Institute for the Study of Social Change director Professor Richard Eccleston has launched a new report for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) on how to create a fairer housing system in Australia. Read the Australian Financial Review’s coverage of the report findings. Read the Inside Story’s coverage. Read the Examiner newspaper’s coverage of the report. […]

Social Science researchers at the University of Tasmania have been awarded coveted Australian Research Council funding to tackle emerging global challenges including tax avoidance by multi-nationals and how best to respond to religious diversity. Professor of Sociology Douglas Ezzy will lead a project that aims to make Australia safer through identifying strategies to maintain social […]

Men are ‘disappearing’ from the workforce, and fewer Tasmanians are employed in or seeking full-time jobs, the Institute for the Study of Social Change has found. In the first of a new series of Institute Insight reports focusing on social and economic change, the institute’s research fellow, demographer Lisa Denny has analysed data from the […]

Australia Day should be celebrated on May 9, eminent historian and author Professor Henry Reynolds told a packed audience in Hobart last night. Professor Reynolds presented a public talk for the Institute for the Study of Social Change titled Political Correctness or Common Sense? The Australia Day Controversy. Watch online via livestream. “Those events in […]