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Never let a crisis go to waste: COVID-19 silver linings Families Under Pressure
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Never Let a Crisis go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19.
This is a special episode, recorded as part of a panel discussion hosted by Life Course Centre research leaders. In the midst of a global crisis that has upended almost all aspects of how we live and work, a life course approach turns attention to the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Looking at the pandemic through a life course lens also provides a chance to reflect on opportunities from COVID-19 for examining long-standing, taken-for-granted rules and regulations about living and working.
In the paper, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste: Opportunities to reduce social disadvantage from COVID-19’, Life Course Centre researchers offer ideas on potential opportunities for rethinking, redesigning and reworking social policies to address disadvantage. This provides an optimistic, forward-looking counterpoint to what has been a catastrophic global social, health and economic event.
In this special webinar recording from Anti-Poverty Week, Life Course Centre Chief Investigators Professors Janeen Baxter, Stephen Zubrick, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Guyonne Kalb, discuss opportunities arising from COVID-19 to address long-standing inequalities in Australia in areas such as health, the tax and transfer system, labour markets and gender. There will be other pandemics and other global shocks. What we learn, and do, today will have significant bearing on future preparations and responses. This discussion explores some of the ways we might leverage the COVID-19 crisis to build back a better and fairer society for all.
More information:
Life Course Centre:
https://www.lifecoursecentre.org.au/
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8462.12428
Anti-Poverty Week
https://antipovertyweek.org.au/
Professor Janeen Baxter is the Director of the Life Course Centre, a position she had held since the Centre’s establishment in 2014. Based at the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland, she has research interests in disadvantage, gender inequality and family dynamics.
https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/910
Professor Stephen Zubrick is a former Life Course Centre Chief Investigator and Deputy Director 2014-2020 and now an Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow. An expert in child health, he is an Emeritus Professor at The University of Western Australia and an Emeritus Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute. https://www.telethonkids.org.au/contact-us/our-people/z/stephen-zubrick/
Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark is the Deputy Director of the Life Course Centre and has been a Chief Investigator since the Centre’s establishment in 2014. Based at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, her research focus covers disadvantage, welfare and economic/social policy.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/deborah-cobb-clark.html
Professor Guyonne Kalb is a Life Course Centre Chief Investigator at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in applied micro-economics and include labour supply issues, particularly female labour supply. https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6582-guyonne-kalb
Never Let a Crisis go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19.
This is a special episode, recorded as part of a panel discussion hosted by Life Course Centre research leaders. In the midst of a global crisis that has upended almost all aspects of how we live and work, a life course approach turns attention to the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Looking at the pandemic through a life course lens also provides a chance to reflect on opportunities from COVID-19 for examining long-standing, taken-for-granted rules and regulations about living and working.
In the paper, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste: Opportunities to reduce social disadvantage from COVID-19’, Life Course Centre researchers offer ideas on potential opportunities for rethinking, redesigning and reworking social policies to address disadvantage. This provides an optimistic, forward-looking counterpoint to what has been a catastrophic global social, health and economic event.
In this special webinar recording from Anti-Poverty Week, Life Course Centre Chief Investigators Professors Janeen Baxter, Stephen Zubrick, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Guyonne Kalb, discuss opportunities arising from COVID-19 to address long-standing inequalities in Australia in areas such as health, the tax and transfer system, labour markets and gender. There will be other pandemics and other global shocks. What we learn, and do, today will have significant bearing on future preparations and responses. This discussion explores some of the ways we might leverage the COVID-19 crisis to build back a better and fairer society for all.
More information:
Life Course Centre:
https://www.lifecoursecentre.org.au/
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8462.12428
Anti-Poverty Week
https://antipovertyweek.org.au/
Professor Janeen Baxter is the Director of the Life Course Centre, a position she had held since the Centre’s establishment in 2014. Based at the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland, she has research interests in disadvantage, gender inequality and family dynamics.
https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/910
Professor Stephen Zubrick is a former Life Course Centre Chief Investigator and Deputy Director 2014-2020 and now an Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow. An expert in child health, he is an Emeritus Professor at The University of Western Australia and an Emeritus Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute. https://www.telethonkids.org.au/contact-us/our-people/z/stephen-zubrick/
Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark is the Deputy Director of the Life Course Centre and has been a Chief Investigator since the Centre’s establishment in 2014. Based at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, her research focus covers disadvantage, welfare and economic/social policy.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/deborah-cobb-clark.html
Professor Guyonne Kalb is a Life Course Centre Chief Investigator at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are in applied micro-economics and include labour supply issues, particularly female labour supply. https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6582-guyonne-kalb
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