Seminars - Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)

Seminars on contemporary issues in family research

The Institute is continuing its series of seminars presenting research on national and international issues related to the family. The seminars, designed to promote a forum for discussion and debate, are free and open to the public.

Seminars are held at 11.30 am on the third Thursday of each month. They run from one to one and a half hours.

The Institute is now located on Level 20, 485 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, between William and King Streets, and opposite the Flagstaff Gardens.

People wishing to attend a particular seminar should contact the Australian Institute of Family Studies (phone 03 9214 7888 or email (aifs-seminars@aifs.gov.au).

Abstracts and full text of seminars and information relating to them are provided when available. New in 2008: selected presentations will be available from our Seminar Series as audio recordings, to listen to or download.

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Next Seminar

Thursday 11 September 2008 - 11.30am-12.30pm
National Child Protection Week - Children See Children Do
Professor Dorothy Scott
Foundation Chair in Child Protection and the
Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection at the University of South Australia

2008 Seminar Program

Wednesday 11 June 2008 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Work and conflict at home: some aspects of how work affects employees’ personal relationships and partners
Professor David Peetz
Professor, Department of Employment Relations, Griffith University
Abstract and presentation

Thursday 17 April 2008 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Cooperation and coordination: An evaluation of the Family Court of Australia’s Magellan case-management model
Dr Daryl Higgins
General Manager (Research), Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract and presentation (slides and audio)

Thursday 13 March 2008 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Subjective wellbeing and families: Issues of measurement and data interpretation
Professor Robert A. Cummins
Professor of Psychology, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Happiness Studies, Deakin University
Abstract and presentation (slides and audio)

Thursday 14 February 2008 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Engagement, analysis and reflectiveness: Developing a Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerable Children and Their Families
Dr Helen Buckley
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Abstract and presentation (slides and audio)

2007 Seminar Program

Thursday 15 November 2007 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Children's voices in research: Some reflections on the ethics and outcomes of participatory research with children
Gillian Calvert and Trish Malins
NSW Commissioner and Research Manager, NSW Commission for Children and Young People
Abstract and presentation

Thursday 25 October 2007 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Does it take a village? Neighbourhood influences on young children's development
Dr Ben Edwards
Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract and presentation

27 September 2007 - 11.30am-12.30pm
Contemporary motherhood: The impact of children on adult time
Dr Lyn Craig
Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract and presentation

16 August 2007
Long work weeks in Australia
Prof. Mark Wooden
Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
Abstract and presentation

26 July 2007
(Il)legally wounded: Intrafamilial sexual abuse and the legal response
Dr S. Caroline Taylor
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat
Abstract

Friday 6 July 2007
Tax-welfare churning: The government giveth, and the government taketh away
Prof. Peter Saunders
Centre for Independent Studies.
Abstract

Monday 27 June 2007
Parental substance use and child protection: developing national guidelines and strategies
co-hosted by Odyssey House Victoria and the Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract and presentations

Monday 18 June 2007
Allegations of family violence and child abuse in family law children's proceedings: A pre-reform exploratory study
Lawrie Moloney, Ruth Weston and Bruce Smyth
Lawrie Moloney is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University and a researcher with the Australian Institute of Family Studies; Bruce Smyth, at the time of writing the report, was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies and is now an Associate Professor at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University in Canberra; Ruth Weston is a General Manager of Research and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Abstract

12 April 2007
It's About Time: Key findings from the women, men, work and family project
Hon. John von Doussa QC
President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Abstract and presentation

22 March 2007
The effects of early environments on human development: Lessons from the integrated science of early child development.
Prof. Deborah Phillips
Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
Abstract and presentation

1 March 2007
Responses to child abuse and adult sexual assault in the Anglican Church in Australia.
Dr Zoë Morrison
Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault
Abstract