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Research projects

Listed below are the themes that our members undertake their current research projects and have interests in. Members are sorted by these research themes:

Communication and marketing time use | Emerging research areas | Recreation and leisure | Social and community interaction | Time use and income | Travel time | Valuing time | Voluntary work and care | Work-Life balance

Communication and marketing time use

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Ms Christina Inbakaran	Department of Transport, Victorian Government	Online data portals	Travel time data access in Australia and The Netherlands

Emerging research areas

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Ms Elena Barbera	Open University of Catalonia	Time of quality in online learning; work-life-learning balance; temporal patterns and paces in cross -cultural online Higher Education	Time Regulation in online learning and effectiveness; future time perspective and achievement
Ms Jude Brown	University of New England	Time use methodologies, children's activities and obesity. The relationship between children's activities and their outcomes
Dr Lyn Craig	University of New South Wales	Work-family balance, the gender division of labour, the time impacts of children, motherhood and equity, fertility, and comparative family and social policy
Ms Laura Desha	University of Queensland	Adolescent time use and depression, children's occupational performance and participation, the Koala project at Mater Hospital	Koala clinical research team
Dr Kimberly Fisher	University of Oxford	Cross-time and cross-national dataset harmonisation, diary methods and design, assessing quality of leisure and free time, time with companion animals, time in care (of adults, children and pets), research ethics, physical activity	Upgrade of the Multinational Time Use Study data sets, upgrade of resources on the Centre for Time Use Research web site, overviews of the field of time use research, developing ethical standards for the time use research field, measuring quality of life in relation to recent trends in leisure and time with companion animals
Dr Gigi Foster	University of New South Wales	Social effect in education, health and the workplace; human sorting processes; labor and health economics; applied behavioural microeconomics	Peer effects in Australian higher education, the behavioural effects and consequent policy implications of positive expectations and the future, using the Australia Time Use data and the Longitudinal Study of Australian children to investigate aspects of parental time devoted to child care in the home.
Dr Reina Ichii	RMIT University	The gender impacts of fiscal policy (gender responsive budgeting), intra-household resource allocation, particularly time use analysis of domestic care activities	Work-life balance strategies in Japanese multinational companies, Work-life balance issues in urban planning areas, Developing the Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI)
Dr Steven McEachern	Australian National Unversity	Trust in organisations, research methodology: multi-level measurement, CATI, trade union membership in an Australian and international context, industrial relations in a regional context. Working hours, leisure time and wellbeing	Workplace trust and individual stress, Pro-environmental behaviour of individuals and households, Working hours, consumption and time use, Time use and wellbeing
Dr Killian Mullan	University of New South Wales	Children and young peoples' time use, the measurement and economic valuation of childcare provided by parents, and methodological issues relating to the analysis of time use data	Negotiating work/life balance
Dr Tomomi Shinada	Rikkyo University	Historical change in unpaid work and child rearing, ethical living, gender equity, social stratification	Time poverty and social stratification
Ms Carol Soloff	Australian Institute of Family Studies	Children and families	Management of Growing Up in Australia, the longitudinal study of Australian children
Dr Hidde P. van der Ploeg	University of Sydney	Research in physical activity and health. Main interests are intervention studies in populations with chronic disease, measurement of physical activity, and secondary analyses of population-based datasets (such as time use surveys).	1) Determining the validity and reliability of time use surveys in estimating physical activity and sedentary behaviour. 2) Using time use surveys to estimate population levels of physical activity and sedentary behaviour and their relationship with overweight and obesity.
Dr Eileen Willis	Flinders University	Aboriginal health issues with a focus on social determinants of health, health professional work with focus on working time and IR issues, Political economy of health policy, phenomenological approaches to developing a vocational approach to caring work including the sociology of health and illness	Aboriginal Health, Aboriginal health workers; provision of essential services, rural and remote area nurses, work time in health services, health services and industrial relations
Ms Jeanine Willson	The Australian National University	Child development, especially the cognitive development of preschool children and the impact of time use, particularly media use and health behaviours such as exercise and eating behaviours, on cognitive development. I am also interested in how parenting influences these aspects of preschoolers' time use	Parenting Preschoolers

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Recreation and leisure

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Dr Peter Braun	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	The balance of provision of services in aged care as the system matures, Number theory	Aspects of aged care
Dr Kimberly Fisher	University of Oxford	Cross-time and cross-national dataset harmonisation, diary methods and design, assessing quality of leisure and free time, time with companion animals, time in care (of adults, children and pets), research ethics, physical activity	Upgrade of the Multinational Time Use Study data sets, upgrade of resources on the Centre for Time Use Research web site, overviews of the field of time use research, developing ethical standards for the time use research field, measuring quality of life in relation to recent trends in leisure and time with companion animals
Dr Roger Patulny	University of New South Wales	The trends, meanings, and emotional qualities concerned with social connection, social capital and social cohesion, and the links between these qualities and changes in social policy, demography, life-course transitions and population ageing, and mental health	Poor Women and Lonely Man - Examining gendered social inclusion and connection in Australia, Implementation of the Stronger Families and Communities Evaluation, Updated budget standard estimates for Australian working families in September 2003
Dr Ben Rossiter	Victoria Walks
Dr Peter Vitartas	Southern Cross University	Media, retail/shopping and travel time use. Secondary time use.	International differences in media time use, retail and travel time use and rural and urban differences in media and retail time use. The effect of household structure and social time on media and retail time use.

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Social and community interaction

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Dr Dharma Arunachalam	Monash University	Fertility, family formation and change, family/household structure, health and migration	Fertility and partnering in Australia, social cohesion in Australia, international migration, family and household structures, ageing and health
Dr Michael Bittman	University of New England	Social policy and social change, family dynamics, time spent in unpaid work (especially caring for others), trends in working hours, and the distribution of leisure	How income affects time spent unpaid work, research on the effects non-parental child care on parenting, measuring social participation and using time-diaries to identify the needs of carers
Dr Peter Braun	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	The balance of provision of services in aged care as the system matures, Number theory	Aspects of aged care
Dr Lyn Craig	University of New South Wales	Work-family balance, the gender division of labour, the time impacts of children, motherhood and equity, fertility, and comparative family and social policy
Ms Margaret Cupitt	Australian Communications and Media Authority	Families and media literacy, community research into media and society
Dr Roger Patulny	University of New South Wales	The trends, meanings, and emotional qualities concerned with social connection, social capital and social cohesion, and the links between these qualities and changes in social policy, demography, life-course transitions and population ageing, and mental health	Poor Women and Lonely Man - Examining gendered social inclusion and connection in Australia, Implementation of the Stronger Families and Communities Evaluation, Updated budget standard estimates for Australian working families in September 2003
Dr Ben Rossiter	Victoria Walks
Ms Maneerat Pinyopusarerk	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	Expenditure on health and welfare by Indigenous status Time use by carers in informal sector, funding of services by government, non-government, community services organisations and clients	Welfare expenditure, Indigenous health expenditure, utilisation of health services by children and youth

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Time use and income

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Mr Tim Rathjen	Leuphana University Lüneburg Germany	Time use and income

Travel time

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Ms Christina Inbakaran	Department of Transport, Victorian Government	Online data portals, journey to work analysis, public transport accessibility	Transport costs and housing affordability, migration patterns of home buyers, community perceptions of road safety initiatives, profiles of buyers in growth areas of Melbourne
Dr Duncan Ironmonger	University of Melbourne	National time accounts, volunteering time and travel time	Household economics, specialising on household input-output tables and household satellite national accounts, estimates of Gross Household Product (GHP), and modelling the household economy, household size, household age structure, and projections of numbers of households
Mr Bryan Lewis	Waikato University, New Zealand	Transport to school modes for primary age children, methods that encourage Active Transport Mode choices by teachers, parents and children, encouraging healthy activity, a more vibrant community and safer roads as well as reduced school related congestion.	Car-free Hamilton residents
Mr Philip Norman	Department of Transport, Victorian Government	Value and duration of travel time, time-of-day profiles of transport usage, travel time within the context of overall time use, economic cost benefit appraisal, changing social patterns of time use in work and family, changing gender roles, journey to work	Estimating time use in Melbourne (with Dr Duncan Ironmonger); Pricing the travel time of busy women (with Donatella Cavagnoli)

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Valuing time

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Dr Duncan Ironmonger	University of Melbourne	National time accounts, volunteering time and travel time	Household economics, specialising on household input-output tables and household satellite national accounts, estimates of Gross Household Product (GHP), and modelling the household economy, household size, household age structure, and projections of numbers of households

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Voluntary work and care

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Dr Dharma Arunachalam	Monash University	Fertility, family formation and change, family/household structure, health and migration	Fertility and partnering in Australia, social cohesion in Australia, international migration, family and household structures, ageing and health
Dr Michael Bittman	University of New England	Social policy and social change, family dynamics, time spent in unpaid work (especially caring for others), trends in working hours, and the distribution of leisure	How income affects time spent unpaid work, research on the effects non-parental child care on parenting, measuring social participation and using time-diaries to identify the needs of carers
Dr Peter Braun	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	The balance of provision of services in aged care as the system matures, Number theory	Aspects of aged care
Mrs Gail Brien	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Dr Duncan Ironmonger	University of Melbourne	National time accounts, volunteering time and travel time	Household economics, specialising on household input-output tables and household satellite national accounts, estimates of Gross Household Product (GHP), and modelling the household economy, household size, household age structure, and projections of numbers of households
Dr Steven McEachern	Australian National Unversity	Trust in organisations, research methodology: multi-level measurement, CATI, trade union membership in an Australian and international context, industrial relations in a regional context. Working hours, leisure time and wellbeing	Workplace trust and individual stress, Pro-environmental behaviour of individuals and households, Working hours, consumption and time use, Time use and wellbeing
Ms Asha Titus	University of Newcastle	Economic sociology, with special focus on quality of working life, the global production network and the high technology industry in developing countries; Sociology of Development - Participatory development; Australian Aboriginal Studies - Justice and Reconciliation, Structural determinants of health, Loss and grief rituals.	Quality of Working Life in the Software Outsourcing Industry

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Work-Life balance

Name	Organisation	Interests	Current research	Web link
Dr Dharma Arunachalam	Monash University	Fertility, family formation and change, family/household structure, health and migration	Fertility and partnering in Australia, social cohesion in Australia, international migration, family and household structures, ageing and health
Dr Jennifer Baxter	Australian Institute of Family Studies	The interaction between work and family	Analysis of parents' and children's time use, breastfeeding and return-to-work, international comparisons of work-family policies, childcare and parental employment, analysis of changing lifetime employment patterns of women, financial wellbeing and parental employment
Dr Michael Bittman	University of New England	Social policy and social change, family dynamics, time spent in unpaid work (especially caring for others), trends in working hours, and the distribution of leisure	How income affects time spent unpaid work, research on the effects non-parental child care on parenting, measuring social participation and using time-diaries to identify the needs of carers
Ms Megan Blaxland	University of New South Wales	Analysis of how people negotiate their way through policy environments, with particular regard to gender, care and employment	Grandparents Bringing up their Grandchildren: A national state and territory analysis, Trends in Time: Work, family and Social Policy in Australian 1992–2006
Ms Jude Brown	University of New England	Time use methodologies, children's activities and obesity. The relationship between children's activities and their outcomes
Dr Lyn Craig	University of New South Wales	Work-family balance, the gender division of labour, the time impacts of children, motherhood and equity, fertility, and comparative family and social policy
Dr Kimberly Fisher	University of Oxford	Cross-time and cross-national dataset harmonisation, diary methods and design, assessing quality of leisure and free time, time with companion animals, time in care (of adults, children and pets), research ethics, physical activity	Upgrade of the Multinational Time Use Study data sets, upgrade of resources on the Centre for Time Use Research web site, overviews of the field of time use research, developing ethical standards for the time use research field, measuring quality of life in relation to recent trends in leisure and time with companion animals
Mr Dominik Hanglberger	Leuphana University Lüneburg Germany	Flexibility, job satisfaction
Dr Reina Ichii	RMIT University	The gender impacts of fiscal policy (gender responsive budgeting), intra-household resource allocation, particularly time use analysis of domestic care activities	Work-life balance strategies in Japanese multinational companies, Work-life balance issues in urban planning areas, Developing the Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI)
Dr Duncan Ironmonger	University of Melbourne	National time accounts, volunteering time and travel time	Household economics, specialising on household input-output tables and household satellite national accounts, estimates of Gross Household Product (GHP), and modelling the household economy, household size, household age structure, and projections of numbers of households
Ms Jo Lindsay	Monash University	Gender relations, family diversity, sexuality, health, inequality and young people	“What a great night”: The cultural drivers of alcohol consumption among young people (with P Kelly, L Harrison and C Hickey), New Configurations of Work and Family: Nurses and builders managing work and care (with J Maher and A Bardoel), Families, relationships and intimate life (with D Dempsey)
Dr JaneMaree Maher	Monash University	Work/family balance, women's mothering and employment, and pregnancy and birth	New models of family, changing gender relations and the use of time within families, New Configurations of Work and Family, Transnational reproduction and care work
Dr Steven McEachern	Australian National Unversity	Trust in organisations, research methodology: multi-level measurement, CATI, trade union membership in an Australian and international context, industrial relations in a regional context. Working hours, leisure time and wellbeing	Workplace trust and individual stress, Pro-environmental behaviour of individuals and households, Working hours, consumption and time use, Time use and wellbeing
Dr Ken Reed	ACSPRI	Using time-use data to analyse cross-national lifestyle patterns, The decline of confidence in public institutions, Trust and stress in the workplace, Mode and method effects in survey research	Sources of survey error; cross-national surveys
Ms Asha Titus	University of Oxford	Economic sociology, with special focus on quality of working life, the global production network and the high technology industry in developing countries; Sociology of Development - Participatory development; Australian Aboriginal Studies - Justice and Reconciliation, Structural determinants of health, Loss and grief rituals.	Quality of Working Life in the Software Outsourcing Industry
Mrs Marie-Louise van der Klooster	Deakin University	Time use and time perceptions in distance, online and flexible learning	Assumptions and concerns in distance and flexible learning
Dr Eileen Willis	Flinders University	Aboriginal health issues with a focus on social determinants of health, health professional work with focus on working time and IR issues, Political economy of health policy, phenomenological approaches to developing a vocational approach to caring work including the sociology of health and illness	Aboriginal Health, Aboriginal health workers; provision of essential services, rural and remote area nurses, work time in health services, health services and industrial relations

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