ISSR Seminars
The Institute for Social Science Research hosts the Seminar Series, which is a forum for Institute researchers and collaborators to discuss research in the social sciences. All are welcome.
Seminars are usually held on Thursdays between 12noon and 1:00pm. Select the seminar title for the location and full description.
For enquiries email Silke Meyer, or phone (07) 3345 6071.
2012 Seminar Series Program
Date | Speaker | Title |
27 April | Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick | Homelessness as Multiple Exclusion: implications for prevention and service delivery |
3 May | Elise Sargeant | |
31 May | Dr Rebecca Wickes | |
7 June | Professor Brian Head | What is the value of social research? |
5 July | Dr Belinda Hewitt | Employer paid maternity leave and women’s return to work in Australia |
19 July | Professor Tim Liao | (Research Methodology and Social Statistics Program visiting scholar) |
| 20 July | Professor Kathryn Edin | (School of Social Science visiting scholar - research focus: urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support, and nonmarital childbearing) |
16 August | Dr Rod McCrea and Dr Kelly Fielding | The politics of climate change: voting patterns and politicians attitudes |
20 September | Professor Andrew Jones | Developing research evidence for Australian homelessness policy: issues and challenges |
18 October | Daphne Nash and Dr Kelly Greenop | Mt Isa case studies of Indigenous household crowding and Indigenous homelessness |
15 November | Professor Bill Martin | Reinventing Retirement: late career pathways and retirement of Canadian managers |
See last year's seminar program here, 2011 Seminar Program
