Rate My Professor Aude Bernard

Associate Professor Aude Bernard is a demographer and population geographer at the Queensland Centre for Population Research in the School of the Environment at the University of Queensland. She earned a PhD from the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at the University of Queensland in 2014, with a thesis titled "Migration Age Patterns and Life-Course Transitions: A Cross-National Comparison," and a Master's degree by coursework from Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on internal migration processes and their consequences for individuals, regions, and nations. Contributions to formal demography include developing measurement and estimation techniques for large-scale international comparisons of migration levels, patterns, and selectivity. From a life-course perspective, her theoretical work encompasses the concept of migration capital and the intergenerational transmission of migration. She leads a group of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows collaborating with international organisations, federal and state government departments on methodological and applied issues related to internal migration.

Aude Bernard's current projects include the internal migration and regional retention of immigrants, forecasting internal migration, the long-term consequences of childhood migration, and the impact of climate change on internal migration. She is Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, a Linkage Project partnering with the University of Melbourne, University of New England, Shanghai University, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and Treasury's Centre for Population, as well as an ARC Future Fellowship from 2026 to 2031 entitled "Enabling evidence-based migration policy for the 21st century." She previously held an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from 2016 to 2020. Key publications include her book "Internal Migration as a Life-Course Trajectory: Concepts, Methods and Empirical Applications" (Springer, 2022) and co-edited volume "Internal Migration in the Countries of Asia: A Cross-National Comparison" (Springer, 2020), along with chapters on comparative measures of internal migration and global trends. Bernard co-edits the Journal of Population Research, co-chairs the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration, and serves on the Commonwealth Treasury's experts panel on population.