The Life Course Centre is committed to understanding the experiences of Australians facing disadvantage and to better equipping them to overcome them. Our commitment is founded in an innovative approach to identifying important life course influences, events and transitions, and developing strategic interventions to improve life opportunities and outcomes. Life course theory is a framework to understand how life pathways are shaped by interacting factors at key life stages such as early childhood, adolescence, adulthood and parenthood. It allows investigation of how life trajectories are influenced by factors such as inherited disadvantage and the institutional systems governing how we live and work. The Life Course Centre is the first to apply life course theory to Australia’s growing problem of disadvantage.

Website

https://lifecoursecentre.org.au/

Organisation type

Australian Research Centre of Excellence – Headquarters

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

Long Pocket Precinct, Building (1021) 80 Meiers Road  Indooroopilly  Queensland  4068 Australia

Strengths and capabilities

• Longitudinal research design, methods and analysis
• Building data assets for social policy
• Building community partnerships
• Building government partnerships
• Life course theory and research
• Advanced social science methods
• Agent based modelling techniques
• Evaluation design and methods
• Co-design approaches
• Interdisciplinary research

Achievements of the centre

• Life Course Data Initiative Australian Government Life Course Data Initiative - Life Course Centre
• Global collaborative project with the World Health Organisation on Healthy Ageing over the Life Course (underway)
• Several other recent awards for researchers noted at News - Life Course Centre

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Social sciences