Exploring The Ethics of Welfare Conditionality
Seminar
Welfare conditionality is now a firmly established mainstream policy tool in North America, Australia, and across Europe. Its deployment within the UK social security system has been linked to austerity politics, and the rise of foodbanks and destitution. The use of conditional mechanisms in…
Consent to data linkage: Experimental evidence on sensitivity of linkages, length of linkages and complexity of consent process
Seminar
The next generation of longitudinal studies will likely make extensive use of linked data to augment survey responses. However this is in the context of declining response rates to surveys and in consent to data linkage (Kreuter, Sakshaug & Tourangeau, 2016). To date there have only been a…
Accent and Trust: a Lab Study in Australia
Seminar
I conduct a lab experiment to investigate how accent affects trust. Participants listen to an audio message from their opponent before they make decisions in the trust game. The audio clips are fictitious such that they are exact in text but delivered in different accents. I include the Australian…
Accent and Trust: a Lab Study in Australia
Seminar
I conduct a lab experiment to investigate how accent affects trust. Participants listen to an audio message from their opponent before they make decisions in the trust game. The audio clips are fictitious such that they are exact in text but delivered in different accents. I include the Australian…
Optimal Tax and Welfare Settings in Australia: An Optimal Policy Modelling Methodology
Seminar
The Australian tax and welfare system in Australia in its current form was by and large developed many decades ago and has since only had modest and largely ad hoc changes. This is in spite of the many changes to the Australian population and economy. In this paper we provide a new methodology and…
Using data science approaches to address sticky issues in security and crime science
Activity
Most researchers investigating societal issues have heard of terms such as 'big data', 'data science' and the 'data revolution'. But how easy is it to obtain, prepare and utilise novel data sources relevant to crime policy and how useful are they at solving some of the tricky issues in the field?…
The Dawes Centre for Crime – Future crime agenda
Activity
Traditional crime has been falling for some time in most countries around the world. However, developing technologies and our use of them are creating new opportunities for offending. For example, estimates from the Crime Survey of England and Wales indicate that in the UK at least, online…