously isolated in iduals to produce social networks of common interest. What is missing from these accounts, however, and what this article seeks to address, is how these factors actually facilitate the development of political norms and the active engagement of many students. Drawing upon qualitative data from three countries we argue that it is the milieu of the smaller student societies that are crucial for facilitating the habitus of the student citizen. They provide the space for creative development and performance of the political self, affiliations to particular fields and access to cultural and social capital. Moreover, we contend that these processes of politicization are increasingly enacted through social media networks that foreground their importance for developing political habitus in the future.
Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Traversing time and gender: Australian young people's participation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2003
Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 11-03-2016
Abstract: Coronary heart disease is a tale of two forms of plasma cholesterol. In contrast to the well-established effects of “bad” cholesterol (LDL-C), the role of “good” cholesterol (HDL-C) is mysterious. Elevated HDL-C correlates with a lower risk of heart disease, yet drugs that raise HDL-C levels do not reduce risk. Zanoni et al. found that some people with exceptionally high levels of HDL-C carry a rare sequence variant in the gene encoding the major HDL-C receptor, scavenger receptor BI. This variant destroys the receptor's ability to take up HDL-C. Interestingly, people with this variant have a higher risk of heart disease despite having high levels of HDL-C. Science , this issue p. 1166
The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-09-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NG.3667
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