Australian news coverage of workplace gender diversity: Big data topic modelling and qualitative analyses of five years (2014 to 2019) of high-circulation Australian newspapers
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Working conditions, including gender diversity, play a key role in the health and workplace productivity of all Australians. Print media continues to be an essential part of our public communications ecosystem, and a key source of social media content, that drives messaging about…
Behavioural Policy: Lessons Learned & Next Steps
Seminar
ABSTRACT: The design and implementation of behaviourally-informed public policy (BPP) has grown significantly in the last decade. BPP draws on several key policy design and implementation tools drawn from behavioural science but they are perhaps best known for the use of randomised controlled…
Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Using novel nation-wide social security data combined with machine learning tools, we develop predictive models of income support receipt intensities for any payment enrolee in the Australian social security system between 2014 and 2018. We show that off-the-shelf machine learning…
Moral Framings in the Australian Parliamentary Debate on Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients
Seminar
Abstract Around the world an expanding array of behavioural conditions are being attached to social security payments. This paper offers empirical evidence of the various moral frames used in the welfare conditionality debate, by both its supporters and detractors. We systematically analyse the…
HERE I AM | Democracy and Demography
Panel discussion
Democracy and Demography: How to Win An Election and the future of US with Dr Chris Wallace and Dr Liz Allen About this Event Join us at Kambri for a thought-provoking conversation with two of Australia’s leading academic analysts Chris Wallace & Liz Allen, whose recent publications…
2020 Transnational Research Institute on Corruption Webinar Series: “Police Corruption: How to reduce it” with Professor Leslie Holmes
Webinar/Online
Police corruption can be found in every corner of the world. According to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, more people pay bribes to the police than to any other officers of the state. To compound the problem, and for reasons that will be elaborated in this webinar,…
Oral Presentation Paul Campbell - Tracing time: Using longitudinal data to understand changes in individual characteristics and circumstances, and make inferences about population-level change
Seminar
ABSTRACT Population-level change is driven by individual-level decisions. The advent of a range of longitudinal datasets, such as panel data and linked data, has made it possible to study change at the individual level in much richer detail. In this presentation, I will first provide a broad…