Dr Liz Allen
Research interests
Dr Liz Allen is a highly skilled demographer and social researcher with quantitative and qualitative expertise. Her research interests include:
- demography/population studies
- social trends
- population health
- health and education inequalities
- Indigenous demography
- gender and population
- census and data collections
- research methods, materials and ethics
- methodology innovation
Biography
Liz has considerable experience working in the public and academic sectors. She was named among the national Top 5 academics in the humanities and social sciences by the ABC in 2018.
The Future of Us, Liz's first book was published in 2020.
Liz’s doctoral research explored the individual, family and neighbourhood contributions to child excess weight and screen time among two Australian cohorts.
Liz has experience teaching a number of courses, including: postgraduate preparatory courses; SOCR1001 Foundations of Social Research; SOCR4008 Qualitative Social Research; SOCR8008 Qualitative Data Collection; SOCR8011 Mixed Methods Social Research; DEMO2001 Population Studies; DEMO8079 Health Demography; and DEMO8082 Social Research Practice.
Liz was formerly a representative for the Network of Early Career Teachers, Academics and Researchers at the ANU.
Liz was a national council member of the Australian Population Association 2016-2020.
Liz was Vice President of Australian Population Association 2012-16.
Liz was Secretary of the Australian Population Association 2008-12.
Current student projects
Katy Smith: Primary school attendance by Indigenous children in remote Northern Territory: what policies could be used to improve attendance rates? PhD scholar
Past student projects
Jeevana KC: Quality antenatal care and its influence on utilisation of skilled birth attendants in Nepal Masters Advanced scholar
Publications
- Kenny, M & Allen, L 2021, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Scarcity with Liz Allen.
- Allen, L 2021, Census 2021 joins a rich history of controversy and triumph in the national count.
- Davis, G, Allen, L, Taflaga, M et al. 2021, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Getting a go.
- Allen, L 2021, Why has Victoria struggled more than NSW with COVID? To a demographer, they’re not that different.
- Allen, L 2021, 'Promoting representation through data: the case for more comprehensive ethnicity data in Australia', Law in Context.
- Allen, L 2021, Outsourcing parenting'? Don't make me laugh.
- Allen, L 2021, Census 2021 is almost here - what’s changed since #censusfail? What’s at stake in this pandemic survey?.
- Allen, L 2021, Hold on to that hatred: Boomers aren’t to blame for Australia’s property mismatch.
- Allen, L 2021, 'Understanding ethnicity in contemporary Australia using the census', Australian Population Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 56-64.
- Allen, L 2020, The Future of Us: Demography gets a makeover, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney.
- Allen, L & Kenny, M 2020, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The future of us with Liz Allen.
- Kenny, M, Gilbert, K, Speers, D et al. 2020, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: The best bits.
- Allen, L 2020, COVID-19 could see thousands of women miss out on having kids, creating a demographic disaster for Australia.
- Allen, L, Stewart, M, Taflaga, M et al. 2020, Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Opportunity lost? The cost of Australia's new federal budget.
- Allen, L 2019, 'Population, immigration and policy', in Mark Evans, Michelle Grattan and Brendan McCaffrie (ed.), From Turnbull to Morrison: The Trust Divide, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Victoria.
- Allen, L 2018, 'A whole-of-government approach to population policy for Australia', Australian Population Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 22-32.
- Allen, L 2018, 'Advancing population wellbeing through demography', in (ed.), Connecting people with progress: securing future economic development, CEDA, Melbourne Australia, pp. 137-141.
- N Biddle, L Allen and F Markham. 2018, '2006-16 Aboriginal Population Change in New South Wales.'.
- N Biddle, L Allen and F Markham. 2018, '2006-16 Aboriginal Population Change in New South Wales.'.
- Abbott, E, Allen, L, Biddle, N et al. 2015, The Aboriginal population of NSW in 2015: Policy options and challenges.
- Allen, L, Archer, T & Makkai, T 2013, Academic leadership for succession: research and implementation across the arts, social sciences and humanities in Australia.
- Allen, L, Reimondos, A & Gray, E 2012, 'Fewer occupants, more bedrooms: Census shows Australians prefer bigger houses', The Conversation, vol. 29 June 2012.
- Gray, E, Reimondos, A & Allen, L 2012, 'Australian census: One in ten live alone, but that doesn't mean they're lonely', The Conversation, vol. 22 June 2012.
- Smyth, B, Rodgers, B, Allen, L et al 2012, 'Post-separation patterns of children's overnight stays with each parent: A detailed snapshot', Journal of Family Studies, vol. 18, no. 2-3, 202-221.
- Smyth, B, Rodgers, B, Vu, S, B, Allen, L and Vnuk, M. 2012, 'Separated parents' knowledge of how changes in parenting-time can affect child support payments and Family Tax Benefit splitting in Australia: A pre-/post-reform comparison', Australian Journal of Family Law, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 181-213.
- Allen, L 2011, Sustainable population Strategy: Public Policy and Implementation Challenges.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Widening Participation Longitudinal Study (WPLS) 2020 Implementation and Scoping Study (Secondary Investigator)
- Demographic and socioeconomic analysis of NSW Aboriginal Population (Secondary Investigator)
