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Yes, blue light from your phone can harm your skin. A dermatologist explains

Michael Freeman, Bond University Social media is full of claims that everyday habits can harm your skin. It’s also full of recommendations or advertisements for products that can protect you. Now social media has blue light from our devices in its sights. So can scrolling on our phones really damage your skin? And will applying [...]

By |2025-06-02T12:01:02+10:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Screen Use|Tags: |0 Comments

What’s the difference between shyness and social anxiety?

Kayla Steele, UNSW Sydney and Jill Newby, UNSW Sydney What’s the difference? is a new editorial product that explains the similarities and differences between commonly confused health and medical terms, and why they matter. The terms “shyness” and “social anxiety” are often used interchangeably because they both involve feeling uncomfortable in social situations. However, feeling [...]

By |2025-06-02T11:51:41+10:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Anxiety, Social and Emotional Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

Nine Predisposing Factors for Violence in Young People and How to Intervene

Download article as a PDF Two recent releases have prompted this article: The Netflix series Adolescence and the 2025 Reith Lectures from the BBC on Violence. Both are highly recommended. In the Reith Lectures, forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Gwen Ashead, outlines seven factors that give rise to the violent mindset. While there is no one [...]

By |2025-06-02T13:53:01+10:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Violence|Tags: |0 Comments

Engaging boys in learning

Download article as a PDF Teaching and engaging boys is a mix of being an ace motivational coach with being an overly active events manager while being big-hearted while having the stern eye of a store detective. In short, not complicated at all! Having a brother is like having a best friend who occasionally wants [...]

By |2025-05-26T11:35:00+10:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: Learning|Tags: |0 Comments

Vaping and mental health are closely linked. That can make quitting even harder

Joshua Trigg, Flinders University; Anthony Venning, Flinders University, and Lavender Otieno, Flinders University Vaping is in your news feed for its regulation, impact on public health and effects on young people. So with growing awareness of the effects of vaping on health plus recent reforms to limit availability of vapes to pharmacies in Australia, [...]

By |2025-05-26T11:35:11+10:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: |0 Comments

Hard work feels worth it, but only after it’s done – new research on how people value effort

Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego and Przemysław Marcowski, University of California, San Diego When deciding if something is worth the effort, whether you’ve already exerted yourself or face the prospect of work changes your calculus. That’s what we found in our new research, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. When you [...]

By |2025-05-26T11:35:22+10:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: Science & Research|Tags: |0 Comments

Project 2040 – Dispatch 2 – Robots and Automation in Schools

Greetings from 2040. The past two decades have rewritten the script of education. The world you know—your policies, institutions, even your assumptions about learning—has been overtaken by a future that demanded we think beyond the present. We had a choice: resist change and fall behind or embrace transformation with open minds and bold strategy. We [...]

By |2025-06-02T12:03:44+10:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

Project 2040 – Dispatch 1 Visioning what Schools Can Become

Greetings from 2040! You probably won’t recognise how schools function these days. By the end of 2024 we realised we had to redesign schools to meet the needs of a new generation of young people. The warning signs for us by 2024 included 20% of students not completing schooling, 33% not meeting literacy and [...]

By |2025-05-26T12:36:22+10:00May 10th, 2025|Categories: Education|Tags: |0 Comments

Empowering teenage girls: Strengths, confidence, and motivation

Download article as a PDF Much of the recent literature on adolescent girls focuses on rising levels of anxiety, body image concerns, and social pressures. While these challenges are real and should not be dismissed, an equally important narrative risks being under-acknowledged: teenage girls are idealistic, perceptive, creative, and powerful. In schools, homes, and communities, [...]

By |2025-05-12T17:45:50+10:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: Positive Psychology, Resilience|Tags: |0 Comments

Here’s a simple, science-backed way to sharpen your thinking and improve your memory

Ben Singh, University of South Australia and Ashleigh E. Smith, University of South Australia Many of us turn to Sudoku, Wordle or brain-training apps to sharpen our minds. But research is increasingly showing one of the best ways to boost memory, focus and brain health is exercise. Our new research reviewed data from more than [...]

By |2025-05-12T17:46:04+10:00May 2nd, 2025|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Wellbeing|Tags: |0 Comments
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