Dr Lisa Denny - Workforce Demographer
Welcome to my website.
Here you will find information about the work that I do as well as access many publicly available research reports, presentations, submissions and Opinion Pieces on all things related to the workforce, particularly in Tasmania.
Please contact me to discuss your needs either by email, via LinkedIn or Twitter/X or follow my blog.
Here you will find information about the work that I do as well as access many publicly available research reports, presentations, submissions and Opinion Pieces on all things related to the workforce, particularly in Tasmania.
Please contact me to discuss your needs either by email, via LinkedIn or Twitter/X or follow my blog.
What do I do?
I am a Workforce Demographer; a research-led problem solver of complex social and economic issues using a systems thinking lens.
What does that mean?
As a research-led problem solver, I work with clients to help define problems and then articulate why they are a problem. Then I work with them to develop informed strategic policy advice and solutions to these problems. These problems are usually related to education and training, the workforce, the economy, population change, socio-economic demography and/or inequity - gender or age-related, and their interconnectedness within a system or systems.
Usually, I identify, define and explain problems using data - quantitative and qualitative - from various credible sources. However, my work only starts with data analysis, the richness of my work comes from the interpretation of that data in the context of the problem, underpinned by theory and policy analysis, and the objectives of the client.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them" - Albert Einstein
My credentials
I am a perpetual student, I am continually investing in my own learning and knowledge acquisition. Following my schooling, I completed a Bachelor of Commerce in economics, finance and marketing and a few years later went on to complete a Graduate Diploma of Education (I am a qualified, but non-practicing, secondary teacher of economics and business studies).
After working for ten years in a range of government roles in local government, trade, investment attraction, research and brand, I decided to pursue further education in demography and completed a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours in social ecology) and then a PhD in which I investigated Skill Utilisation in Australia in response to the proposed 3Ps solution to the implications of population ageing.
As I have a son with severe and complex communication and learning disabilities, I have also been pursuing further education in the science of learning. In 2023, I completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Science of Learning) following the completion of the Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) course and the Orton Gillingham Dyslexia training course.
I am currently pursuing further education and training in systems thinking.
Positions and memberships
More about me
I am Tasmanian born and bred. I'm older than the median age of the population. I'm a long time advocate for improving the life outcomes of all Tasmanians. I'm a gardener (of the fruit and vegetable variety), cook, walker, ocean lover, dog and chook person and a mum, wife, daughter and sister, step-mum (although I call it 'second mum') and sister-in-law. I also like writing haiku (a form of Japanese poetry) to help me express how I am feeling in the good times and bad (very therapeutic).
I am a Workforce Demographer; a research-led problem solver of complex social and economic issues using a systems thinking lens.
What does that mean?
As a research-led problem solver, I work with clients to help define problems and then articulate why they are a problem. Then I work with them to develop informed strategic policy advice and solutions to these problems. These problems are usually related to education and training, the workforce, the economy, population change, socio-economic demography and/or inequity - gender or age-related, and their interconnectedness within a system or systems.
Usually, I identify, define and explain problems using data - quantitative and qualitative - from various credible sources. However, my work only starts with data analysis, the richness of my work comes from the interpretation of that data in the context of the problem, underpinned by theory and policy analysis, and the objectives of the client.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them" - Albert Einstein
My credentials
I am a perpetual student, I am continually investing in my own learning and knowledge acquisition. Following my schooling, I completed a Bachelor of Commerce in economics, finance and marketing and a few years later went on to complete a Graduate Diploma of Education (I am a qualified, but non-practicing, secondary teacher of economics and business studies).
After working for ten years in a range of government roles in local government, trade, investment attraction, research and brand, I decided to pursue further education in demography and completed a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours in social ecology) and then a PhD in which I investigated Skill Utilisation in Australia in response to the proposed 3Ps solution to the implications of population ageing.
As I have a son with severe and complex communication and learning disabilities, I have also been pursuing further education in the science of learning. In 2023, I completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Science of Learning) following the completion of the Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) course and the Orton Gillingham Dyslexia training course.
I am currently pursuing further education and training in systems thinking.
Positions and memberships
- Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
- Founding member of the Tasmanian 100% Literacy Alliance
- Member of the Expert Panel for the Centre of Population, Australian Treasury
- Member of the Lifting Literacy Outcomes Monitoring Group
- Board Director, Tasmanian Council of Social Service (TasCOSS)
- Member of the TCCI Participation Taskforce
- Member of the Australian Population Association
More about me
I am Tasmanian born and bred. I'm older than the median age of the population. I'm a long time advocate for improving the life outcomes of all Tasmanians. I'm a gardener (of the fruit and vegetable variety), cook, walker, ocean lover, dog and chook person and a mum, wife, daughter and sister, step-mum (although I call it 'second mum') and sister-in-law. I also like writing haiku (a form of Japanese poetry) to help me express how I am feeling in the good times and bad (very therapeutic).
work demographer
fiercely Tasmanian
trying to do good
#haiku
fiercely Tasmanian
trying to do good
#haiku