While COVID-19 is at the forefront of everyone’s mind right now, it’s easy to forget that malaria is still a global killer with no effective vaccine. Indeed, according to the World Health Organization, in 2018 there were an estimated 228 ...
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A University of Queensland partnership between public and not-for-profit agencies has been given the green light to deploy a strategy that hopes to end the scourge of homelessness in Brisbane. However, as two UQ researchers in charge of the project ...
More »Research shows emoji help to both motivate students and soften the blow of feedback
Who would have thought that emojis, conceived over 20 years ago and called emoticons, would become a useful part of helping students accept online feedback and motivate them in these times of remote learning? But RMIT psychology lecturer Robyn Moffitt ...
More »The ‘quiet crisis’: how COVID-19 could be turning away our future researchers
The economic strain of COVID-19 is forcing 45 per cent of Australia’s best and brightest future researchers to consider disengaging from their PhD studies. A new study from The University of Sydney, titled 'The Quiet Crisis of PhDs and COVID-19: ...
More »Researchers call for a ‘national response’ to harmful sexual behaviours among children
A newly released book by Dr Lesley-Ann Ey and Professor Elspeth McInnes of UniSA is pushing for a national, coordinated response to growing rates of children’s harmful sexual behaviours, or HSB. However, a key problem they’ve identified in addressing the ...
More »New study reveals COVID-19’s effect on relationships and mental health
A report released today from ANU has shown that roughly one in two Australians, or 47 per cent, are more stressed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from the survey of more than 3,200 people – led by ...
More »Nationwide survey reveals how the education sector coped at the height of COVID-19
A survey conducted at the zenith of COVID-19 reported that teachers were routinely working extra hours, with nearly half of the 1200 respondents working almost an extra day during the pandemic and others working in excess of 20 extra hours ...
More »Could low-cost hydrogen be powering our homes and businesses sooner than expected?
Low-cost hydrogen storage to help power homes and businesses across Australia could soon become a reality due to promising new technology developed in Australia. While renewables will remain part of the energy mix, UNSW researchers have developed metal alloys that can ...
More »$8m philanthropic donation to help researcher ‘hunt’ and ‘destroy’ cancer
One of the world’s most-promising early career researchers has received a generous $8 million-dollar grant from Terry Snow and the Snow family to pursue research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer. Dr Marian Burr ...
More »The 21st century skills our students need and how they should be recorded: new report
A new report argues the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption to Australia’s education system is really an opportunity, not a hurdle or catastrophe that some have feared. The report contends that the pandemic is providing an opportunity “to reshape the way we assess ...
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