Staff, Academic

Bachelor of Science - South-west China Normal University, 1985

Master of Science - South-west China Normal University, 1991

PhD - The University of Adelaide, 2004

Dr Yan Tan is a human geographer and demographer. She joined NILS in April 2004. In 2004, she received the prestigious John Lewis Silver Medal, awarded by the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia for academic excellence and contribution to population and development studies.

Dr Tan’s research has been chiefly in the fields of Human Geography and Demography, focusing in particular on, for China: migration and resettlement, regional development, sustainability planning in relation to the environment, population trends (especially population mobility) and their implications in China; for Australia: ageing, its changing patterns, causes and implications for social and economic change, and; in general: social applications of geographic information systems (GIS). She has published a number of articles in international journals, conference papers and reports in these areas.

Since joining NILS, she has been actively involved in several major research projects. These include: A Well-skilled Future: Tailoring VET to the Emerging Labour Market; Forecasts of Labour Supply for the Greater Metropolitan Area of New South Wales; The Labour Force Outlook in the Minerals Resources Sector: 2005 to 2015; University Employment Review to 2016; and 2007 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey. Currently, as one of two Chief Investigators, she is carrying out an Australian Research Council (ARC)-Discovery project on the effects of child disability on the labour market outcomes of carers in Australia.

Yan has worked as a consultant to the Emerging Social Issues Division of the UNESCAP since 2006. Since the beginning of 2006, she has been invited as a referee to review manuscripts for a number of journals, including Population and Environment, GeoForum, Population Studies, and Papers in Regional Science. She is a member of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the Australian Population Association, Australian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, and the ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well.

Selected Publications (2003 onwards):

Tan, Y. 2008. Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. http://www.hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.jsp?Pid=1&Version=0&Cid=16&Charset=iso-8859-1&page=-1&key=9789622098565

Tan, Y. 2008. ‘Linking migration responses to environmental degradation and change in West China’. In a research book edited by IOM. (forthcoming)

Tan, Y., Hugo, G. 2008. ‘Demographic impacts of the Three Gorges dam’. In S. Brunn and A. Wood (eds.) Engineering Earth. USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (forthcoming)

Tan, Y., Potter, L. 2008. ‘Three Gorges project: Impacts of rural resettlement and urban relocation on the environment in the reservoir area’. In The Good Earths. (forthcoming)

Tan, Y. 2007. ‘Issues of female migrants and a gendered “lens” towards developmental resettlement in the Three Gorges project, China’. In United Nations ESCAP (ed.), Perspectives on Gender and Migration, pp. 48-79. Bangkok: UN ESCAP.

Tan, Y. 2008. ‘Displacement and resettlement in the Three Gorges Project: Issues Confronting Women Migrants’. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 17(1): 1-31.

Tan, Y., Laurence, L., Richardson, S. 2008. ‘Labour force projections: A case for the greater metropolitan area of New South Wales’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 34(1): 79-99.

Wang, F., Tan, Y. 2007. ‘Population ageing and workforce development and planning’, Shichang yu Renkou (Journal of Market and Demographic Analysis), 2: 58-62 (in Chinese).

Tan, Y., Yao. F.J. 2006. ‘Three Gorges Project: Effects of resettlement on the environment in the reservoir area and countermeasures’, Population and Environment 27(4): 351-371.

Tan, Y., Hugo, G., Potter, L. 2005. ‘Rural women, displacement, and the Three Gorges Project’, Development and Change 36(4): 711-734.

Tan, Y., Bryan, B., Hugo, G. 2005. ‘Development, land-use change and rural resettlement capacity: A case study of the Three Gorges Project, China’, Australian Geographer 36(2): 201-220.

Tan, Y., Wang, Y.Q. 2004. ‘Environmental migration and sustainable development in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River’, Population and Environment 25(6): 613-636.

Tan, Y., Hugo, G., Potter, L. 2003. ‘Government-organised distant resettlement and the Three Gorges Project, China’, Asia-Pacific Population Journal 18(3): 5-26.

Tan, Y., Wang, Y.Q. 2003. ‘Three Gorges Project: Inundated land compensation and impacts on rural resettlement’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint 44(1): 35-50.

Wang, Y.Q., Tan, Y. 2003. ‘Compensation for Land Inundation in reservoir resettlement: A case study of the Three Gorges Project, China’, Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences, 8(3): 905-910.

Conference Papers (for work not otherwise listed):

Tan, Y., Hugo, G. 2007. ‘An overview of resettlement in the Three Gorges project’. Paper presented to the 12th International Metropolis Conference: Migration, Economic Growth, and Social Cohesion. Melbourne, Australia, 8-12 October.

Tan, Y., Guo, F. 2007. ‘Environmental concerns and population displacement in west China’. Paper presented to the 8th Asian Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN) International Conference: Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction. Fuzhou, China, 26-29 May.

Tan, Y. 2006. ‘Some demographic trends in participation in vocational education and training in Australia’. Paper prepared for the APA (Australian Population Association) Conference 2006, Adelaide, Australia. 5-8 December.

Research Reports:

Molloy, S., Tan, Y. 2008. The Labour Force Outlook in the Australian Minerals Sector: 2008 to 2020. Research report to the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA), Australia. June. Available on www.minerals.org.au.

Tan, Y., Richardson, S. 2007. University Employment Review to 2016. Research report to the Unisuper, Australia. October.

Tan, Y., Richardson, S. 2006. Demographic effects on the supply of vocational skills. Research report to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Australia. October. Available on http://www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nr4022/Tan_Overview2_1.pdf.

Richardson, S., Tan, Y. 2006. Forecasting future demands: What we can and cannot know. Research Report to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Australia. October. Available on http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/1744.html.

Richardson, S., Tan, Y., Lane, A., Flavell, J. 2006. Reasons why persons with VET qualifications are employed in lower skilled occupations and industries. Research paper prepared for Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), Australia. July. Available on http://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/investigation_content.asp?industry=5&sector=current&inquiry=94&doctype=5&doccategory=1&docgroup=1.

Lowry, D., Molloy, S., Tan, Y. 2006. Staffing the Supercycle: Labour force outlook in the minerals sector, 2005 to 2015. Research Report to the Minerals Council of Australia. August. Available on http://www.minerals.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/17013/Labour_Force_final.pdf.

Lowry, D., Molloy, S., Tan. Y. 2006. Labour force outlook in South Australia and the minerals resources sector: Occupational projections. Report prepared for the Olympic Dam Expansion Project, BHP Billiton. July.