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APMRC Director awarded Queen's birthday honour

Professor Graeme Hugo was awarded an AO in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for "distinguished service to population studies, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organisations".

Professor Hugo AO is considered one of the world's top three in his field and is well known on the international front for his research into demographic trends, especially population mobility and also the impact of ageing on the workforce.

His career spans more than 40 years, after graduating from Findon High School and then the University of Adelaide, gaining a Bachelor of Arts and majoring in Geography and History. He was the University of Adelaide's very first ARC Federation Fellow, appointed back in 2002, and has authored more than 300 books and journals. He is currently a Professor in Geography at the University of Adelaide overseeing a large contingent of students undertaking PhD's in the areas of population and migration, and Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC).

Over the course of his career he has won more than $17 million in research grants and received 11 major awards - the first in 1963 for topping the State in Geography and the most recent earlier this year after winning the J.P. Thomson Medal Award of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland.

ABC News 24 interview with Prof Graeme Hugo AO

This 3 minute interview discusses the creation of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, including the Centre's expertise in international patterns of migration and the challenges posed by an ageing society.

ARIA Data

A new version of ARIA+ and ARIA++ incorporating the 2011 Census, will be available by the end of January, 2013.

Staff News

Dr. Arusyak Sevoyan, a postdoctoral fellow at the APMRC, has been invited by the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) to participate in the Climate Change and its Impacts: Regional Coupled Human-Natural Systems and Evidence-Based Policy Making from June 9 to 23, 2012. Established in 2009, BIARI pursue the goal of making a significant contribution to global research through transnational academic collaboration, at the same time providing young scholars the opportunities for professional development through engaging in a high-level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields and each other. The Institutes, led by a team of distinguished Brown faculty and world-renowned lecturers and speakers, are academically rigorous and participation is highly competitive. Dr. Sevoyan will present the NCCARF funded project on Climate Change Impact on Disadvantages Groups: Issues and Interventions that she is currently working on with Prof. Graeme Hugo, Associate Prof. John Spoehr and Dr. Yan Tan.

International Visitors

Sapienza University of Rome

Alessandra De Rose
Professor of Demography & Social Statistics

Research Interests:

• Family and Fertility
• Union formation and dissolution
• Life course analysis
• Gender issues
• Italian experience of migration

Donatella Strangio
Associate Professor

Research Interests:

• Economic development and the economic underdevelopment;
• Financial history in modern and contemporary times;
• The history of tourism;
• The history of European economic integration.

Presentation from Professor De Rose and Assoc. Professor Strangio can be accessed here.

Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Dr Rima Rudd
Visiting Health Literacy Expert

Public lecture: "Health Literacy: Overcoming barriers to communication in healthcare"

Read more about her on the News and Events page on www.thehealthobservatory.org.au 

International Conferences

The APMRC team have recently had 6 papers accepted for the International Federation of Aging conference which will be held in Prague in May 2012. The papers represent a range of research projects related to ageing that APMRC is currently working on, and two recent PhD completions from within the centre. Presentation topics include: the health of older workers, planning for a healthy old age, a comparison of the health of baby boomers and their parents, older people and their use of new technologies to enable community connectedness, the nature of intergenerational transfers and the social networks of rural older people. For more information about the IFA conference go to http://www.ifa2012.com/

Another member of the APMRC research team, Dr George Tan, will be presenting papers at the International Geographical Congress in Cologne, Germany and the International Conference on Geographies of Education at Loughborough University in the UK. Both papers are related to Dr Tan's work on the transnational migration strategies of Chinese and Indian students in Australia. For more information about the IGC go to: https://igc2012.org/