The release of the 2011 film Contagion starting Kate Winslet introduced the world to contact tracers: highly skilled individuals who use a range of methods to ‘trace’ infections humans and those with whom they have come in contact. As COVID-19 ...
More »Prioritising staff, expecting to lose thousands of students: Professor Rufus Black outlines UTAS’s immediate future
The University of Tasmania’s vice-chancellor Professor Rufus Black said in the face of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic he would prioritise keeping staff, despite expecting to lose thousands of students both this year and next. Instead, UTAS intends on staying afloat ...
More »COVID-19 ‘likely’ to affect Australia’s birth rate, relationships and population
A leading demographer believes Australians will be less likely to have babies, and the nation will experience changes in population and the way we form relationships as the COVID-19 uncertainty drags on. Dr Liz Allen, a population expert at Australian National ...
More »Six key humanities grant applications extended until June
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has extended the deadline for several prestigious humanities research grants, as COVID-19 continues to cause significant disruptions to work and personal life. Australia’s peak humanities body has now extended the deadline for the grants below ...
More »Staying socially connected in an isolated world: Professor Marc Stears
While it might sound trite, the world as we know it has changed for now. Not only has this "invisible enemy" killed thousands around the globe and sent economies into a nose dive, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a slew ...
More »How five Australian universities are dealing with the new normal
As Australia continues to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and deal with the economic fallout, a number of universities are communicating to their staff their much-needed entitlements as well as the imperative to move online, delay the start of ...
More »ANU professor recommends HECS-style loans to soften COVID-19 economic crash
The architect of Australia’s original Higher Education Contribution Scheme – known as HECS – is calling on the government to roll out income and revenue-based loans to soften a likely world recession. Australia National University leading economist Professor Bruce Chapman ...
More »ANU research to help ‘close the gap’ on Indigenous heart disease
New national recommendations have stated that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should have their heart checked by age 18 at the latest. These recommendations, which appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia in an article entitled ‘Cardiovascular disease risk ...
More »NTEU hopes for ‘widespread ramifications’ after UTS academic is reinstated and compensated
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is hopeful benchmarking trends will change after the Fair Work Commission ordered that a UTS academic be reinstated immediately and compensated. The Fair Work Commission this week overturned the University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) ...
More »New project uses games technology and video simulation to tackle suicide
Curtin University is utilising games technology to create web-based video simulations aimed at helping mental health experts identify and better communicate with people contemplating suicide. As the World Health Organization points out, suicide is the second leading cause of death ...
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