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Research
Anticipatory Care: A place-based and proactive approach to reducing chronic disease in Tasmanian communities
The University of Tasmania, through the Institute for Social Change, has been a research partner on the Tasmanian Government’s Anticipatory Care project. The project has seen four communities around Tasmania […]

The Tasmania Project Initial Findings: Report 1
The Tasmania Project invited survey responses from Tasmanian residents aged 18 and over and conducted 50 in-depth interviews. Topics covered by the survey and interviews include: adjusting to COVID-19; sources […]

COVIDSafe uptake in Tasmania limited by out-of-date phones
Old mobile phones and a lack of trust in government are the main reasons Tasmanian residents say they cannot or will not download the COVIDSafe app. A University of Tasmania […]

Health workforce and COVID-19
The north west of Tasmania is currently experiencing the strictest COVID-19 lock down of any part of the nation. Between 1,000 and 1,200 hospital staff are quarantined with their households […]

Protecting against the unintended consequences of social isolation
Social isolation, job losses and economic downturn, not to mention the prospect of lethal illness, will almost certainly be heightening anxiety for all of us. But for many Australians an […]

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, […]
COVID-19: Housing market opportunity for counter cyclical investment in social housing
Jacqueline De Vries, Data Analyst The full effect of Covid-19 on the Tasmanian economy will not be known for some time to come, but it is likely to induce a […]

Reshaping the Lucky Country
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania The COVID-19 global pandemic has revealed an inconvenient truth for Australia; we have a national economy founded on […]

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 […]

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 […]
