Lisa Denny: Workforce Demographer
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2020
  • Presentation, Tasmania's structural challenges: pre-COVID 19 and post COVID-19, Tasmanian Parliamentary Labor Party, November 2020
  • Submission to the Premier's Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council, Expansion of the Allied Health Workforce, October 2020
  • Opinion Piece, What does it mean to be literate?, The Mercury, 8 September 2020
  • Opinion Piece, Primary schoolers need career advice to set themselves up for the future, August 2020 
  • Presentation: The Future of Work in Tasmania; pre-COVID19 and post-COVID19, presentation to the Tasmanian Leaders Program, 27 July, 2020 
  • Opinion Piece: Moving tourism forward with the community, The Mercury, 3 July, 2020 with Professor Can Seng Ooi and Dr Becky Shelley
  • Submission to the Premier's Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council, Structural Challenges in Tasmania, June 2020
  • Opinion Piece: Cleaning up Tassie's workforce, The Mercury, 29 June 2020
  • Opinion Piece: Rebuild crumbling towns and harness power of ageing population, The Mercury, 2020
  • Opinion Piece: Coronavirus pandemic exposes cracks in nation's economy, The Mercury, 11 May 2020
  • Opinion Piece: The white economy is our future, The Mercury, 14 April, 2020
  • Opinion Piece: Long road to recovery must start now, The Mercury, 26 March, 2020
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From mid-2017 to mid-2020, Lisa was a Research Fellow with the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania, see her research here
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​2017
  • Opinion Piece: Jobs of the future coming ready or not, The Mercury, 30 September, 2017

2016
  • Opinion piece: Breed success with population, The Mercury, 15 December, 2016
  • Opinion piece: Learning to deliver opportunity, The Mercury, 8 October, 2016
  • Presentation: Identifying the casual factors of the components of population change to population ageing at a sub-national level using Tasmania, Australia as a case study, International Young Researchers Conference: the impacts and challenges of demographic change, Paris, France
  • Online article: Young people missing out on jobs to older workers and migrants: study, The Conversation, co-authored with Brendan Churchill
  • Journal article: Youth employment in Australia: A comparative analysis of labour force participation by age group, Journal of Applied Youth Studies, March 2016, co-authored with Brendan Churchill 
  • Opinion piece: Tourism boom brings chance to boost population, The Mercury, 15 March, 2016.

2015
  • Journal article: Measuring Mendicancy: Identifying future capacity for economic sustainability by developing a measure of government dependency,  Australian Economic Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 pp 273-287
  • Presentation: Exploring social mobility demographically and spatially, International Conference on Population Geographies, July 2015
  • Presentation: Your Future Tasmania Workshop, University of Tasmania, June 2015
  • Presentation: Tasmania's Productivity Profile, Tasmanian Skills and Workforce Development Conference, May 2015
  • Opinion piece: We're not the only ones getting old, The Mercury, Saturday, 11 April, 2015
  • Background Issues Paper: Tasmania's Population Challenge: 650,000 by 2050, Department of State Growth, March 2015
  • Online article: The IGR focuses on the old, when the future belongs to the young, The Conversation, 6 March, 2015, co-authored with Brendan Churchill

2014
  • Presentation: Measuring Mendicancy: developing a measure of government dependence to identify the capacity for economic sustainability, Australian Population Association Biennial Conference
  • Presentation: Generation Thank God, You’re Here: introducing the next generation and their role in future proofing the nation from the challenges of population ageing, Australian Population Association Biennial Conference (co-presented with Mr Brendan Churchill)
  • Presentation: Population ageing at a sub-national level: a case study of why Tasmania is ageing for different reasons than Australia, Australian Population Association Biennial Conference
  • Online article: Baby Boomers - be nice to your grandkids, they may save Australia, the Conversation, 24 October, 2014 
  • Presentation: Rethinking Tasmania's Population, Relationships Australia Tasmania State Conference, October 2014
  • Presentation: Tasmania's population: a snapshot, Tasmanian Leaders Program, October 2014
  • Co-facilitator, presenter and participant: Skills Tasmania Think Tank on Workforce Development, October 2014
  • Journal Article: Thank god you're here: The coming generation and their role in future-proofing Australia from the challenges of population ageing, Australian Journal of Social Issues, September 2014 (co-authored with Mr Brendan Churchill and Dr Natalie Jackson)
  • Opinion Piece: Deep cuts not worth all the cost, The Mercury, 30 September, 2014
  • Speech: The Inglis Clark Denison Debate, Tasmania's Population: on the cusp, 19 August 2014 
  • Presentation: Engaging Tasmania's ageing workforce, Women Chiefs of Enterprise International, Tasmania, 7 July 2014
  • Opinion piece: Sunday Soapbox: Love Mofo, but anyone seen our old mojo?, The Sunday Tasmanian, 29 June, 2014
  • Opinion piece: Sunday Soapbox: Sharing the caring will help dads and mums, The Sunday Tasmanian, 11 May 2014
  • News article: Demography Missing from planning, The Examiner, 11 April 2014
  • News article: Demographers dispel myths about Tasmania's retirement village image, ABC News, 10 April, 2014
  • Presentation: Tasmania's Population: some misconceptions, APA Forum, April 2014
  • Opinion piece: Tasmania is Turning Grey, New Matilda, 11 April, 2014
  • News article: Population Growth Plans, 730 Tasmania, 29 March 2014
  • Media report: Jobs of the future, 730 report, ABC, Tasmania, 7 March 2014
  • Opinion piece: Tassie facing an age-old dilemma, The Mercury, 8 February 2014

2013​
  • News article: Our Shrinking State: Long-term decline in population spells trouble for Tassie, Sunday Tasmanian, 29 December 2013
  • News article: Demographer warns Tasmania needs more people able and willing to start families, ABC, 12 December 2013
  • Key note address: Understanding Tasmania's population and the impact on the labour market, AHRI Leadership Conference, 1 November 2013
  • Key note address: Tasmania's ageing workforce, WorkSafe Month, 4 October 2013
  • News article: The hardest working city in Australia, news.com.au, 15 August 2013
  • News article: Tassie Prime for a Rebrand - The Sunday Tasmanian, 4 August 2013
  • Presentation: "A Critique of the 3Ps" - cepar International Conference on Population Ageing, Sydney, July 2013
  • Key note address: Tasmania in Transition, Skills Tasmania Conference, May 2013
  • Presentation: Engaging Older Workforces, Better Work Tasmania, March 2013
  • News article: "Libs plan 'feasible", The Sunday Examiner, 10 March 2013
  • News article:  "On the Move", 730 Report, Tasmania, ABC, 8 March 2013
  • Online article: The aspirational Tasmanian - ready for the right kind of change, The Conversation, 13 February, 2013
  • Online article: Tackling the Challenges of Tasmania's ageing population, The Conversation, 25 January 2013 

2012
  • News article: "Women in the Workforce", 730 Report Tasmania, ABC, 2 November 2012 

2011
  • Presentation: Population Ageing, Tasmania and the Labour Market, AHRI Special Area Forum
  • Presentation: Population Ageing, Tasmania and the Labour Market, Transend Senior Management Group
  • Presentation: Population Ageing, Tasmania and the Labour Market, Family Based Care

2010
  • Presentation: Population Ageing, Tasmania and the Labour Market, Tasmanian Council of Professional Services
  • Master of Ceremonies, Skills Tasmania Conference

2009
  • Branding Workshop facilitation, Wine Tasmania 
  • Presentation: Skill Shortages in Tasmania, UTAS Faculty of Business Advisory Group

2008
  • Key note address: Heads of Student Administration (HOSA) National Conference 

​2007
  • News article: Demographic Change (transcript), Stateline Tasmania, ABC, June 2007
  • Key note address: Contact Centre State Conference
  • Key note address:, Skilling Tasmania Conference
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