Peter McDonald
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae: Peter McDonald
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name:Peter Francis McDonald
Mailing Address:Crawford School of Public Policy
The AustralianNationalUniversity
Canberra A.C.T. 0200
Australia
Telephone:61 2 6125 2129
Email:
DEGREES
Graduated Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from the University of New South Wales in 1966 having majored in Economic Statistics. Honours thesis was entitled 'Stochastic Linear Programming' and was graded as high distinction level.
In 1972, completed a PhD degree in Demography at the AustralianNationalUniversity with a thesis entitled 'Age at First Marriage and Proportions Marrying in Australia, 1860 - 1971'. The thesis was later published under the title, Marriage in Australia.
HONOURS AND PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Vice President (2006-2009) and President (2010-2013), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
Appointed Member in the Order of Australia, 2008.
Member, Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration, 2012-2014.
Member, Council of Advisors, Population Europe.
Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), 2011-2017.
2015 Irene B. Taueber Award, Population Association of America.
EMPLOYMENT
1967 - 69Research Officer/Senior Research Officer, Population and Labour Statistics Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
1971Seconded for four months as Lecturer in Demography to the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia with support from the Australian Asian Universities Cooperation Scheme (now the International Development Program)
1973 - 74Fifteen months as Research Fellow, Department of Demography, The Australian National University seconded to the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia.
1974 - 76Project Specialist, the Ford Foundation, Consultant and Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia.
1976 - 83Research Fellow, Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, The AustralianNationalUniversity.
Aug 1982 -Consultant, The World Fertility Survey, London.
Feb 1983
June 1983 -Deputy Director, Research, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Mar 1994
Mar 1994-Principal Consultant, Australian Urban and Regional Development Review
Mar 1995
Mar 1995-Professor of Demography, The AustralianNationalUniversity
Aug 1996-Head, Demography Program, ResearchSchool of Social Sciences,
Dec 2001The AustralianNationalUniversity
Jan 2002-Head, Demography and Sociology Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Sept 2007 The AustralianNationalUniversity
Jan 2001-Director, ANU Centre of the Australian Housing and Urban Research
Mar 2002Institute.
Jan 2001-Co-Director, Australian Centre for Population Research
Dec 2005
Sept 2007-Director, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian
June 2013National University
July 2013-Professor of Demography, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
PUBLICATIONS PRIOR TO 1995
Books and Monographs
Marriage in Australia: Age at First Marriage and Proportions Marrying, 1860 - 1971, Australian Family Formation Project, Monograph No. 2, The Australian National University, 1974, 311p.
Levels and Trends in Fertility and Childhood Mortality in Indonesia, Monograph No. 1, Indonesian Fertility-Mortality Survey 1973, Demographic Institute, University of Indonesia, 1976, 79p. (Senior author, with Mohammad Yasin and Gavin W. Jones).
Responses to Population Pressure: The Case of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, GadjahMadaUniversity Press, Yogyakarta, 1976, 106p. (Senior author, with Alip Sontasudarmo).
Nuptiality and Completed Fertility: A Study of Starting, Stopping and Spacing Behaviour, Comparative Studies No. 35, World Fertility Survey, London, 1984.
Marriage Dissolution and Remarriage, Comparative Studies No. 34, World Fertility Survey, London, 1984 (with David P. Smith and Enrique Carrasco).
Pedoman Analisa Data Sensus Penduduk Indonesia, 1971-1980 (A Manual for Analysis of Census Data from the 1971 and 1980 Censuses of Indonesia), editor, Australian Universities International Development Program, Gadjah Mada University Press, 1983.
Settling Up: Property and income distribution on divorce in Australia, Prentice-Hall of Australia, Sydney, 1986 (editor-in-chief).
Child Poverty (co-editor with Don Edgar and David Keane), Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989.
The Australian Living Standards Study: Berwick Report, editor, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1993.
The Australian Living Standards Study: Box Hill Report, editor, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1993.
Journal Articles or Book Chapters
Recent Trends in Mortality in Australia, Journal of Biosocial Science, 4, 1972, pp.25-36.
A Note on the Measurement of the Incidence of First Marriage, Economic Record, 48, (122), June 1972, pp.260-265 (First author with S.K. Jain).
Fewer Indonesians?, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 8, (1), March 1972.
McDonald, P. 1974. ‘A Manual for the Adjustment of the Ages of Young Children from the Single Year Age Distribution for Provinces, Census of Indonesia, 1971’. Majalah Demografi Indonesia. 1(1): 54-65.
'Nuptiality and Fertility in Australia, 1921-1976', in Lado T. Ruzicka ed., Nuptiality and Fertility, proceedings of a Seminar held in Bruges (Belgium), 8-11 January 1979, Ordina Editions, Liege, 1981, pp.211-242 (second author, with J.C. Caldwell and L.T. Ruzicka).
'An Historical Perspective to Population Growth in Indonesia' in J. J. Fox ed., Indonesia: The Making of a Culture, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1981, pp.81-94.
'The Equality of Distribution of Child Mortality, Java-Bali 1950-76', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 3, November 1980, pp.115-119.
'The Influence of Maternal Education on Infant and Child Mortality: Levels and Causes', Health Policy and Education, 2, (1982), pp.251-267 (second author with J.C.Caldwell).
'Social Change and Age at Marriage' in Solicited Papers of the International Population Conference, Manila, 1981. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liege, Vol.5, pp.761-766.
'The Interdisciplinary Approach to the Teaching of Demography: A Viewpoint on Issues and Experience', in Proceedings and Selected Papers of the International Conference, Manila, 1981, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liege, Vol.5, pp.761-766.
'Teaching Demography', in The International Encyclopaedia of Population, John Ross ed., The Free Press, New York, 1982.
'The Measurement of Differential Mortality in the Absence of Complete Death Registration Statistics, in L.T. Ruzicka ed., Mortality in Asia: A Review of Changing Trends and Patterns 1950-75, WHO/ESCAP, Manila, 1982.
'Interrelations Between Nuptiality and Fertility: Evidence from the World Fertility Survey', Proceedings of the World Fertility Survey Conference, London, 1980, International Statistical Institute, Voorburg, 1982 (First author, with L.T.Ruzicka and J.C. Caldwell).
'The New Indonesian Marriage Law: Some Impressions from Village-Level Research', American Journal of Comparative Law, 27(2) Spring, 1979 (First author with Kasto).
'Lifecourse transitions in Victoria in the 1880s', in Patricia Grimshaw, Chris McConville and Ellen McEwin, Families in Colonial Australia, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1985, pp.64-82 (First author with Patricia Quiggin).
'Approaches to Massive Population Growth: The Case of Indonesia', in Gavin W. Jones ed., Demographic Transition in Asia, Maruzen Asia, Singapore, 1984, pp.125-146.
'Marriage and Divorce in Australia', in The Population of Australia, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), 1983.
'Can the family survive", Australian Society, Vol. 2, No. 11, December 1983.
'Social organisation and nuptiality in developing societies', in John Cleland and John Hobcraft eds, Reproductive Change in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985, pp.87-114.
'Nuptiality', in The Social Science Encyclopaedia, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
'The age difference between spouses:variations among developing countries', Population Studies, 40, 1986. (Third author with John Casterline and Lindy Williams).
'The data base for child support reform', Child Support, Social Justice Project, AustralianNationalUniversity, Canberra, 1986.
McDonald, P. ‘The dictionary of demography’, European Journal of Population, book review, 2 (3-4): 410-412, 1986.
'Payment of child maintenance in Australia: the current position, research findings and reform proposals', International Journal of Law and the Family, 1 (1), April 1987. (with Margaret Harrison and Ruth Weston).
'Family' in Australians: An Historical Dictionary (jointly with Patricia Grimshaw), Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987.
'Marriage, Fertility and Mortality', in Australians: Historical Statistics, Wray Vamplew (ed.), Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987 (First author with Lado Ruzicka and Patricia Pyne).
'Conflicting messages: marriage in the 1980s', Australian Journal of Sex, Marriage and the Family, 8 (2), May 1987.
'Has a discipline come of age when it can boast of several competing dictionaries?', Population Index, 54 (2), Summer 1988 (First author with D. Whithear).
'Ex-nuptial births and unmarried cohabitation in Australia', Journal of the Australian Population Association, 5 (2), November 1988 (Second author with Siew-Ean Khoo).
McDonald, P. ‘Australia’s changing population - trends and implications’,
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, book review, 24 (2): 320-322, 1988.
'The impact of changes in birth spacing on age at last birth: a response to Anderton' (jointly with John Knodel), Demography, Vol. 26 (3), August 1989.
'Who uses marriage counselling', in Ilene Wolcott and Helen Glezer, Marriage Counselling in Australia: An Evaluation, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1989.
`Migrant family structure', in Kathleen Funder ed., Images of Australian Families, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1991.
The changing role of the family as a social institution in development in the Asia-Pacific region (Second author with Grace Soriano), United Nations, New York, 1991.
‘Having children: Decision-making process and societal pressures’, in K. Sheppard, J. Boublik and J. Funder eds. Stress and Reproduction, New York: Raven Press, 1992.
McDonald, P. (1992). "The 1980s: Social and Economic Change Affecting Families". In Jagtenberg, Tom; D'Alton, Phillip. Four Dimensional Social Space. Pymble, Sydney: Harper Educational Publishers. pp.126–128. ISBN0063121271.|access-date= requires |url= (help)
'Fertility Transition Hypotheses', in Richard Leete and Iqbal Alam eds., The Revolution in Asian Fertility: Dimensions, Causes and Implications, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1993, pp. 1-14.
'Convergence or Compromise in Historical Family Change?', in Elza Berquo and Peter Xenos eds., Family Systems and Cultural Change, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1993.
'Principles, practice and problems in property and income transfers', in Kathleen Funder, Margaret Harrison, Ruth Weston, Settling Down: Pathways of Parents After Divorce, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1993, (with Kathleen Funder and Margaret Harrison).
'Household and family trends in Australia', special article, The Australian Year Book, 1994, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
'Family Trends and Structure in Australia', Australian Family Briefings No.3, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1993.
'In search of poverty and affluence: an investigation of families living in two Melbourne municipalities', AIFS Working Paper No.10, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1993 (First author with H. Brownlee).
'Marriage, family formation, living arrangements, and household composition in low fertility countries', Papers of the International Seminar on Consequences of Replacement and Below Replacement Level Fertility in East and South-East Asia, Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, Korea, 1994.
'Legislation to secure financial support for aged parents by their adult children', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol.14, No.1/2, 1994 (First author with Grace Soriano).
'Families in developing countries: idealised morality and theories of family change', in Cho, L. and Yada, M. (eds), Tradition and Change in the Asian Family,East-WestCenter, Honolulu, 1994: 19-27.
'Australian living standards: the next decade', in Disney, J. and Briggs, L., Social Security Policy: Issues and Options, Department of Social Security, Canberra, 1994 (First author with H. Brownlee).
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1995
Books and Monographs
McDonald, P.
Families in Australia: A Socio-demographic Perspective, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 1995.
McDonald, P.
Places for everyone; Social equity in Australian cities and regions, Australian Urban and Regional Development Review, Canberra, 1995.
Khoo, S-E., McDonald, P., Giorgias, D. and Birrell, R.
Outcomes for Second Generation Australians, Australian Centre for Population Research, Canberra, also published as Report to the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, 2002.
Khoo, S-E. and McDonald, P. (eds.)
The Transformation of Australia’s Population, 1970-2030. UNSW Press, Sydney, 302+xi. 2003.
Reich, J., Hearps, J., Cohn, A., Temple, J. and McDonald, P.
Defence Personnel Environment Scan 2025. , Australian Government: Department of Defence, Canberra, 316+xxxii, 2006.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M. J., McDonald, P. and Hosseini-Chavoshi, M.2009.The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction.Dordrecht: Springer.
Markus, A., Jupp, J. and McDonald, P. 2009. Australia’s Immigration Revolution. Melbourne: Allen and Unwin.
Book Chapters and Refereed Reports
McDonald, P.
Creating jobs: Where they are needed, where they count, Discussion Paper #3, Australian Urban and Regional Development Review, Melbourne, 1995.
McDonald, P.
‘Australian Families: Values and Behaviour’, in Hartley, R. (ed), Families and Cultural Diversity in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
Funder, K., McDonald, P. and Glezer, H.
‘Marriages and families in Australia’, in K. Altergott (ed), The International Handbook on Marriages and Families, Greenwood Press, New York, 1995
McDonald, P. and Moyle, H.
‘Household reference zones in cities’, in Newton, P. and Bell, M. (eds.), Population Shift: Mobility and Change in Australia, AGPS, Canberra, 1996.
McDonald, P.
‘The family’, entry in The Australian Encyclopaedia, Australian Geographic, Sydney, 1996.
McDonald, P. et al (nine others from the Australian Institute of Family Studies)
‘Family studies in Australia’ in M. Sussman and R. Hanks, Intercultural Variation in Family Research and Theory: Implications for Cross-National Studies, published as Marriage and Family Review, 22(3/4), 1996.
McDonald, P. and Moyle, H.
‘Self-fulfillment of children’, in A. Ben-Arieh and H. Wintersberger, Monitoring and Measuring the State of Children - Beyond Survival, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. 1997.
McDonald, P.
‘Young people in Australia today: a socio-demographic perspective’, in R. Thanki and C. Thomson, Mortgaging Our Future? Families and Young People in Australia, SPRC Reports and Proceedings, No. 129, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1997.
McDonald, P
‘Older people and their families: issues for policy’. in A. Borowski, S. Encel and E. Ozanne (eds.). Ageing and Social Policy in Australia. Melbourne: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1997.
McDonald, P.
‘Families and welfare services’ in H. Moyle and D. Gibson (eds). Australia’s Welfare 1997. Canberra: AGPS. 1997.
McDonald, P.
‘Demography’, entry in G. Davison, J. Hirst and S. McIntyre (eds), The Oxford Companion of Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. 1998
Hull, T. and McDonald, P.
‘Demography’, in Challenges for the Social Sciences and Australia, Volume 1, Report of the Australian Academy of Social Science to the Australian Research Council, National Board of Employment, education and Training, Canberra. 1998.
McDonald, P.
‘New relationships and new families: implications for statistical definitions’, in Families at the End of the 20th century, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999.
McDonald, P. and Kippen, R.
‘Ageing: the social and demographic dimensions’, Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia’s Population, Canberra: Productivity Commission and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, 1999, 47-70.
McDonald, P. and Kippen, R.
Population futures for Australia: the policy alternatives, Parliamentary Library Seminar Series, Research Paper 5, 1999, Canberra: Australian Parliamentary Library. 1999.
McDonald, P. and Kippen, R.
The impact of immigration on the ageing of Australia’s population, DIMA Discussion Paper, Canberra: Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. 1999.
King, A. and McDonald, P.
Private transfers across Australian generations, NATSEM Discussion Paper Series, No. 41, 1999.
McDonald, P.
‘Immigration and the Australian population’, in J. Jupp (ed.), Immigration and Multiculturalism: Global Perspectives, Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Melbourne, 1999, 58-68.
McDonald, P.
Community Profiles 1996 Census: Greece Born, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Community Profiles 1996 Census: Italy Born, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Community Profiles 1996 Census: Lebanon Born, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Community Profiles 1996 Census: Malta Born, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 2000.
Khoo, S-E. and McDonald, P.
Category Jumping: Trends, Demographic Impact and Measurement Issues, Report prepared for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, 2000.
Percival, R,. Harding, A. and McDonald, P.
Estimates of the Costs of Children in Australian Families, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, 2000.
Review of A Study of Town Life: Living Standards in the City of York 100 Years after Rowntree, Urban Policy and Research, 18(3): 405-408, 2000.
McDonald, P.
‘Below replacement fertility in Australia: trends and implications’, in Korea Institute for Social Affairs and United Nations Population Fund, Low Fertility and Policy Responses to Issues of Ageing and Welfare, Seoul: KIHASA, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Social and Demographic Trends Relating to the Future Demand for Child Care, Commonwealth Child Care Advisory Council, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Fertility, Family Type and Labour Force Participation: Socio-Economic Differences in Australia, Commonwealth Child Care Advisory Council, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra, 2000.
McDonald, P.
Social reproduction: the need for a new social contract in L. Hancock, B. Howe and A. O’Donnell (eds.), Reshaping Australian Social Policy: Changes in Work, Welfare and Families, Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Melbourne, 33-36, 2000.
Caldwell, J., Caldwell, P. and McDonald, P.
‘Consequences of low fertility and policy responses: a global perspective’, in Korea Institute for Social Affairs and United Nations Population Fund, Low Fertility and Policy Responses to Issues of Ageing and Welfare, Seoul: KIHASA, 2000.
McDonaldP, Evans A, BaxterJ, and Gray E.
The Negotiating the Life Course Survey Experience, Negotiating the Life Course Discussion Paper Series NLCDP-001. Canberra, AustralianNationalUniversity, 2000.
McDonald, P. and Kippen, R.
The impact of immigration on the ageing of Australia’s population, in Siddique, M. (ed.), International Migration into the 21st Century, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 153-177, 2001.
McDonald, P. 2001. ‘Family change in the Asia-Pacific: An overview’. In Ariffin, J. and Louis, A. (eds.). Family Wellbeing: Learning from the Past for the Betterment of the Future. Kuala Lumpur: Institute Sultan Iskandar Publications, pp.1-12.
McDonald, P.
Australia’s population futures, in Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Migration: Benefiting Australia. Canberra: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. 2002.
Dowrick, S. and McDonald, P. 2002. Comments on Intergenerational Report, 2002-03. Demography Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, 12 pp.
McDonald, P. and Kippen, R.
The Impact of Long-Term Visitors on Projections of Australia’s Population. Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, May 2002, 27pp.
Gray, E. and McDonald, P.
The relationship between personal, family, resource and work factors and maternal employment in Australia. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Labour Market and Social Policy-Occasional Papers No. 62, OECD, Paris, 2002., 37pp.