Setting the course for the next decade.

The Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure has been released. 👇

Congratulations to Sam Mostyn AO on her appointment as Australia's next Governor General. An inspirational and dedicated advocate for gender equality. 👏

Applications are now open for two early career researchers to join Life Course Centre Director Janeen Baxter ARC Laureate Fellowship – working with a collaborative team on an exciting gender inequality project. Apply today! seek.com.au/job/74185779 #WorkAtUQ
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‘Hanging by a Thread: Our Search for Home’ a youth photovoice project by Anglicare Southern Queensland + Life Course Centre that explores young people’s experiences of home & homelessness 🏠

Find out more about this innovative project here 👇

lifecoursecentre.org.au/news/young-peo…

Highlights of 2023 Power to Persuade blog includes posts on issues affecting women, children & families from Ana Gamarra + Alice Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍🌈 👇

Timely addition to our Working Paper Series on cost of homelessness in Qld 🏠💵

Cameron Parsell Dr Ella Kuskoff Nikita Sharma update 2016 study on annual cost offset of moving homeless person to permanent supportive housing

2016: $13,100
2023: $17,462

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lifecoursecentre.org.au/working-papers…

#UQ recipients of NHMRC Investigator Grants include Life Course Centre Chief Investigator Abdullah Mamun UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Health at UQ for his project ‘A life course approach to early detection and prevention of noncommunicable diseases in priority populations’

Congratulations to the HaBS recipients of the NHMRC's Investigator Grants scheme 🎉

➡️Dr Nagham J Ailabouni- UQ Pharmacy
➡️Dr David Klyne & Dr Kirstine Shrubsole- #UQSHRS
➡️Dr Carmen Lim- NCYSUR, UQ
➡️A/Prof Abdullah Mamun- UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
➡️Dr Nicole Marsh- #UQNMSW

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Congratulations to Centre Director Prof Prof Sharon Goldfeld for her NHMRC Investigator Grant and the opportunity it provides for redressing preventable inequities that undermine children's health, development and wellbeing.
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

Life Course Centre is proud to sponsor and be research partner of Anti-Poverty Week Read all about the impact of this year's activities👇

My article 'How COVID changed the world of data' appears in the latest issue of the journal 'Australian Population Studies'. Read it: australianpopulationstudies.org/index.php/aps/…

📢 New Life Course Centre Working Paper 📢

Ferdi Botha Jan Kabátek 🇺🇦 - kabatek.bsky.social Roger Wilkins Melbourne Institute + Jordy Meekes Leiden University examine effects of changes in commuting time + working from home (WFH) on the mental health of Australian men & women 👇

lifecoursecentre.org.au/working-papers…

The latest report from the Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows that 75% of people support lifting incomes for those with the last, while fewer than 25% could live on the existing rate of JobSeeker.
bit.ly/communityattit…
#povertyinAustralia #AusPol #Raisetherateforgood

📈 62% think government policies have contributed to poverty
📉 75% think it can be solved with the right systems & policies

Learn other important findings on community attitudes towards poverty & inequality in our ACOSS partnership report ⬇️ UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-af…

#AASLE2023 was a blast!
Excellent sessions, fun keynotes, bubble tea during coffee breaks, the motivational (ehm) coffee mug, and the glorious city of Taipei.

I presented our new WP showing that work-from-home arrangements can lead to large improvements of women's mental health

Terrific to see my paperback now available. Brisbane launch in early 2024

Great to see lots of new papers in the Life Course Centre Working Paper Series to end the year 💫

This paper by newly conferred PhD student Nikita Sharma and Nathan Middlebrook, St Vincent de Paul Society Qld, examines emergency relief service delivery 👇
lifecoursecentre.org.au/working-papers…

Research Fellow position in Behavioural & Experimental Economics to work on research projects with Life Course Centre Chief Investigator Prof Agnieszka Tymula Agnieszka Tymula Uni of Sydney Economics 👇

The ARC was pleased to host a HASS Centres of Excellence Workshop with @AcadSocSoci, Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, to assist researchers in developing a successful Centre of Excellence proposal.

The workshop featured presentations from current Centre Directors and ARC executives.