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Are you “technostressed”?
Reeva Lederman | September 12, 2020As many of us continue to work from home during COVID-19, there’s increasing incidence of “technostress” and “techno-overload” among workers that needs to be addressed.
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Navigating relationships in uncertain times
Amy Vu | September 9, 2020The latest research by The Medical Journal of Australia found that significant feelings of depression or anxiety were being experienced by 25% of people after just the first month of COVID-19 restrictions.
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The long dark teatime of the soul
Open Forum | September 4, 2020Several new terms have been coined for the listlessness induced by COVID lockdowns, but an ancient word might be the best.
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Drinking gin when expecting water
Jamie-Lee Dwyer | August 16, 2020The social measures to contain COVID-19 have restricted our ability to socialise in traditional ways, but have also forced us to revalue our relations with ourselves and other people.
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Face to face with reality
Lachlan Gilbert | August 14, 2020Face pareidolia – the phenomenon of seeing faces in everyday objects – uses the same brain processes that we use to recognise and interpret other ‘real’ human faces.
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Turning back the clock
Zachariah Wylde | August 13, 2020As modern medicine improves, so too does our ability to stave off disease. But can we overcome the most inescapable of afflictions – old age? Researchers around the world are trying to find out.
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Is COVID changing our personalities?
Open Forum | August 9, 2020Our personalities have been known to change during unusually distressing times, such as a global pandemic locking us all away in our homes, but researchers from the US say that so far the COVID-19 pandemic has had very little effect on the “Big Five” personality traits.
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How work can affect your health and wellbeing
Amy Vu | July 29, 202074% of us worry that our work isn’t paying enough to keep up with the cost of living and 60% are concerned about the impact of work on our life and wellbeing.
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Our changing identities under COVID-19
Terry Bowles | July 25, 2020The fallout from the pandemic is a challenge to many people’s identity, but some of us have fewer resources to cope when our worlds are turned upside down.
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Two leaders with the right stuff
Ian Munro | July 14, 2020Gladys Berejiklian and Sally Capp, the winners of the 2019 McKinnon Political Prize for Political Leadership, have successfully mixed strength with empathy in recent years.
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Cutting food waste – through social media
Open Forum | July 14, 2020Australians who have been economically impacted by COVID-19 are doing it tough. The bills keep coming in and the family still needs to be fed. Yet the average Australian family continues to waste around $3,000 per year on food that isn’t being eaten.
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Social support and mental wellbeing in retirement
Life Course Centre | July 8, 2020While retirement is a significant life event, there has been little research on whether and how social support may evolve around retirement.