Understanding Predator-Prey Networks: Twitter, Critters, Bugs, Python, and more
Seminar
Any network or web-like structure consists of "actors" that are linked by some type of activity. Thus, inference for features in a friendship network, protein-protein interaction network, or a predator-prey food web can be made using a common statistical framework as a foundation. In the context of…
The Health of Philippines Emigrants Study (HoPES): Studying the Counterfactual of Migration
Seminar
Immigrants to a new county are often healthier than those born in the host country, a phenomenon known as the immigrant health advantage. Yet, this advantage often erodes with time. For example, immigrants to the United States are less obese than their U.S. born counterparts, but the rates of…
The intergenerational consequences of military service: Intergenerational impacts of the Vietnam War on the mental health and relationships of adult offspring
Seminar
The effects of military deployment on the mental health of veterans have been investigated extensively, but relatively few studies had examined how it affects their children. In this study, we investigate the long-term, intergenerational effects of parental deployment by studying mental health and…
Current Challenges, Future Solutions: The evolving field of survey methodology
Workshop
Surveys are a mainstay of social research methods, but rapidly changing research realities mean these methods must constantly evolve. This event brings together researchers from the survey research community for a short workshop geared towards sharing knowledge and finding solutions to specific…
THE MESSI project - Involving children in social research: managing the risks and benefits
Seminar
There is a general consensus that children’s participation in social research is important: holding different standpoints, conceptualisations and experiences of the world to adults, children’s views can help develop knowledge about the social problems they encounter and assist adults to better…
Model of the Australian Tax and Transfer System: A step towards open source tax-transfer modelling
Seminar
This seminar introduces a new model of Australia’s tax and transfer system: Model of the Australian Tax and Transfer System (MATTS). MATTS is a suite of Stata commands that provide researchers with the capability of modelling individual parts of Australia’s tax and transfer system that will be made…
The Decision-Making Process of Police Officers during Use of Force Encounters
Seminar
Police use of force encounters can be volatile and unpredictable events that often require officers to make difficult decisions about force. This presentation discusses the results of a research project that examined how to better prepare officers for making use of force decisions during…