Stories from LSAC - The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
| Growing up in a longitudinal study – Engaging young people as they become adults. | |
| Jodie Taylor, Lorraine Attard |
| LSAC goes online – Asking young people to complete an online survey prior to the home visit. | |
| Michael Bassett, Maureen Canning, Jennifer Renda, Bernadette Kok, Elsie Foeken |
| Data linkage in LSAC – Great benefits but also some challenging issues. | |
| Tenniel Guiver, Dinusha Bandara |
| Refusal follow up in Wave 7 of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. | |
| Michael Rodriguez, Lorraine Attard |
| Events History Calendars: Benefits and Challenges | |
| Elsie Foeken, Jennifer Renda, Karena Jessup, Bernadette Kok, Michael Bassett, Maureen Canning |
Trends in Australian Social Attitudes
| The politics of attitudes to immigration and refugees: a new look at recent trends in Australian public opinion data | |
| Shaun Wilson |
| Climate scepticism in Australia | |
| Bruce Tranter |
| Marriage and Happiness: changing Australian attitudes to marriage | |
| Ann Evans, Edith Gray |
2018 World Values Survey: methods and results
| Experiments in the World Values Survey | |
| Benjamin Phillips |
| World Values Survey 2018: findings from Australia | |
| Toni Makkai, Jill Sheppard |
| Australian Values Study Methodology | |
| Anna Lethborg |
Medical statistics and analysis techniques
| A Shiny new app for policy: Using simulation to test which factors most improve child wellbeing | |
| Barry Milne |
| Association between socioeconomic and geographical factors in severely injured trauma patients using trauma registry data. | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Katharine Elizabeth Heathcote, Ben Gardiner, Holly Barbagallo, Jing Sun, Martin Wullschleger |
| Under-five mortality and the continuum of care for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: A Machine Learning analysis. | |
| Adeyinka Emmanuel Adegbosin, Jing Sun |
Questionnaire and item reliability, validity and ordering
| Is the SDQ a reliable and valid measure of behavioural difficulties in 2 year olds? | |
| Stephanie D'Souza |
| Explaining Differential Item Functioning focusing on the crucial role of external information – an example from the measurement of adolescent mental health | |
| Curt Hagquist, David Andrich |
| Item Positions Effects on Item Difficulty and Item Discrimination: A Case Study with Parallel Test Forms | |
| Xiaoxun Sun |
| Impacts on fit and reliability of the ordering of response categories in polytomous items | |
| Curt Hagquist, David Andrich |
Methods for policy and planning
| Measuring the Relationship of Public Opinion to Mass Media and Policy Agendas for Major Public Issues and Events | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Thomas B Christie |
| Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel: what does court data tell us about the parties to civil cases? | |
| Catriona Mirrlees-Black |
| Impact of the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) on International Postgraduate Students of the University of Newcastle | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Md Adnan Al Moshi, Lena Rodriguez |
| Emerged discourses on the articulation of the relationship between education and development in global policies | |
| Asma Jahan Mukta, Tom Griffiths, Heather Sharp |
Innovations in Data Analysis
| School-to-work transitions of youth in Australia: a sequence analysis approach using the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) | |
| Rasika Ranasinghe |
| A General Meta-Analytic Model for Independent and Dependent Effect Sizes | |
| Mike W.-L. Cheung |
| The implications of ethnicity outputting methods for understanding outcomes and developing policy in New Zealand | |
| Nichola Louise Shackleton, Natalia Boven, Daniel Exeter |
Data visualisation and simulation
| Microsimulation: An evolution at COMPASS Research Centre | |
| Martin von Randow |
| Using data to map catchments and identify gaps | |
| Sarah Randell |
Big Data: Analyses, approaches, and ethics
| Big Data, Transparency, and Explainability | |
| Tim Dare |
| Decomposing ethnic differences in body mass index and obesity rates among New Zealand pre-schoolers | |
| Nichola Louise Shackleton |
| Creating a longitudinal child cohort to assess the impact of income poverty on child health. | |
| Nichola Louise Shackleton |
| Adventures in data linkage and the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) | |
| Ronnie Semo |
| Using big data to investigate public service use inequality in the New Zealand population | |
| Stephanie D'Souza |
Research Methodology in Sociology of Health and Medicine
| How Universal are Universal Pre-School Health Checks? Evidence from New Zealand’s B4 School Check | |
| Nichola Louise Shackleton, Sheree Gibb, Barry Milne, Rick Audas |
| Healthy eating education for midwives to investigate and explore their knowledge and confidence to support pregnant women to eat healthily: A mixed methods study | |
| Shwikar Mahmoud Etman Othman, Mary Steen, Julie Fleet, Rasika Jayasekara |
| Blending individual and social emotions via analytical plurality | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Michael Hodgins, Ann Dadich, Jayne Bye |
The state of play in online research in Australia. Problems, pitfalls and opportunities
| The new phenomena of diminishing survey response: So, is the latest Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) cohort representative of today’s young people? | |
| Somayeh Parvazian |
| Do blended sampling designs provide robust estimates: where is the evidence | |
| Margo L Barr, David Steel |
| The Effects of Mode and Sampling Design on Answers in Mixed-Mode Online Panel Research | |
| Sebastian Kocar |
| Using Probability Surveys to Improve Inferences from Nonprobability Panels: How to get the best from both worlds? | |
| Darren Pennay, Dina Neiger, Stephen Prendergast |
| Bias Reduction for an Online Tracking Survey | |
| Dina Neiger, Andrew C Ward, Tina Petroulias |
Video reflexive ethnography: Creative scholarship for impact - Part 1
| Video reflexive ethnography in hospital with people with dementia and delirium – Can it be done? | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Tamsin Symonds, Ann Dadich, Aileen Collier, Annmarie Hosie, Anita De Bellis, Alan Bevan, Justin Prendergast, Elly Morgan |
| How to reveal and encourage brilliant feeding care | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Khadeejah Elizabeth Moraby, Ann Dadich, Christopher Elliot, Marika Diamantes, Kate Hodge |
| A family-video to die for: Bringing the family back to family-centred palliative care with VRE | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Kathrine Hammill, Ann Dadich, Rajesh Aggarwal, Jodie Peronchik, Daniela Vasquez, Charbel Bejjani |
Video reflexive ethnography: Creative scholarship for impact - Part 2
| Exploring patients' experiences of being involved in video-reflexive ethnographic research | |
| Mary Wyer |
| Translating video-reflexive research methods into practitioner-led projects: challenges and opportunities. | |
| Suyin Hor, Mary Wyer, Lyn Gilbert |
| A mixed methods study of the risk-taking behaviour of clinical staff towards routine use of protective masks for infectious diseases | |
| Ruth Barratt, Lyn Gilbert, Ramon Z Shaban |
Online panel development and retention
| Experimentation in voter behaviour research methodology | |
| Raphaella Kathryn Crosby |
| A Probabilistic Online Panel for New Zealand | |
| Lara Greaves |
| Transitioning from CATI to Online | |
| Benjamin Phillips, Andrew C Ward |
Social theoretical frameworks
| Critical realism and social systems theory for case study research | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Josh Hallwright |
| Revealing Hidden Contradictions in Women Entrepreneurship Through the Application of Multiple Theoretical Frameworks | |
| James Stephen Purkis, Mosfeka Jomaraty |
| Researching children’s outdoor play in post human times: Interrogating methodology and methods as a project emerges | |
| Barbara Anne Chancellor |
| Potential use of Delphi to conduct mixed-methods research: A study of a research project on leadership. | Full Paper - DOCX |
| Shankar Sankaran, Barb Vindin Illingworth, Bob Dick, Kelly Shaw |
Innovative qualitative and mixed method approaches
| Factors that contribute to transitional experiences of internationally qualified midwives into the Australian midwifery system: A mixed method study | |
| Mitra Javanmard |
| Understanding Student Aggression and Victimization in the Filipino Context using Mixed Method Research | |
| January Merilles Dechavez |
| Using Cross-Case Analysis and Activity Theory to Investigate the Home-School Technology Debate in a Rural Australian Setting | |
| James Stephen Purkis |
| A Multi-Level Activity Theory Approach to the Implementation of BYOD in a Rural Secondary School | |
| James Stephen Purkis |
ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
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