Description: I am a sociologist with the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. I have been researching population growth for over thirty-five years, focusing on the politics of growth, and changes in the nature of social cohesion in countries of immigration, such as Australia. I am also interested in evolutionary psychology and multilevel selection, and…
I am a sociologist with the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. I have been researching population growth for over thirty-five years, focusing on the politics of growth, and changes in the nature of social cohesion in countries of immigration, such as Australia. I am also interested in evolutionary psychology and multilevel selection, and the implications of both for understanding human society.
Qualifications: Undergraduate degrees with majors in English, History and Sociology (from the University of Tasmania and Monash University, honours thesis on associations between changes in the availability of birth control and fertility, Diploma in Modern Greek (University of Salonika), and a PhD in Sociology from Monash, on Ideology and Immigration.
Employment: I taught Sociology at Monash from 1981 to 1986, and at Swinburne from 1987 to 2009 when I retired. I now have adjunct status with Swinburne. I am also a member of The Australian Population Research Institute .