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Life Course Centre
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
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Working paper
Understanding sleep routines: a novel mixed methods approach to understand promoters and barriers of healthy sleep
Sleep is critical to health, wellbeing, and daily functioning. This paper outlines the development of a mixed-method approach to capture individual and household level sleep routines.
Working paper
The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption: an instrumental variables approach
This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, and a nationally representative panel dataset from Australia, to present robust evidence on the causal impact of mental distress on cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours.
Report
Enabling electrification: addressing the barriers to moving off gas faced by lower-income households
This report explores the views of lower-income households about moving from gas to electricity as home energy sources, the barriers they face, and the implications for policy to achieve equitable solutions.
Working paper
From hostels to hotels: an empirical study of Brisbane’s innovative homelessness response
In the second quarter of 2020, the Queensland Government closed Brisbane’s main transitional housing and congregate-style homelessness facilities. In their place, an innovative homelessness accommodation response was established, which provides short-term supported accommodation in the form of self-contained hotel rooms at The Park Hotel (the Park). This research empirically and conceptually examines the Park as...
Working paper
Gender trap: the gender structure, violence, and women’s unfreedom
The aim of this research was to deepen our understanding of how gender-based violence functions as a mechanism of disadvantage in women’s lives. Through improving this understanding, the authors aim to help draw attention to key sites and opportunities for disrupting this process.