An overview of the research program, and some notes from media interviews

The blog has been a bit quiet in the past two weeks. I have been busy preparing for the seminar I gave last Thursday with Professor Tony Barnes looking at the Population Studies research program at Charles Darwin University, and some of the things that make the NT population interesting and important as an object of study. Over thirty people attended the seminar, including colleagues from various NT Government departments and some private sector businesses – indicating that population is important to lots of people up here. The Powerpoint slides and seminar notes are already on the CDU eb site – http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/seminars.html and follow the links. Note also that there are two more seminars in the Population Studies theme – one next Friday (4 April) from our PhD students and one on 18 APril about our research into reasons for coming and going given by dentists, accountants, engineers, and nurses.

 As part of the build up to the seminar last week, I gave a couple of radio interviews. I have tried to summarise the flavour of those interviews in the attached document. cdupopulationresearchqa.pdf