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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 […]

Better knowledge of who is moving to Tasmania, and why, may help ensure the state continues to appeal to younger cohorts, demographer Lisa Denny says. Dr Denny, a research fellow with the University of Tasmania’s Institute for the Study of Social Change, says although there are positive signs about increased arrivals and retention of younger […]

A new research group at the University of Tasmania is working with the state’s power companies, government and private enterprise to position Tasmania at the forefront of energy innovation. Future Energy brings together expertise from across the University’s disciplines of business, economics, engineering, ICT, social science, geography, marine science, architecture, planning, and the humanities to […]

Have you read the headlines? Tasmania is now on the move in a host of rankings and comparisons of the economic performance of Australian states. This is clearly good news, but have we entered a golden age? This Talking Point article by Institute for the Study of Social Change Director Professor Richard Eccleston first appeared […]

The Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISC) is seeking expressions of interest for a casual Research Assistant who will be involved in a major project entitled “Anticipatory Care: An action learning project with Tasmanian communities of place and culture”.  This project is a collaboration between the ISC and the Tasmanian Department of Health, the Sax […]

This article by Institute for the Study of Social Change affiliated researcher Professor Can Seng Ooi first appeared in The Mercury newspaper. Tasmania is attracting ever more visitors. There are serious concerns about the state’s capacity to host them. The good news is that we can be in control of our own tourism destiny. Singapore […]

This article by Institute for the Study of Social Change affiliated researcher Evan Franklin first appeared in The Mercury newspaper on August 30, 2018. LAST week’s tumultuous events in Canberra unfortunately spell the end to hopes of there being, any time soon at least, a coherent national policy that addresses both climate and energy objectives […]

This article by Institute for the Study of Social Change research fellow Dr Lisa Denny first appeared in the Mercury on August 10 2018. THIS week I graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy — a PhD — it’s been a long time coming and at many times I didn’t think I would actually do it. […]

A report released today by the Institute for the Study of Social Change highlights the key drivers of housing stress in the state. Read the full report. The Tasmanian Housing Update, August 2018 illustrates how the dynamics of population growth in Tasmania in recent years have been particularly housing intensive. A primary factor in the […]