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Soft skills – which ones are important and how can universities teach them?
The Australian student voice on the soft skills needed for the future, and how universities can integrate these skills into their teaching This white paper reviews findings from a survey of Australian higher education students on which soft skills they believe to be the most important for future career success. It also consults eight academic […]
Informing Tasmania’s response, recovery and post-COVID future
As in many things, Tasmania is experiencing COVID-19 in ways that differ from other states. We knew being an island could give us faster and tighter control of our borders, and we know our demographics make us more vulnerable – physically, socially and economically – to the virus. These differences are evident to those leading […]
Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – January 2020
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania To access all of the graphs, tables and footnotes, download Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – January 2020 (PDF 321KB). The January 2020 Tasmanian Demographic Analysis ShapShot provides an overview of quarterly Australian demographic statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in December 2019 […]
December Tasmanian Demographic SnapShot
Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – December 2019 Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of Tasmania To see all of the graphs, tables and footnotes associated with this SnapShot, please download a PDF version (220KB). The December 2019 Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot provides an overview of natural population change […]
Tasmanian housing update highlights need for more social housing
The University of Tasmania’s Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU) has prepared a Tasmanian housing update to inform the community and policy makers about the ongoing shortage of affordable housing in the State. Read the full report (PDF 830KB). There continues to be an acute shortage of affordable housing across Tasmania, particularly in Greater Hobart. […]
Experts push for end to health and housing divide
An international housing expert is in Hobart today to urge policy makers to invest more in housing for the sake of the economy and public health. David E. Jacobs (pictured left with UTAS professor Keith Jacobs) is chief scientist with the National Center for Healthy Housing in the United States and the director of the World […]
New app to help fire-affected Huon Valley businesses recover
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 […]
Submission on the House of Assembly Restoration Bill 2019
The Institute for the Study of Social Change supports the restoration of the Tasmanian House of Assembly to 35 members, but argues it should be the first in a wider program of governance reforms. This is focus of a submission on the House of Assembly Restoration Bill 2019 by our Director Professor Richard Eccleston and fellow researcher Zoë Jay. The submission outlines […]
Preventing chronic disease: Anticipatory Care Project newsletter
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 […]
World leading researchers on track for Hobart symposium
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 […]