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Hayley Jach and Professor Lea WatersYou’re walking along the street when a scientist approaches you with a clipboard, an envelope, and a benevolent smile. Curious, you open the envelope: inside is either a $5 or $20 note. The scientist asks you to spend this money by 5pm. You can purchase anything, but it must be [...]
Associate Professor Luke Smillie, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and Hayley Jach As we think, fear, love and dream – 86 billion neurons are firing electrical and chemical signals at one another in a complex cascade of information exchange. This brain activity must somehow represent all parts of a person’s psychology, including their personality. And our new [...]
Dr Georgina Sutherland, Dr Sean Byars, Mellissa Kavenagh, Professor Anne Kavanagh and Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn Often hidden from view, high-profile cases like the deaths of Willow Dunn, David Harris and Ann Marie Smith shine a spotlight on the treatment of people with disability in Australia. Although the appalling individual culpability and systemic indifference that led [...]
-Neil Selwyn, Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University As many families and schools look forward to returning to face-to-face teaching, we need to take stock and prepare ourselves for the possibility of further bouts of remote home schooling. The gradual reopening of schools and resumption of face-to-face teaching is giving us a glimmer of hope [...]
Geoff Plimmer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Diep Nguyen, Edith Cowan University; Esme Franken, Edith Cowan University, and Stephen Teo, Edith Cowan University Having had to rapidly adjust to working from home due to COVID-19, many people are now having to readjust to life back in the office. Many will have enjoyed [...]
The significance of Men’s Health Week is now well-established. There's a growing awareness of men’s unequal propensity towards elevated rates of particular illnesses and diseases. Indeed, we've seen in recent months that men are more likely to die after contracting COVID-19, and scientists are doing important work to explore the implication of androgens in COVID‐19 [...]
Dr Wonsun Shin Since COVID-19 restrictions came into force across Australia, many families have been adapting to a whole new way of life. Even now, several months in with some restrictions easing, most of us are spending unprecedented amounts of time in our homes. Our social lives have contracted, and our ability to enjoy time [...]
John O'Rourke, Edith Cowan University Research has found people who have clarity around what provides meaning in their lives tend to be happier, healthier, more satisfied with life and resilient in the face of adversity. Given the dramatic growth in mental health issues, particularly in young people, researchers have recently tried to more deeply understand [...]
Amy Peacock, UNSW and Rachel Sutherland, UNSW There’s no question COVID-19 has changed many aspects of our lives. As drug researchers, we are interested in how the pandemic has affected illicit drug use in Australia. Our two new surveys of Australians who regularly use illicit drugs show people most commonly reported no change or a [...]
David Browning and Dr Christopher T. McCaw After a remarkable success in flattening the COVID-19 curve, Australia’s States and Territories are now charting the course back towards school-based learning. The shift to remote and online learning presented immense challenges for students, parents and teachers, and the digital divide means that existing educational inequalities are only [...]
