Rebecca Kippen

Dr Rebecca Kippen is Associate Professor of Demography in the School of Rural Health at Monash University, Bendigo. Dr Kippen has held research and teaching positions at the Australian National University (2002-10), and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne (2010-14), researching Australia's historical demography. Since the late 1990s, Dr Kippen's work on population futures has been highly influential in population debate both in Australia and internationally.

Dr Kippen lectures on research methods, demographic methods, and evidence-based clinical practice. Current research includes life-course analysis of Tasmanian convicts, Victorian Aborigines, and Victorian World War One veterans; health and mortality in regional areas; and work for the Hazelwood Mine Fire Health Study. Current and past funded projects are listed in the linked curriculum vitae below.

Related Links:

• Academia.edu
• Curriculum Vitae

Dr Kippen has supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students to successful thesis completion. Previously supervised topics include: 'Short- and long-term survival following in-hospital cardiac arrest', 'The employment of partnered mothers in Australia', 'Marriage patterns and fertility decline in nineteenth-century Tasmania', 'Indigenous fertility in the Northern Territory', 'Death registration and mortality trends in Australia', 'Mortality during the era of economic reform in Vietnam', 'Alcohol and the life course of Tasmanian female convicts', 'Changes in Australian age-specific sex ratios', 'The 1919 Spanish Influenza epidemic' and 'Institutional barriers to adequate, safe blood supplies in Indonesia'.

Dr Kippen is interested in supervising topics that involve demographic aspects of health and mortality in regional and rural areas, colonisation and Indigenous health, Australian historical demography, or population modelling and projections. She is happy to discuss potential research projects with current or future students.