Working with parents who hate their former partners: Recent insights and strategies
Seminar
‘High-conflict’ divorce cases have been consistently identified as difficult, complex, time consuming, and costly. They place great strain on individuals, practitioners and courts, as well as on the family law and child support systems more generally. In this session presenters will (a) explore ‘…
Using multi-criteria decision analysis to assess expert and stakeholder preference on adolescent illicit drug policy options in Hong Kong
Seminar
Multiple-criteria analysis (MCA) has been applied to many complex decisions to assist in risk assessment and selection of alternative operators or policy options. Using the MCA techniques, key expert preferences for 19 drug interventions in Hong Kong were examined. Significant differences in…
Methods in the madness: research design, logistics and luck in remote Indigenous community context
Seminar
Gambling is an issue that is increasingly reported, both anecdotally and through research, as having significant negative impacts on Indigenous individuals, families and communities in the Northern Territory. Rates of gambling problems are much higher in the Indigenous population compared to the…
Analysing Decision Making: a seminar in two parts
Seminar
While there has been a resurgence of interest in policy implementation studies over the last ten years, there is still a lack of attention to process in governance theory and practice and the appropriateness of different conceptualisations of policy-action relationships. The first part of…
SRC SSC/AMSRS; Seminar Improving inferences from poor quality samples
Workshop
Simple random sampling has traditional been the mainstay of market and social research surveys. Obtaining a simple random sample has become even more elusive in an on-line world where community panels and convenience sampling prevail.Moreover, there continues to be increasing difficulty in…
SRC SSC/AMSRS; Seminar Improving inferences from poor quality samples
Workshop
Simple random sampling has traditional been the mainstay of market and social research surveys. Obtaining a simple random sample has become even more elusive in an on-line world where community panels and convenience sampling prevail.Moreover, there continues to be increasing difficulty in…
The Global Future of Religion & Nonreligion
Seminar
Many people have speculated about the future of religion. Now Pew Research Center has undertaken the first formal demographic projections exploring the future of religion using data on age, fertility, mortality, migration and religious switching for major religious groups around the world. These…