Staff Profiles
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZAProf David Charnock
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- Role:
- Associate Professor
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- Department:
- Department of Social Sciences
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- Location:
- Bldg 209 - Humanities 311
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- Telephone:
- +61 8 9266 7749
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- Email:
- d.m.charnock@curtin.edu.au
David is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University of Technology. He holds degrees in economics and statistics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in the area of statistics from the University of Western Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, with the status of Chartered Statistician. Since the early 1990s he has researched and taught mainly in the areas of Australian electoral politics and social demography. Since 2001, he has been one of the two elected academic staff members on the Curtin University Council, the university’s governing body and is currently also Vice President of the Curtin University Staff Association.
David has made use of his quantitative background in a wide variety of social research and teaching applications. As well as Australian politics and social demography, he has extensive experience in teaching quantitative social research methods and has been Curtin’s representative on the Council of the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research for most of the period since the late 1970s. From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the panel of advisors for the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Australian Social Monitor from 1999 to 2004. In 2000 he was coordinator of the judging panel for the Borrie Prizes (awarded by the Australian Population Association).
David has many refereed publications, in areas ranging from theoretical statistics and statistical computing algorithms in the early part of his career through to an extensive list of publications in the last decade on various aspects of Australian electoral politics.
He has also served on numerous senior University committees, including the Academic Board and the University Research and Development Committee and served as Head of the Politics section in the School of Social Sciences for a total of four years
Research Interests
David’s research interests since the early 1990s have mainly focussed on aspects of Australian politics. Some have been in the area of voting behaviour (including a detailed study of the unsuccessful Republic Referendum of 1999, in addition to ones about federal elections); others have included a study of the impact of procedures for electoral redistributions (that resulted in a change to the corresponding legislation) and analyses of methods for predicting election outcomes from knowledge of overall voting swings. In 1999 he was awarded a grant under the Australian Research Council’s Large Grant Scheme for an extensive application of sophisticated multilevel modelling to the study of post-war federal voting, which was at the time the most extensive such study anywhere in the world.
Memberships
- Australian Population Association;
- Australasian Political Studies Association;
- Australian Statistical Society;
- Royal Statistical Society.
Publications
Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)
- Charnock, D. 2007. Plus ca change...? Institutional, Political and Social Influences on Local Spatial Variations in Australian Federal Voting. Australian Journal of Political Science 42: 593-609.
- Charnock, D. 2006. Children and Families: Relationships between Family Attitudes, Household Composition and Voting in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science 41(3): 371-384.
- Charnock, D. 2005. Post-War Changes in the Influence of Social Structure on Australian Voting: The 'Decline of Social Cleavages' Revisited. Australian Journal of Political Science 40: 343-355.
- Charnock, D. 2004. Postmaterialism and postmodernization in Australian electoral politics. Electoral Studies 23: 45-72.
- Charnock, D. 2003. Institutionally induced pendulum? An assessment of state-level influences on post-war Australian Federal voting. Australian Journal of Political Science 38(1): 119-132.
- Ellis, P, and Charnock, D. 2003. The structure of the Australian party system and its strategic consequences. Australian Journal of Political Science 38(3): 423-443.
Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)
- Charnock, D. 2008. Future directions in Australian party competition: some strategic considerations and speculations.. Australian Political Science Association 2008 Conference, 06/07/2008. Brisbane: School of Political Science & International Studies - University of Queensland.
- Charnock, D. 2007. The extent and causes of spatial variations at post-war Australian federal elections: a multilevel study of influences on voting behaviour. Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference, 24/09/2007. Monash University, Melbourne: APSA.
- Charnock, D. 2005. Links between family structure and voting in Australia. Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2005, 28/09/2005. Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand: Australasian Political Studies Association, Otago University.
- Charnock, D. 2004. Contextual effects and other influences: using multilevel modelling to study the extent and causes of spatial variations in post-war Australian federal voting. APSA Conference, 29/09/2004. Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide.