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Monash University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Demography | Fertility | Family and Household Studies | Social and Cultural Geography | Migration | Human Geography | Social Change | Race and Ethnic Relations | Environmental Sociology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Consumption Patterns, Population Issues and the Environment | Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classified | Waste Management Services
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Publications
Leisure time in midlife: what are the odds?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
The Determinants of Low Fertility in India
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 04-07-2014
DOI: 10.1007/S13524-014-0314-9
Abstract: Using a conceptual framework focusing on factors that enhance or reduce fertility relative to desired family size (see Bongaarts 2001), we study fertility variation across time (1992–2006) and space (states) in India. Our empirical analyses use data from three waves of the Indian National Family Health Surveys. We find that this framework can account for a substantial portion of the variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) over time and across states. Our estimates focus attention on the critical components of contemporary Indian fertility, especially desired family size, unwanted fertility, son preference, and fertility postponement.
Shift in the use of migrant community languages in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-04-2015
Ethnic Neighbourhoods in Auckland, New Zealand
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-03-2014
'It feels more important than other classes I have done': An 'authentic' undergraduate research experience in sociology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
The rural bite in population pyramids: what are the implications for responsiveness of health systems in middle income countries?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2014
Contextualizing Categories: Towards A Critical Reflexive Demography
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 18-03-2004
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.003.0001
Abstract: Problematizes the relationship between demographers, the content of their science and the contexts in which this knowledge is consumed. Demography as a social science has been historically shaped by the needs of its community of users. The hunger for population knowledge has been a hunger for measurement. Demography is a science that has provided policy with both its ends and its priorities, with its targets and tools. Such pragmatism has not been without cost. Dwelling on measurement and quantification has left less space for the contemplation of what it is that demographers measure. The authors point to existing trends in the social sciences, which take issue with the vocabulary of demographic measurement and challenge the facility with which concepts and categories are defined and used. Provides a rationale for the volume in terms of the needs of demography as a changing social science rather than the demands that persist for demographic knowledge. Considers the interdisciplinarity and the dialogue that is a current feature of critical demography and carefully reviews the contributions of history and anthropology. Both history and anthropology provide demography with the potential for critical reflection and innovation. The philosophical and epistemological heritage, tools, methods, and audiences of both disciplines have critiqued, enriched, and challenged population studies in ways that are considered and documented in this introduction. Reviews the state of the art suggested by this nexus of disciplines, methods, and methodologies to place the chapters included in the whole volume within a theoretical and innovative framework.
Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-09-2009
Family formation in 21st century Australia
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2015
Representing harmony and diversity: Media representations of multiculturalism and ethnicity in Singapore
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-07-2015
Editors' Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 18-03-2004
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.003.0004
Abstract: The chapters in this section are introduced. They demonstrate the manifold ways in which the categories used for the scientific study of population problems have each been produced through historical processes of a strongly political character. The chapters document a number of ways in which intrinsically ambiguous linguistic forms are fixed and objectified to render them amenable to demographic analysis, often through the mediation of state apparatuses. They show that this typically entails significant costs, both in terms of the scientific analyses possible, and in terms of the rights of real people. As Ian Hacking has put it, representing is intervening categories impose on contexts.
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens: National, sub-regional and socio-economic religious diversities in Melbourne
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211011256
Abstract: Melbourne’s religious ersity is increasing. This article reveals distinctive new configurations of ethno-religious ersity arising from immigration and residential mobility at a fine spatial level in different parts of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities – Melbourne. Using the lens of super- ersity, we see beyond multicultural groups to intersections of ersities, and identify new types of ethno-religious compound in neighbourhoods that were once defined by religious patterns of solidarity. We can no longer use religious labels to describe these evolving groups because they are not defined by any dominant religion instead, we describe them in terms reflecting their other increasingly salient characteristics. At the local level in Melbourne, it is now necessary to refer to the existence not only of religious ersity but of a ‘ ersity of ersities’ in patterns of religious identification.
Retaining skilled migrants in regional Australia: The role of social connectedness
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-05-2008
Optometric supply and demand in Australia: 2011-2036
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2015
DOI: 10.1111/CXO.12289
Abstract: The effective size of the optometric workforce is dependent on graduate numbers, retention rates and immigration and is influenced by age, gender and working hours of optometrists. This paper presents modelling results of the relationship between the projected Australian optometric workforce and projected demand for optometric services for the period 2011 to 2036. Nine hypothetical optometric supply-side and demand-side scenarios are presented. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on age and gender of people listing optometry as their major qualification in the 2011 census were projected over a 25-year period, accounting for factors such as concordance with Health Workforce Australia figures for registered optometrists in Australia in 2011, ageing, attrition, hours worked, new graduates and immigration. Data were compared to the numbers of optometrists calculated as necessary to meet the demand for services of the Australian population to 2036 using nine different scenarios. It was estimated that there would be a surplus of over 1,200 equivalent full-time optometrists (EFTO) in 2036 for the highest service demand scenario of 13.8 million Medicare services, where 21 hours of a 38-hour week per EFTO were allowed for the provision of optometric services under Medicare. Substantial surpluses were predicted in all states and territories except Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory where predicted supply was within six EFTO of predicted demand. Projections using current weightings for mortality, attrition, proportion of optometrists in active practice, working hours, immigration, new graduates and 21 hours per EFTO per week available for Medicare services indicate that in 2036, there will be excess optometrists in relation to projected demand for services, if service utilisation is maintained at current levels or increased by 10 or 20 per cent. Substantially greater excesses result if each EFTO has 28 or 35 hours per week available for Medicare services.
Maintaining solidarity across generatons in New Zealand: support from mid-life adult to ageing parent
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Mid-life parental support for adult children in New Zealand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2003
DOI: 10.1177/00048690030393004
Abstract: Research often focuses on exchanges of help between mature adult children and ageing parents, but not between young adults and parents. As transitions to adulthood become more complex, and mid-life is increasingly associated with competing roles, this article examines factors influencing the likelihood that a mid-life parent continues to support an adult child who has left home. Empirical analysis uses data from New Zealand's 1997 `Transactions in the Mid-life Family' survey. Parents continue to support their child, but the factors influencing the flow of help vary by type of help. A child's, but not a parent's age, and the gender of both, have a significant influence on the provision of help, and although infrequent contact and long distances make exchanges more difficult, they do not completely inhibit them.
EXPLAINING the FERTILITY PUZZLE in Sri Lanka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-01-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932015000012
Abstract: Fertility transition in Sri Lanka began in the mid-1960s and the declining trend continued over the decades. The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 2000 showed the total fertility rate (TFR) reaching 1.9 births per woman, a level below replacement fertility. The next DHS of 2006/7 showed a TFR of 2.3. Some have interpreted this pattern as indicating a reversal of the fertility transition. This paper casts doubts on the below-replacement fertility revealed in the 2000 survey.
Family connectedness, school attachment, peer influence and health-compromising behaviours among young Vietnamese males
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-08-2015
Old age support: Expectations and experiences in a South Indian village
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1993
Fertility differentials
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 23-08-2015
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Housing and Transport Stress in the “Affordable” Outer Ring: A Case Study of Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-03-2021
A Review of Age Structural Transition and Demographic Dividend in South Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-09-2012
Australians’ desire for children
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 23-08-2015
Cohorts and community: a case study of community engagement in the establishment of a health and demographic surveillance site in Malaysia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-05-2014
DOI: 10.3402/GHA.V7.23176
Categories and Contexts
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 18-03-2004
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.001.0001
Abstract: Throughout its history as a social science discipline, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying population problems. An important outcome of this is that demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are orced from their embeddedness in dynamic relationships and in varied local contexts and processes. The collection of essays in this volume questions these fixed categories in two ways: firstly, by examining the historical and political circumstances in which such categories have their provenance, and secondly, in reassessing their uncritical applications over space and time in a erse range of empirical case studies. Reflexive questioning is achieved by encouraging a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue involving anthropologists, demographers, historians, and sociologists. This volume seeks to examine the political complexities that lie at the heart of population studies, through a focus on category formation, category use, and category critique. It is shown that this takes the form of a dialectic between the needs for clarity of scientific and administrative analysis and the recalcitrant ersity of the social contexts and human processes that generate population change. The critical reflections on the established categories in each of the essays included here are enriched by meticulous ethnographic fieldwork and historical, archival research, drawn from all the continents. The essays collected here, therefore, exemplify a new methodology for research in population studies, which does not simply accept and use the established categories of population science, but seeks critically and reflexively to explore, test, and re‐evaluate their meanings in erse contexts. The essays show that for demography to realise its full potential, there is an urgent need to re‐examine and contextualise the social categories used today in population research.
Utilization of maternal health care services in Southern India
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2002
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00313-6
Abstract: This paper examines the patterns and determinants of maternal health care utilization across different social settings in South India: in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) carried out during 1992-93 across most states in India are used. Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is highest in Kerala followed by Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Utilization of maternal health care services is not only associated with a range of reproductive, socio-economic, cultural and program factors but also with state and type of health service. The interstate differences in utilization could be partly due to variations in the implementation of maternal health care program as well as differences in availability and accessibility between the states. In the case of antenatal care, there was no significant rural-urban gap, thanks to the role played by the multipurpose health workers posted in the rural areas to provide maternal health care services. The findings of this study provide insights for planning and implementing appropriate maternal health service delivery programs in order to improve the health and well-being of both mother and child.
The Social Context of Family Planning In a South Indian Village
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 09-1995
DOI: 10.2307/2133182
Nutritional Status of Mothers and Low Birth Weight in India
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-02-2009
DOI: 10.1007/S10995-009-0451-8
Abstract: In this paper we examine the role of mothers' nutritional status and socio-biological aspects in determining the birth weight of their most recent child. We used data from the second Indian National Family Health Survey conducted in 1998-1999. Analysis is based on children born within 12 months prior to the survey date (N = 10,042). We used a subjective measure of the size of infant at birth as an indicator for birth weight and employed logistic regression to estimate the effect of BMI and other determinants on birth weight of children in India as a whole and for 17 states separately. Results show that mothers' nutritional status is the most important determinant of newborn children's birth weight. Safe drinking water, use of antenatal care and iron deficient anaemia were also significant contributors to low birth weight. Mothers' BMI impact is more pervasive across India than the impact of other factors on birth weight.
Editors' Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 18-03-2004
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.003.0012
Abstract: The chapters in this section provide a set of well‐documented ex les that the socio‐demographic options and strategies that families and in iduals pursue are powerfully influenced by the dynamic and gendered social and natural worlds or ‘imagined communities’ to which they owe allegiance. These studies show how demographic analysis can benefit from paying much greater attention to contexts and that this will require much more investigative, historical, and anthropological work and a much less rapid move to quantification and comparisons that deploy ‘scientific’ categories, taken off the peg. Time and space need to be problematised not merely controlled.
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