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Dr Colin Gallagher, John Richardson, Professor Lisa Gibbs, Professor Lou Harms, Professor Meaghan O'Donnell and Professor Richard Bryant Social connection is key for helping people to weather and recover from traumatic disasters like bushfires, according to a major 10-year study into Australia’s 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria that killed 173 people. The report, released [...]
Associate Professor Eva Alisic and Dr Mira Vasileva Details are emerging about how the pandemic has affected Australian young children – aged between 1 and 5 years – who had their education and home lives disrupted in 2020. While Australian children as a group may have fared better than those in countries with much [...]
Dr Jessica Gannaway, Dr Melitta Hogarth and Dr Sophie Rudolph The resurgence of the global Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in the United States last year has brought with it renewed attention on police brutality and deaths in custody. Here in Australia, children as young as 10 years old are [...]
Tanya Notley, Western Sydney University; Michael Dezuanni, Queensland University of Technology; Simon Chambers, Western Sydney University, and Sora Park, University of Canberra For most of us, it’s hard to imagine a media-free day. Understanding what’s happening in the world, maintaining our social media profiles, staying in touch with family, being entertained, making new friends, engaging [...]
Sharon O'Mara, La Trobe University and Kirsty Duncanson, La Trobe University Thousands of women outlined stories of sexual harassment at private school parties in a petition launched by Chanel Contos recently. Contos is calling for better sexuality education at school, which includes more information about consent. After the March 4 Justice rally demanding better treatment [...]
Christine Grové, Monash University The COVID pandemic has shone a light on the ongoing decline in young people’s mental health. Psychologists have warned if we don’t start to address the mental health emergency of young people’s anxiety and depression, it may become a “trans-generational disaster”. Paediatricians have said they are seeing growing numbers of young [...]
With gifted young people there are two aims: - To help them to make the most of their main learning strength; and - To help them to use that learning strength to increase their performance in other areas. Young people & children who have been identified as especially gifted benefit greatly from knowing their learning [...]
In this episode: A holistic and integrated approach to wellbeing is strongly recommended for the future longevity of students' well-being The model for positive education emphasises learning, living, teaching, and embedding positive education so that staff can authentically integrate this into their classroom practice At Geelong Grammar School, over 60 staff members have taken [...]
Professor Jane Pirkis and Tass MousaferiadisFor the first time large-scale empirical research has linked notions of what it is to be a man with suicidal thoughts, which the researchers argue puts a spotlight on the societal attitudes that may be putting men at greater risk of taking their own lives. The study of almost 14,000 [...]
Associate Professor Victoria Palmer Thinking back to life before lockdown, it can be tempting to do so through rose-tinted glasses. Some things, like travel, may have indeed been easier, but many major issues like affordable housing, secure employment, loneliness, violence and access to mental health care were in need of urgent attention before pandemic – [...]
