James O''Donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 235003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James O''Donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Donnell |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELL J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3093-4141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Do people stay ‘hunkered down’ in diverse spaces? A longitudinal analysis of positive and negative social contact and the development of trust in linguistically diverse areas
Towards an information landscape fit for environmental policy in the built environment
The information landscape in the built environment is currently unfit to support global environmental policy ambition. This research proposes a holistic requirements framework to support reform. An inductive Design Science Research methodology is used to develop a decision-support system prototype representative of the envisaged information landscape, and to evaluate this via thematic analysis of stakeholder focus groups. Stakeholders assess the …
The Demographic and Social Construction of Super‐Diversity
The concept of super‐diversity posits that waves of immigration over several decades expand population heterogeneity on multiple social, demographic, economic, political, and legal dimensions, creating a mosaic of social and cultural life in immigrant‐rich spaces. This concept raises important demographic and sociological questions as to how this has happened, particularly in view of the long history of assimilation and integration theories, in w…
Changes in International Migration to and from Australia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down international migration around the world, with many countries closing their international borders for a prolonged period of time. Although there are studies emerging that analyse the impact of COVID-19 and border control measures, more detailed migration flow data have been largely absent. In this research note, we examine changes to the patterns of immigration and emigration in Australia during the pandemic to f…
Education shapes episodic memory measurement via test specifications: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
These findings suggest that education strongly influences episodic memory assessment, as test specifications-word-list complexity and test form-interact with participants' education and shape performance gaps between higher- and lower-educated groups. For equating techniques in longitudinal studies, frequency estimation suits waves with similar complexity, whereas equipercentile equating better addresses substantial complexity differences, thereb…
The contributions of immigration to demographic change across cities and regions in Australia
In the context of low fertility and population ageing, many countries look to immigration to address labour shortages and reduce the effects of population decline. While the short-term effects of immigration are relatively well understood, the long-term demographic consequences of high and sustained immigration are still undetermined. In this paper, we highlight the major contributions that immigration has made to population change across 11 geog…
Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
Demographic studies on healthy life expectancy often rely on the Markov assumption, which fails to consider the duration of exposure to risk. To address this limitation, models like the duration-dependent multistate life table (DDMSLT) have been developed. However, these models cannot be directly applied to left-censored survey data, as they require knowledge of the time spent in the initial state, which is rarely known because of survey design. …
Neighborhood Trust, Cohesion, and Diversity: How Demographic Patterns and Processes Shape Their Relationships
Compelling evidence from around the world suggests that ethnic diversity is detrimental to neighborhood trust and cohesion. Much of this evidence derives from empirical associations found with static indicators of diversity, measuring the mix of ethnic groups at a single point in time, and controlling for a varied mix of individual and community-level covariates. Less attention though has sought to understand how dynamic processes of migration an…
Impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities
Ethnically diverse communities are potentially exposed to multiple and compounding impacts of COVID‐19, owing to social and cultural interactions, household crowding, employment in exposed occupations and other socioeconomic conditions. In this study, we quantify and analyse these impacts for local councils in Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne across five outcomes: infections, excess deaths, the speed of vaccination, unemployme…
The longitudinal effect of Covid-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations
The ethnic composition and population dynamics of local communities in Australia
Superdiversity has become a popular concept to describe the cumulative impact of successive waves of migration in high immigration nations. How superdiversity impacts on local communities is less well understood. In this study, detailed ethnicity data are collected and harmonised for local communities from the Australian 2006, 2011 and 2016 Censuses. Local communities are organised into categories using an existing typology. The ethnic, economic …
Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways
This article presents a multistate demographic approach for analyzing the longitudinal dynamics of housing and homelessness. The approach is applied to a sample of highly disadvantaged individuals in Australia to assess whether private housing markets and interpersonal support networks provide stable housing trajectories vis-à-vis public and community (social) housing. Discrete-time competing risk survival models are specified to estimate the pro…
The relationship between housing and children’s socio-emotional and behavioral development in Australia
Estimating annual rates of homelessness
Homelessness is an important though exceedingly difficult phenomenon to measure and understand. The most common sources of data measure homelessness only on a given night or set of consecutive nights, contact with homelessness service providers, or past ho
Identification change and its effect on projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia
Assessing Adult Adhd Using a Self-Report Symptom Checklist
The self-ratings of DSM-IV ADHD symptoms by adults reporting a previous ADHD diagnosis were contrasted with ratings by controls matched for age and sex. Adults previously diagnosed with ADHD endorsed significantly more symptoms of inattention and of hyperactivity–impulsivity. Specifically, 13 of the 18 DSM-IV ADHD symptoms were endorsed more frequently by the group previously diagnosed with ADHD than by the control group. Predictive power analysi…
Assessing Adult ADHD Using a Self-Report Symptom Checklist
The self-ratings of DSM-IV ADHD symptoms by adults reporting a previous ADHD diagnosis were contrasted with ratings by controls matched for age and sex. Adults previously diagnosed with ADHD endorsed significantly more symptoms of inattention and of hyperactivity-impulsivity. Specifically, 13 of the 18 DSM-IV ADHD symptoms were endorsed more frequently by the group previously diagnosed with ADHD than by the control group. Predictive power analysi…
Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity
Preface by Henry Giroux Rearticulating a Racial Identity: Creating Oppositional Spaces to Fight for Equality and Social Justice by Christine Clark and James O'Donnell Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia by Peter McLaren Lighting Candles in the Dark: One Black Woman's Response to White Anti-Racist Narratives by Beverly Deniel Tatum Subverting Racism from Within: Linking White Identity to Activism by Bec…
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America. Steven Fraser, ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995. 216 pp
Albania’s Sigurimi: The Ultimate Agents of Social Control
Albania’s extreme isolation under communism allowed the secret police total control over Albanian society because it produced extensive dossiers on each citizen. Now debate rages over the consequences of opening these files
Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Learning-Disabled, Head-Injured, and Nondisabled Young Adults
Using a multi-trial, free-recall paradigm (Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test; Lezak, 1983), the acquisition and retention by learning disabled (LD) young adults with a Halstead Impairment Index less than or equal to 0.3 (low LD) or greater than or equal to 0.4 (high LD) was compared with that of nondisabled and head-injured (HI) young adults. Significant group differences, particularly during the last three acquisition trials, confirmed the effec…
Memory for Event Frequency as a Function of Depression, Age, Intentionality, and Level of Processing
In two experiments, we examined memory for event frequency among depressed and/or elderly subjects (depression was either naturally occurring or induced by the Velten technique). We also manipulated level of processing and instructional set to test the notion that memory for event frequency is relatively invariant across a variety of tasks. Results supported the proposal that memory for frequency is robust in the face of depression and old age. M…
Number conservation in children below age six: Its relationship to age, perceptual dimensions, and language comprehension
Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity
Preface by Henry Giroux Rearticulating a Racial Identity: Creating Oppositional Spaces to Fight for Equality and Social Justice by Christine Clark and James O'Donnell Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia by Peter McLaren Lighting Candles in the Dark: One Black Woman's Response to White Anti-Racist Narratives by Beverly Deniel Tatum Subverting Racism from Within: Linking White Identity to Activism by Bec…
The longitudinal effect of Covid-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations
The ethnic composition and population dynamics of local communities in Australia
Superdiversity has become a popular concept to describe the cumulative impact of successive waves of migration in high immigration nations. How superdiversity impacts on local communities is less well understood. In this study, detailed ethnicity data are collected and harmonised for local communities from the Australian 2006, 2011 and 2016 Censuses. Local communities are organised into categories using an existing typology. The ethnic, economic …
Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways
This article presents a multistate demographic approach for analyzing the longitudinal dynamics of housing and homelessness. The approach is applied to a sample of highly disadvantaged individuals in Australia to assess whether private housing markets and interpersonal support networks provide stable housing trajectories vis-à-vis public and community (social) housing. Discrete-time competing risk survival models are specified to estimate the pro…
Identification change and its effect on projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia
Changes in International Migration to and from Australia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down international migration around the world, with many countries closing their international borders for a prolonged period of time. Although there are studies emerging that analyse the impact of COVID-19 and border control measures, more detailed migration flow data have been largely absent. In this research note, we examine changes to the patterns of immigration and emigration in Australia during the pandemic to f…
Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
Demographic studies on healthy life expectancy often rely on the Markov assumption, which fails to consider the duration of exposure to risk. To address this limitation, models like the duration-dependent multistate life table (DDMSLT) have been developed. However, these models cannot be directly applied to left-censored survey data, as they require knowledge of the time spent in the initial state, which is rarely known because of survey design. …
Neighborhood Trust, Cohesion, and Diversity: How Demographic Patterns and Processes Shape Their Relationships
Compelling evidence from around the world suggests that ethnic diversity is detrimental to neighborhood trust and cohesion. Much of this evidence derives from empirical associations found with static indicators of diversity, measuring the mix of ethnic groups at a single point in time, and controlling for a varied mix of individual and community-level covariates. Less attention though has sought to understand how dynamic processes of migration an…
Estimating annual rates of homelessness
Homelessness is an important though exceedingly difficult phenomenon to measure and understand. The most common sources of data measure homelessness only on a given night or set of consecutive nights, contact with homelessness service providers, or past ho
Number conservation in children below age six: Its relationship to age, perceptual dimensions, and language comprehension
Encoding and Retrieval Processes in Learning-Disabled, Head-Injured, and Nondisabled Young Adults
Using a multi-trial, free-recall paradigm (Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test; Lezak, 1983), the acquisition and retention by learning disabled (LD) young adults with a Halstead Impairment Index less than or equal to 0.3 (low LD) or greater than or equal to 0.4 (high LD) was compared with that of nondisabled and head-injured (HI) young adults. Significant group differences, particularly during the last three acquisition trials, confirmed the effec…
Memory for Event Frequency as a Function of Depression, Age, Intentionality, and Level of Processing
In two experiments, we examined memory for event frequency among depressed and/or elderly subjects (depression was either naturally occurring or induced by the Velten technique). We also manipulated level of processing and instructional set to test the notion that memory for event frequency is relatively invariant across a variety of tasks. Results supported the proposal that memory for frequency is robust in the face of depression and old age. M…
Albania’s Sigurimi: The Ultimate Agents of Social Control
Albania’s extreme isolation under communism allowed the secret police total control over Albanian society because it produced extensive dossiers on each citizen. Now debate rages over the consequences of opening these files
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America. Steven Fraser, ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995. 216 pp
Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity
Preface by Henry Giroux Rearticulating a Racial Identity: Creating Oppositional Spaces to Fight for Equality and Social Justice by Christine Clark and James O'Donnell Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia by Peter McLaren Lighting Candles in the Dark: One Black Woman's Response to White Anti-Racist Narratives by Beverly Deniel Tatum Subverting Racism from Within: Linking White Identity to Activism by Bec…
Assessing Adult Adhd Using a Self-Report Symptom Checklist
The self-ratings of DSM-IV ADHD symptoms by adults reporting a previous ADHD diagnosis were contrasted with ratings by controls matched for age and sex. Adults previously diagnosed with ADHD endorsed significantly more symptoms of inattention and of hyperactivity–impulsivity. Specifically, 13 of the 18 DSM-IV ADHD symptoms were endorsed more frequently by the group previously diagnosed with ADHD than by the control group. Predictive power analysi…
Assessing Adult ADHD Using a Self-Report Symptom Checklist
The self-ratings of DSM-IV ADHD symptoms by adults reporting a previous ADHD diagnosis were contrasted with ratings by controls matched for age and sex. Adults previously diagnosed with ADHD endorsed significantly more symptoms of inattention and of hyperactivity-impulsivity. Specifically, 13 of the 18 DSM-IV ADHD symptoms were endorsed more frequently by the group previously diagnosed with ADHD than by the control group. Predictive power analysi…
Identification change and its effect on projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia
The relationship between housing and children’s socio-emotional and behavioral development in Australia
Estimating annual rates of homelessness
Homelessness is an important though exceedingly difficult phenomenon to measure and understand. The most common sources of data measure homelessness only on a given night or set of consecutive nights, contact with homelessness service providers, or past ho
The ethnic composition and population dynamics of local communities in Australia
Superdiversity has become a popular concept to describe the cumulative impact of successive waves of migration in high immigration nations. How superdiversity impacts on local communities is less well understood. In this study, detailed ethnicity data are collected and harmonised for local communities from the Australian 2006, 2011 and 2016 Censuses. Local communities are organised into categories using an existing typology. The ethnic, economic …
Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways
This article presents a multistate demographic approach for analyzing the longitudinal dynamics of housing and homelessness. The approach is applied to a sample of highly disadvantaged individuals in Australia to assess whether private housing markets and interpersonal support networks provide stable housing trajectories vis-à-vis public and community (social) housing. Discrete-time competing risk survival models are specified to estimate the pro…
The longitudinal effect of Covid-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations
Impacts of the Covid‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities
Ethnically diverse communities are potentially exposed to multiple and compounding impacts of COVID‐19, owing to social and cultural interactions, household crowding, employment in exposed occupations and other socioeconomic conditions. In this study, we quantify and analyse these impacts for local councils in Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne across five outcomes: infections, excess deaths, the speed of vaccination, unemployme…
Modeling Disability-Free Life Expectancy With Duration Dependence: A Research Note on the Bias in the Markov Assumption
Demographic studies on healthy life expectancy often rely on the Markov assumption, which fails to consider the duration of exposure to risk. To address this limitation, models like the duration-dependent multistate life table (DDMSLT) have been developed. However, these models cannot be directly applied to left-censored survey data, as they require knowledge of the time spent in the initial state, which is rarely known because of survey design. …
Neighborhood Trust, Cohesion, and Diversity: How Demographic Patterns and Processes Shape Their Relationships
Compelling evidence from around the world suggests that ethnic diversity is detrimental to neighborhood trust and cohesion. Much of this evidence derives from empirical associations found with static indicators of diversity, measuring the mix of ethnic groups at a single point in time, and controlling for a varied mix of individual and community-level covariates. Less attention though has sought to understand how dynamic processes of migration an…
Changes in International Migration to and from Australia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down international migration around the world, with many countries closing their international borders for a prolonged period of time. Although there are studies emerging that analyse the impact of COVID-19 and border control measures, more detailed migration flow data have been largely absent. In this research note, we examine changes to the patterns of immigration and emigration in Australia during the pandemic to f…
Education shapes episodic memory measurement via test specifications: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
These findings suggest that education strongly influences episodic memory assessment, as test specifications-word-list complexity and test form-interact with participants' education and shape performance gaps between higher- and lower-educated groups. For equating techniques in longitudinal studies, frequency estimation suits waves with similar complexity, whereas equipercentile equating better addresses substantial complexity differences, thereb…
The contributions of immigration to demographic change across cities and regions in Australia
In the context of low fertility and population ageing, many countries look to immigration to address labour shortages and reduce the effects of population decline. While the short-term effects of immigration are relatively well understood, the long-term demographic consequences of high and sustained immigration are still undetermined. In this paper, we highlight the major contributions that immigration has made to population change across 11 geog…
Do people stay ‘hunkered down’ in diverse spaces? A longitudinal analysis of positive and negative social contact and the development of trust in linguistically diverse areas
Towards an information landscape fit for environmental policy in the built environment
The information landscape in the built environment is currently unfit to support global environmental policy ambition. This research proposes a holistic requirements framework to support reform. An inductive Design Science Research methodology is used to develop a decision-support system prototype representative of the envisaged information landscape, and to evaluate this via thematic analysis of stakeholder focus groups. Stakeholders assess the …
The Demographic and Social Construction of Super‐Diversity
The concept of super‐diversity posits that waves of immigration over several decades expand population heterogeneity on multiple social, demographic, economic, political, and legal dimensions, creating a mosaic of social and cultural life in immigrant‐rich spaces. This concept raises important demographic and sociological questions as to how this has happened, particularly in view of the long history of assimilation and integration theories, in w…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works) · Medicine (5 works)