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Tasmania Report 2016 – In the news
In response to Saul Eslake’s Tasmania Report 2016 The Mercury newspaper has published three Op-Eds and an Editorial. We’ve included links to these pieces below, as well as links to other state and national reporting. Talking Point: Breed success with population by Lisa Denny, Demographer and Affiliated Researcher in the Institute for the Study of […]
Saul Eslake’s TCCI Tasmania Report 2016
The Tasmanian Report 2016 authored by University of Tasmania Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow Saul Eslake (positioned within the Institute for the Study of Social Change) was released yesterday at a series of TCCI events around the state. Read a copy of the Tasmania Report 2016 Coverage from ABC News is included below. Tasmanian economy risks falling further […]
Professor Richard Eccleston’s New Book ‘The Future of Federalism’ to be released in January 2017
Our Director Professor Richard Eccleston’s new book The Future of Federalism will be released in January 2017. The global financial crisis had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this illuminating book show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process […]
ISC Affiliated Researchers win ANZAM Award
ISC Affiliated Researchers Associate Professor Martin Grimmer and Dr Dennis Grube (now at Cambridge University) have just been awarded with the Best Overall Paper Award at the 2016 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference, held at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Their paper Political Branding: A Consumer Perspective on Australian […]
National competitive grant success for HACRU researchers
Housing and Community Research Unit researchers Dr Kathleen Flanagan, Assoc Prof Daphne Habibis and Prof Keith Jacobs at the Institute for the Study of Social Change have been successful in winning six competitive national research grants, amounting to $365,000 in the 2017 National Housing Research Program. Four of the grants, address the issue of housing […]
AAG Conference Best Poster Award to Dr Peta Cook
Best Poster Award to Dr Peta Cook Congratulations to Dr Peta Cook from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania has been awarded Best Poster at the recent recent 49th Annual Australian Association of Gerontology Conference held in Canberra in November. Dr Cook’s poster was titled ‘Living with and experiencing ageing as […]