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National Centre Epidemiology & Population Health and the School of Demography · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences / ANU Joint Colleges of Science
In order to understand societal change, one needs to examine the mix of location-specific contexts that occur across space. This course focuses on local population change and its interrelation with health and wellbeing by exploring the theory, tools and analytical frameworks for dealing with spatial population and health data. Students will investigate strategies for overcoming the additional complexity of working and mapping spatial population and health data using geographic information systems software. The course will cover topics such as demographic and health uses of spatial data, sources of geospatial data, managing and mapping spatial data in geographic information systems, spatial autocorrelation and scale and spatial statistics.
Short written assignment, 1500 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2
10-minute research essay presentation and participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Research essay, 4500 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of seminars over 12 weeks; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading, and writing.
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