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Biography:
Gerry Redmond has been at the Social Policy Research Centre since 1997. Before that he was a social policy researcher both in the UK Department of Social Security (now the Department of Work and Pensions) and at the Department of Applied Economics, the University of Cambridge. Between 2001 and 2006 he was at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, where he did research on children’s well-being in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The main focus of his research is child poverty and well-being in Australia and in other countries, with a particular focus on poverty and inequality, infant mortality, and children’s own perspectives on their well-being. His main research skills are in the statistical analysis of survey microdata and aggregate data on well-being indicators, and in policy analysis.
Research Areas:
Child poverty; child development; child agency; capabilities; social exclusion; children’s social and economic rights; child well-being indicators; child poverty and well-being in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; household survey microdata; international comparisons of inequality, poverty and child well-being.
Research:
Current research projects include:
- Making a Difference: Children’s Perspectives on Economic Disadvantage (ARC Linkage Project)
- Maternity Leave and Child Outcomes (project for Australian Government)
- Department of Families, Housing, Community Services, and Indigenous Affairs)
- Living Standards of Young and Old (ARC Discovery Project)
- Child Poverty in the Pacific Islands (project for UNICEF)
- Child Migrants in Australia (project for UNICEF)
More information on Current
research projects
Publications:
Recent Journal Articles and Books Chapters
Katz, I and G Redmond (forthcoming) ‘Public Expenditure on Children in Australia: International Comparisons and Recent Trends’ Sociology of Health Review (accepted 9 January 2009).
Menchini, L and G Redmond (forthcoming) ‘Poverty and Deprivation Among Children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’ International Journal of Social Welfare, published online - DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00620.x
Katz, I and G Redmond (2009, forthcoming) ‘Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes’ Social Policy Review 21, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Menchini, and G Redmond (2009, forthcoming) ‘Extreme Poverty among Children in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States’ in J Aidukaite, ed., Poverty, Urbanity and Social Policy: Central and Eastern Europe in a Broader Context, Nova Sciences Publishers, New York.
Redmond, G and C Spooner (2009) ‘Alcohol and other drug related deaths among young people in CIS countries: proximal and distal causes and implications for policy’, International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(2009):38-47.
Redmond, G (2008) ‘Child Poverty and Child Rights: Edging Towards a Definition’, Journal of Children and Poverty 14(1):63-82 (March 2008).
Austen, S and G Redmond (2008) ‘Women’s incomes’, Australian Social Trends 2008, Australian Bureau of Statistics Cat. No. 4102.0, pp.153-157.
Redmond, G (2008) Children’s perspectives on economic adversity: a review of the literature, Discussion Paper No.2008-01, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.
Redmond, G (2007) ‘Infant Mortality in Armenia 1992-2000: A Comment’, Economics and Human Biology, July 2007, 5(2):350-4.
Redmond, G (2006) ‘Poverty Reduction Strategies and Well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia’ in Petmesidou M & C Papatheodorou (eds) Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean Area: Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium, London: Zed Books / CROP Series.
Aleshina, N and G Redmond (2005) ‘How High is Infant Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States?’, Population Studies, 59(1):39-55.
Recent Conference & Seminar Papers
Redmond, G. (2009) ‘Private and Public Spending on Children and Old People in Australia’, Paper for International Research Workshop, University of New South Wales, 19-20 February, 2009.
Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Understanding Influences on Children’s Outcomes: The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living’, Paper for Seventh Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 8-9 December 2008, Coogee, NSW [also presented at PhD Workshop, Social Policy Research Centre, the University of New South Wales, 10 November 2008].
Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Changing Patterns of Resource Transfers across the Lifecycle: Australia since the 1980s’, invited paper at Social Policy Research Services Workshop, Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services, and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.
Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Marital Splits and Family Incomes: New Evidence for Australia’ Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 July 2008 [also presented at SPRC Seminar, 28 July 2008].
Katz, I. and Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Brain Malleability and Investment in Early Childhood’, Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 July 2008.
Katz, I. and Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Wealth as a protective factor for child outcomes’, Social Policy Association Conference, Edinburgh, 23-25 June 2008.
Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Children’s Agency and the Welfare State: Policy Priorities and Contradictions in Australia and the UK’, Social Policy Association Conference, Edinburgh, 23-25 June 2008.
Redmond, G (2008) ‘Women’s Relative Incomes under Conservative and Liberal Policy Regimes: an Australian Case’ Paper for Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Torino, June 19-July 21, 2008.
Redmond, G. (2008) ‘Living Standards and Child Development’ presented at PhD Seminar, School of Social Sciences and international Studies, University of New South Wales, 1 May 2008.
Redmond, G., (2007) Children’s agency and the welfare state: some policies in Australia and the UK examined’, refereed paper for Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, University of New South Wales, 10-11 December.
Katz, I. and G. Redmond (2007), ‘Why do rich children have better outcomes?” An analysis of the LSAC ‘K’ cohort’, paper presented at Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Redmond, G. (2007) ‘Developing Definitions of Poverty, Deprivation and Social Exclusion for Children’, presented at PhD Seminar, School of Social Sciences and international Studies, University of New South Wales, 17 May 2007.
Redmond, G. (2006), ‘Child poverty and child rights: edging towards a definition’, Human Development and Capability Approach Conference, Groningen, Netherlands, 29 August to 1 September, also presented as a refereed paper at Conference of the Society of Heterodox Economists, Sydney, 11-12 December.
Redmond, G. (2006),‘Children’s experience of economic adversity in their family context: a review of some relevant literature’, presentation at Workshop on Making a Difference: Building on Children’s Experience of Economic Adversity in their Family Context, University of New South Wales, 30 November to 1 December.
Katz, I. and G. Redmond (2006), ‘Private and public investment in the different stages of childhood in Australia’, presentation at the Department of Families and Community Services and Aboriginal Affairs Workshop on social policy research, Canberra, 27-28 November.
Redmond G., with L. Menchini (2006), ‘Child consumption poverty in South Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States’, paper presented at the 29th General Conference of International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Joensuu, Finland, 20-26 August.
Redmond G. (2006), ‘Women’s financial independence: the case of Australia 1982-2003’, paper presented at Annual Conference of International Association for Feminist Economics, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Recent Consultancy and other Reports
Redmond, G and A Zhu (2008) Maternity Leave and Child Outcomes, draft final report for Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, August 2008.
Redmond, G (2008), The impact of separation and child support on parents’ and children’s living standards, draft final report for Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, January 2008.
Katz, I and G Redmond (2007) Wealth as a Protective Factor for Child Outcomes, final report for Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, December 2007.
Katz, I and G Redmond (2007) Private and Public Investment in the Different Stages of Childhood in Australia, final report for Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, December 2007.
Redmond, G (2007) Changing Patterns of Resource Transfers across the Lifecycle: Australia since the 1980s, final report for Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, November 2007.
UNICEF (2006) Innocenti Social Monitor 2006, Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre http://www.unicef-icdc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/Lunga.sql?ProductID=366
UNICEF (2004) Innocenti Social Monitor 2004, Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre http://www.unicef-icdc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/Lunga.sql?ProductID=366
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