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The Research and Education Advisory Committee provides direction and advice on the development of NSPAC’s research agenda. EXTERNAL MEMBERSProf. Graeme Hugo Graeme HUGO is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in population issues in Australia and South East Asia, especially migration. He is the author of over three hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. In 2002 he secured an ARC Federation Fellowship over five years for his research project, ‘The New Paradigm of International Migration To and From Australia: Dimensions, Causes and Implications’. His recent research has focused on migration and development, environment and migration and migration policy. In 2009 he was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship over five years for his research project ‘Circular Migration in Asia, the Pacific and Australia: Empirical, Theoretical and Policy Dimensions’. In 2009 with colleagues he completed a study of Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific for the Asian Development Bank.
Prof. Peter McDonald, AM Peter MCDONALD is Professor of Demography and Director of the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University. He is President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population for the years, 2010-2013. He is frequently consulted on the issue of population futures (causes, consequences and policies) by governments around the world, especially in Australia, Europe and East Asia. He is a leading expert on policies, including labour supply policies, for countries facing very low fertility rates and rapid ageing. In 2008, he was appointed as a Member in the Order of Australia. In 2010, Peter chaired the enquiry into the need for a population policy in Queensland organised by the Local Government Association of Queensland.
Dr. Don Rowland Don ROWLAND is a demographer and adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Sociology, RSSS, ANU. He was previously Convenor of the Population Studies Program at the ANU. His research has been concerned with Australian and New Zealand demography, especially migration, the family and ageing. He has published many academic articles and book chapters in these fields. He is also author and editor of eight books including Internal Migration in Australia, Population and Educational Planning, Pioneers Again, Ageing in Australia and Demographic Methods and Concepts. His current work is concerned with international trends in population ageing.
Mr. Saul Eslake Saul ESLAKE is widely recognised and respected as an economist and forthright public commentator. Saul was the Chief Economist of ANZ from 1995 to 2009. He is currently a member of the Federal Government's National Housing Supply Council, Chair of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, and a non-executive director of Hydro Tasmania. Saul has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.
Associate Professor Susan Kurrle Susan KURRLE is a geriatrician working in both hospital and community settings in northern Sydney. As Clinical Director of the Division of Rehabilitation and Aged Care she is responsible for the delivery of health services for older people in the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai local areas, and as Area Director she is responsible for the development of services for the 170,000 people aged over 65 years in the northern Sydney and Central Coast areas. She holds the Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People at the University of Sydney with regular involvement in teaching of medical students in the Sydney Medical Program. She has been successful with research grant applications in the areas of elder abuse, prevention of fall related injury, frailty, and dementia. She was awarded the David Wallace Medal for outstanding contributions to gerontology and aged care in 2006 by the Australian Association of Gerontology. PAC REAC EX OFFICIO MEMBERSDr. Jeromey Temple Peter Matwijiw Professor Judith Sloan Representative,
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