Events for 27 February, 2020

Designing Closed Questions for Surveys
27 Feb

Designing Closed Questions for Surveys

This interactive tutorial will provide an introduction to theoretical and practical issues encountered during design of survey questions
India as a rising power: Opportunities and constraints in the 21st Century
27 Feb

India as a rising power: Opportunities and constraints in the 21st Century

In its 71-year existence as an independent state, India has achieved much in fulfilling the dreams of its leaders in obtaining a higher global status, but the quest is still unfinished in terms of achieving a great power status. Professor T.V Paul will address why Indian elite and many in the public believe that the country has a destiny to rise as a global power. While looking a what the future holds for India's status elevation.
Perspectives:Asia | Restraining Great Powers
27 Feb

Perspectives:Asia | Restraining Great Powers

T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science at McGill University will discuss how balance of power politics is evolving and what the implications are of soft balancing for the rise of new great powers and the international order, especially concerning cooperation and conflict in the 21st Century.
2020 MHIQ Lecture Series - Mackenzie's Mission: Australia-wide genomic precision medicine
27 Feb

2020 MHIQ Lecture Series - Mackenzie's Mission: Australia-wide genomic precision medicine

2020 MHIQ Lecture Series - Professor Nigel Laing AO explains that next generation sequencing technologies make reproductive carrier screening for hundreds of conditions affordable. Mackenzie's Mission is a $20m Medical Research Future Fund project to develop, test and evaluate a reproductive carrier screening program that could be implemented and made available free to any Australian couple that wanted to use carrier screening.
Public: Rae Cooper
25 Feb

Public: Rae Cooper

Through a series of mixed media and ready-made artefacts, Rae Cooper contemplates the conflict between reality and manufactured truth.