Research

Student Research Topics

Name	Title	Course	Year Completed
Rachel Meyer	Battlers, Traditionalists and Careerists: what distinguishes Australians who have 3 or more children from those who have two	BA (Hons), Australian National University	1998
Brigid van Wanrooy	Working 9 to 5, Dolly Parton Lied: A study of undesired working hours	BA (Hons), UNSW	1998
Edith Gray	Shared parenting in Australia? Examining the involvement of men and women in childrearing.	PhD, Australian National University	2001
Marian May	Asking women about having children : interaction in telephone-survey interviews.	PhD, Australian National University	2002
Anna Samson	Choosing their Choice? The impact of the Howard Government policy on the childcare and labour market decisions of partnered women with preschoolers in Australia	B.Economics (Social Science), University of Sydney	2002
Maggie Walter	Working their Way out of Poverty? Sole Motherhood, Labour Market Participation and Welfare Reform in Australia	PhD, University of Tasmania	2003
Jenny Baxter	The employment of partnered mothers in Australia	PhD, Australian National University	2005
Brigid van Wanrooy	Working Time in Australia: Why do we work the hours that we do?	PhD, Australian National University	2006
Belinda Hewitt	The Causes and Consequences of Divorce: A Lifecourse Perspective	PhD, University of Queensland	2007

NLC project data have also been used as a tool for teaching quantitative methods at graduate level.

Other student projects

In October 2002, students in the Graduate Program in Demography, ANU prepared posters for display at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Australian Population Association in Sydney.

Author	Title
Jenny Baxter	Determinants of educational attainment in Australia
Ibrahim Naseem	Factors associated with having children in Australia
Sovanndy Poch	Determinants of female employment in Australia
Azeema Faizunnisa	What makes you a happy worker? Job satisfaction in Australia
Vinh Duc Nguyen	Men’s participation in housework in Australian families
Tim Adair	The determinants of involvement in voluntary community work in Australia
Nepali Sah	Predictors of post-secondary schooling in Australian males and females
Guangyu Zhang	Factors influencing satisfaction with work payment
Ewa Orzechowska	Educational and occupational transitions in Australia
Scott Carpenter	Factors affecting household composition in Australia

In December 2006, students in the Graduate Program in Demography, ANU prepared posters for display at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Australian Population Association in Adelaide.

Author	Title
Eleanor Bettini	Family transitions and job satisfaction
Melissa Cotterill	Delayed parenthood: A survival analysis of age at first birth
Tony Mole	Does relationship formation at older ages influence time to first birth
Anna Reimondos	Timing to first union
Xiaomu Zhang	Factors affecting labour force participation among Australian women

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