The Institute for the Study for Social Change is thrilled to be working with a range of partners and four Tasmanian communities to develop strategies to prevent chronic disease. Take a look at the first Anticipatory Care Project newsletter (PDF 616KB). Anticipatory care is a population approach to health care. It identifies and supports people […]

This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change Research Fellow Dr Lisa Denny, first appeared on The Conversation on Wednesday 2o February 2019. Sensationalist claims that 40% of jobs in Australia won’t exist in the future are unhelpful for young Australians thinking about entering the workforce. The reality is some jobs will no longer exist, new jobs […]

World-leading researchers will gather in Hobart for the University of Tasmania’s Tourism Tracking Symposium on Friday. Hosted by the Tourism Research Education Network (TRENd) and Institute for the Study of Social Change, event organiser and the University of Tasmania’s Associate Professor Anne Hardy said the free event will focus on tracking tourists which is one […]

Treating social housing as a form of essential infrastructure is the focus of a joint research paper released last week, featuring the University of Tasmania’s award-winning researcher Kathleen Flanagan. Dr Flanagan last week received the Federal Minister’s Award for Early Career Housing Researcher at the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference in Adelaide, where she provided an […]

This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccelston, first appeared in the Mercury newspaper on Saturday 2 February 2019. GOUGH Whitlam once said that a week was a long time in politics. But Tasmanians have had to wait a full 11 months for the Australian Election Commission to […]