A new app launched today will promote Tasmania’s Huon Valley as a tourist destination and help understand how the 2019 bushfires affected visitation. The University of Tasmania has partnered with the Huon Valley Council and a licence holder for the University’s Tourism Tracer technology, Gulliver, to produce the new app named “Huon Valley”, which has […]

Attending the Huon Valley app launch.
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  Tasmania is experiencing its strongest rate of population growth in almost a decade, but the situation differs substantially for the State’s 29 Local Government Areas (LGAs), the latest report released today by the University of Tasmania’s Institute for the Study of Social Change reveals. The report Insight Nine: Regional population trends in Tasmania: issues […]

University of Tasmania's Institute for the Study of Social Change Researcher and Demographer Dr Lisa Denny (left) and Researcher Nyree Pisanu launched their latest Insight Report on Tasmania's population trends on 17 June 2019.
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This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change demographer and Research Fellow Dr Lisa Denny originally appeared in the Mercury on Thursday 23 May 2019. FOR almost 20 years I have been involved in some form or another in the research or policy development for improving the life outcomes of Tasmanians. In […]

Dr Lisa Denny is a demographer and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania. She has had 20 years’ experience in private industry and the public sector in Tasmania. She was at the “Communicating: The Heart of Literacy” symposium at Government House in November.

This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston, first appeared in the Mercury newspaper on Monday 20 May 2019. PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has defied the odds and opinion polls to win what appears to be a third term for the Coalition Government. Tasmania, and the northern seats of […]

Institute for the Study for Social Change Professor Richard Eccleston looks at the 2019 Federal Election outcome.

  How Tasmania’s tourism industry can recover after a crisis, such as fire, will be the focus of a free forum held tonight in the Huon Valley by the University of Tasmania. Word-renowned expert and author in tourism crisis Dr Gabby Walters from the University of Queensland, will cover how crises affect the tourism market […]

How Tasmania's tourism industry recovers after a crisis will be the focus of an event tonight in the Huon Valley.
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This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston, first appeared in the Mercury newspaper on Tuesday 7 May 2019. AS with any new technology, the rapid growth in accommodation ‘sharing’ platforms such as Airbnb is creating winners and losers. Tasmanians know this better than most. They are living […]

Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston with the latest Insight Report on regulating short-stay accommodation in Tasmania.

The rapid growth of short-stay accommodation has been a win for travellers, property owners and investors in Tasmania, but has contributed to the State’s significant housing challenges, the latest report released today by the University of Tasmania’s Institute for the Study of Social Change has revealed. The report Insight Eight: Regulating Short-Stay Accommodation in Tasmania, […]

The Institute for the Study of Social Change released its latest Insight Report today on regulating Airbnb.

Helping Tasmanians of all ages to prevent chronic disease is the focus of a collaboration called the Anticipatory Care Project. The Institute for the Study for Social Change (ISC) is working with a range of partners and four Tasmanian communities to develop strategies to prevent chronic disease and promote healthy living. University of Tasmania Senior […]

Attending a community workshop in Ulverstone are (from left): Judi Walker (community project lead), Miriam Vandenberg (ISC), Flora Dean (Principal Project Officer, Anticipatory Care, Department of Health), Susan Banks (Institute for the Study of Social Change), Holly Stubbs (Ulverstone project support officer), Hannah Tait (The Sax Institute) and Robin Krabbe (ISC).

This article ‘The Federal election 2019: state of the states’ first featured on The Conversation website on Thursday 11 April 2019 by various authors, including Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston and University of Tasmania PhD candidate Michael Lester. WE NOW know that the next federal election will take place on […]

Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston.

Tasmanian women and children experiencing domestic violence are more likely to stay in abusive environments due to difficulties accessing social and affordable housing, the latest Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) report revealed yesterday. Lead author of the AHURI report, ‘Housing outcomes after family violence’, the University of Tasmania’s Research Fellow Dr Kathleen Flanagan, […]

The University of Tasmania's award-winning researcher Kathleen Flanagan will co-present a lunchtime forum on social housing in Hobart tomorrow (13 February).