Katie Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3695292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8705-1027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data
BACKGROUNDAccurate and precise estimates of the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) are an important summary of the health of a population.Full survival curves on the entire age range are additionally of interest to better understand the pattern of mortality in children under 5. Modern demographic methods for estimating a full mortality schedule for children have been developed for countries with good vital registration and reliable census data but per…
Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations
The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial. A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to use open access res…
Global Diversity in Higher Education Workforces
In this article we discuss the collection and nature of diversity data relating to origin (ethnicity, race, nationality, indigeneity), gender/sex and disability in higher education institutional workforces across 24 locations within Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Oceania. The research emerges from the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative project (n.d.), in which we analyse data relating to published research literature, its op…
Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty programmes. We study efficiency in semi-nomadic pastoralist households in Northern Senegal with lab-in-the-field games. We find that monogamous and polygynous families are equally productively inefficient overall. However, average contributions at the household level mask…
Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge
This paper explores the concept of ‘open’ knowledge – and the growing importance of digital literacies in supporting a transformation of universities into open knowledge institutions. In order to operate as successful open knowledge institutions, universities must do more than support the transmission of research outcomes from experts located within the university to external communities. They must engage in knowledge-making with communities. Thi…
Comparison of bibliographic data sources
Universities are increasingly evaluated on the basis of their outputs. These are often converted to simple and contested rankings with substantial implications for recruitment, income, and perceived prestige. Such evaluation usually relies on a single data source to define the set of outputs for a university. However, few studies have explored differences across data sources and their implications for metrics and rankings at the institutional sca…
Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters
This chapter examines the overall state of white male privilege in digital fan spaces including the rise of the Men's Rights Movement, the ongoing Gamergate phenomenon on Twitter, and the identity of men's rights activists as “red pillers” (a phrase borrowed from The Matrix film series). While many online fan spaces, such as Tumblr and Archive of Our Own are predominantly female spaces, the identity of fans, specifically science fiction or fantas…
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
Australian Indigenous higher education
The growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in Australian higher education from 1959 to the present is notable statistically, but below population parity. Distinct patterns in government policy-making and programme development, inconsistent funding and political influences, together with Indigenous representation during the last 50 years have shaped the higher education participation of Australia’s Indigenous populations. In…
Research with Indigenous Children and Young People in Schools
The involvement of young Indigenous people in research is a key emphasis in current approaches to both sociology of childhood and Indigenous research. This article discusses how the two research methodologies, both of which emphasise participation rights, intersect in research focusing on the participation and perspectives of Indigenous children and young people in education. The article examines ethical requirements of Indigenous and childhood r…
Abortion Bans Premised on Fetal Pain Capacity
Abortion bans premised on fetal pain capacity are this decade's “partial‐birth abortion”: a medically suspect anti‐choice initiative that can be politically difficult to oppose. No one is “pro–fetal pain.” But rhetorically, the concept of “fetal pain” works to conflate the capacity for pain with the experience of pain. If pain justified banning medical procedures, all surgery would be illegal. Pain is a routine side effect of medical practice. Wh…
Going on to uni? Access and participation in university for students from backgrounds of disadvantage
This article reports on a research project that investigated the aspirations of primary and secondary school students about access to, and participation in higher education. The research was undertaken at schools in low socio-economic status regional and rural areas of north-eastern New South Wales. The paper discusses the background to the research and the methodologies used. It reports findings on the impact and intersections of demographics, f…
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
Going on to uni? Access and participation in university for students from backgrounds of disadvantage
This article reports on a research project that investigated the aspirations of primary and secondary school students about access to, and participation in higher education. The research was undertaken at schools in low socio-economic status regional and rural areas of north-eastern New South Wales. The paper discusses the background to the research and the methodologies used. It reports findings on the impact and intersections of demographics, f…
Australian Indigenous higher education
The growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in Australian higher education from 1959 to the present is notable statistically, but below population parity. Distinct patterns in government policy-making and programme development, inconsistent funding and political influences, together with Indigenous representation during the last 50 years have shaped the higher education participation of Australia’s Indigenous populations. In…
Research with Indigenous Children and Young People in Schools
The involvement of young Indigenous people in research is a key emphasis in current approaches to both sociology of childhood and Indigenous research. This article discusses how the two research methodologies, both of which emphasise participation rights, intersect in research focusing on the participation and perspectives of Indigenous children and young people in education. The article examines ethical requirements of Indigenous and childhood r…
Abortion Bans Premised on Fetal Pain Capacity
Abortion bans premised on fetal pain capacity are this decade's “partial‐birth abortion”: a medically suspect anti‐choice initiative that can be politically difficult to oppose. No one is “pro–fetal pain.” But rhetorically, the concept of “fetal pain” works to conflate the capacity for pain with the experience of pain. If pain justified banning medical procedures, all surgery would be illegal. Pain is a routine side effect of medical practice. Wh…
Going on to uni? Access and participation in university for students from backgrounds of disadvantage
This article reports on a research project that investigated the aspirations of primary and secondary school students about access to, and participation in higher education. The research was undertaken at schools in low socio-economic status regional and rural areas of north-eastern New South Wales. The paper discusses the background to the research and the methodologies used. It reports findings on the impact and intersections of demographics, f…
Research with Indigenous Children and Young People in Schools
The involvement of young Indigenous people in research is a key emphasis in current approaches to both sociology of childhood and Indigenous research. This article discusses how the two research methodologies, both of which emphasise participation rights, intersect in research focusing on the participation and perspectives of Indigenous children and young people in education. The article examines ethical requirements of Indigenous and childhood r…
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges. For-profit colleges have seen sharp increases in enrollment in recent years despite alternatives such as public community colleges being much cheaper. We sent almost 9,000 fictitious resumes of young job applicants who recently completed their schooling to online job postings in six occupati…
Australian Indigenous higher education
The growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in Australian higher education from 1959 to the present is notable statistically, but below population parity. Distinct patterns in government policy-making and programme development, inconsistent funding and political influences, together with Indigenous representation during the last 50 years have shaped the higher education participation of Australia’s Indigenous populations. In…
Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters
This chapter examines the overall state of white male privilege in digital fan spaces including the rise of the Men's Rights Movement, the ongoing Gamergate phenomenon on Twitter, and the identity of men's rights activists as “red pillers” (a phrase borrowed from The Matrix film series). While many online fan spaces, such as Tumblr and Archive of Our Own are predominantly female spaces, the identity of fans, specifically science fiction or fantas…
Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge
This paper explores the concept of ‘open’ knowledge – and the growing importance of digital literacies in supporting a transformation of universities into open knowledge institutions. In order to operate as successful open knowledge institutions, universities must do more than support the transmission of research outcomes from experts located within the university to external communities. They must engage in knowledge-making with communities. Thi…
Comparison of bibliographic data sources
Universities are increasingly evaluated on the basis of their outputs. These are often converted to simple and contested rankings with substantial implications for recruitment, income, and perceived prestige. Such evaluation usually relies on a single data source to define the set of outputs for a university. However, few studies have explored differences across data sources and their implications for metrics and rankings at the institutional sca…
Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty programmes. We study efficiency in semi-nomadic pastoralist households in Northern Senegal with lab-in-the-field games. We find that monogamous and polygynous families are equally productively inefficient overall. However, average contributions at the household level mask…
Global Diversity in Higher Education Workforces
In this article we discuss the collection and nature of diversity data relating to origin (ethnicity, race, nationality, indigeneity), gender/sex and disability in higher education institutional workforces across 24 locations within Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Oceania. The research emerges from the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative project (n.d.), in which we analyse data relating to published research literature, its op…
Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations
The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial. A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to use open access res…
A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data
BACKGROUNDAccurate and precise estimates of the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) are an important summary of the health of a population.Full survival curves on the entire age range are additionally of interest to better understand the pattern of mortality in children under 5. Modern demographic methods for estimating a full mortality schedule for children have been developed for countries with good vital registration and reliable census data but per…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Law (3 works)