Terry and Valerie Hull

Terence H. Hull and Valerie J. Hull have been partners in demography since the first cohort of the East-West Population Institute. Their original plans to study the status of women (Val) and the value of children (Terry) in Fiji grew out of an interest in nascent family planning and fertility control. After Fiji suspended foreign research visas they were encouraged to move their projects on to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The 1970s were a golden age at ANU for research synthesis of anthropological, sociological, economic and historical methods to illuminate demographic theory. Val worked in a series of population and health policy posts with the Australian Aid Program and the Population Council, and Terry managed research training programs in Asia funded by UNFPA, AusAid, and the Ford Foundation, all while employed by the Australian National University. Since retirement, they have remained active in PAA, IUSSP, APCRSHR, Asian Population Association, and the Australian Population Association.