Genevieve Heard
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- Email: Genevieve.Heard@arts.monash.edu.au
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Biography
Genevieve Heard completed her PhD in Sociology in 2007 through CPUR and now works part-time in the Centre. She had worked in the Demography Section of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for several years before returning to study. Genevieve graduated with first class Honours in Sociology from the University of Tasmania in 2000.
Research
Genevieve’s doctoral research concerned the evolution of the national debate over low fertility. Her thesis assesses the direction of this debate and of policy responses to low fertility against current theories and against statistical realities.
Genevieve brings to CPUR considerable experience in working with fertility data (the ABS births collection in particular) and a thorough knowledge of the theoretical and policy debates surrounding the issue of low fertility in Australia. Other research interests include trends in partnering. Her skills in data analysis and commentary are applicable to a broad range of projects undertaken within the Centre.
Publications
G. Heard, B.Birrell and S.-E. Khoo, Intermarriage in Australia: Patterns by Birthplace, Ancestry, Religion and Indigenous Status, Centre for Population and Urban Research, Melbourne, forthcoming.
G. Heard, B.Birrell and S.-E. Khoo, ‘Intermarriage between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians’ People and Place, vol. 17, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1–14.
S.-E. Khoo, B.Birrell and G. Heard ‘Intermarriage by birthplace and ancestry in Australia’ People and Place, vol. 17, no. 1, 2009, pp. 15–28.
G. Heard, ‘The use of the fertility issue in the Australian campaign for paid maternity leave’ Just Policy, no. 48, 2008, pp. 16–22.
G. Heard, ‘Partnerships at the 2006 census: preliminary findings’ People and Place, vol. 16, no. 1, 2008, pp. 31–39.
G. Heard, ‘Boom or Gloom? Cohort fertility data from the 2006 Census' People and Place, vol. 15, no. 3, 2007, pp. 1–11.
G. Heard, ‘Pronatalism under Howard’ People and Place, vol. 14, no. 3, 2006, pp.12–25.
Conference Presentations
‘Socio-economic patterns of partnering in Australia’, presented at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, July 9–11, 2008.
‘The use of the fertility issue in the Australian campaign for paid maternity leave’, presented at the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) & SAANZ Joint Conference, Auckland, Dec 4–7, 2007.
‘Boom or gloom? Australian fertility—first results from the 2006 census’, presented at the British Society for Population Studies conference, St. Andrews, Sep 11–13, 2007.
‘Towards a sociology of the Australian maternity leave debate—intersections with the fertility debate’, presented at the European Sociological Association conference, Glasgow, Sep 3–6, 2007.
‘Conservative voices in the Australian fertility debate’, presented at TASA conference, Perth, Dec 4–7, 2006.
‘Socio-economic fertility differentials in Australia’, presented at TASA conference, Hobart, Dec 5–8, 2005.
Media commentary
D. Cooke (2009) ‘Christians lead way in catholic tastes in marriage stakes’, The Age, 20 July, p.3.
A. Shanahan (2008) ‘Wedding rings less likely to reach the lower rungs’, The Australian, 19 April, p.28.
A. Tattersall (2008) ‘Love your work—how job security makes wedding bells chime’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April, p. 35.
M. Devine (2008) ‘New class divisions in altered states’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 April, p. 13.
S. Lunn (2008) ‘Wedded bliss is all a matter of degrees’, The Australian, 7 April, p.3.
C. Nader (2008) ‘Marriage prospects a few degrees closer for women’, The Age, 7 April, p.3.
A. Horin and H. Alexander (2008) ‘Want a husband? Get a degree’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 April, p. 1.
J. Masanauskas (2008) ‘Marriage? That’s so very middle class these days’, Herald Sun, 7 April, p.15.
‘Educated women more likely to marry’ (2008), AM, ABC Radio National, 7 April.
‘Women with degrees seen as a prime marriage prospect’ (2008), ABC News Radio, 7 April.
‘Australia’s new baby boom’ (2008), Background Briefing, ABC Radio National, 23 March.
A. Horin (2007) ‘For better or worse, baby boom stumbles at the aisle’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July, p.8.
F. Farouque (2007) ‘A serious business’ and ‘Bored of the rings’, The Age, 21 July, p.4 and Insight p.1.
Research Consultancies
Victorian State Department of Human Services, Drivers of fertility change, literature review and data analysis, with Bob Birrell, 2008.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Intermarriage in Australia, with Bob Birrell and Siew-Ean Khoo of ANU, 2008.
Victorian State Department of Human Services, Investigation into the recent increase in birth notifications in Victoria, with Bob Birrell, November 2007.
Fairfax Press, First results from the 2006 Census, with Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy and Daniel Edwards, July 2007.