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Students to explore cost-of-living at the 2023 Economics Challenge

The University of Tasmania is bringing Year 11 and 12 students from around the state together for the 2023 Economics Challenge to learn about the value of economics.This year’s Challenge, hosted by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics,

Accountancy and the path to net zero

Accountancy has a reputation as a backroom – perhaps even a boring – profession. But that’s all changing. Accountants are leading and guiding organisations dealing with the climate crisis, helping to create a better future for us and coming

Asylum seeker scholarship helped Mohammad follow his study dreams in Tassie

Mohammad Mansourinejad was only nine years old in 2012, when he and his mother arrived in Australia as asylum-seekers from Iran, in search of a new life and a fresh start.Currently studying the second year of his Bachelor of Business degree at the

AI could take your job, but it can also help you score a new one with these simple tips

It was once thought physical labour jobs would be the most at risk from the rise of artificial intelligence. But recent advances suggest we can expect disruption across a vast range of sectors, including knowledge-based industries.We certainly need

Behavioural lab to uncover vital insights for Tasmania

Tasmania’s first behavioural insights research lab will be launched in Hobart today at the University of Tasmania.The Tasmanian Behavioural Lab will provide businesses, not-for-profits, and government departments across the state with access to

Are nudges sinister psychological tricks? Or are they useless? Actually they are neither

Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions – has been one of the most popular ideas to emerge from economics in the past two decades.But nudging is now under attack, entangled in

Australians pay $163 a month on average to store all the stuff we buy – how can we stop overconsuming?

Many of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of A$163 per month on self-storage, one recent survey found.The number one item stored in these

Providing opportunity

Moya Deigan (GDipBA 2007, MBA 2008) appreciates the value of education. Born in Wollongong, but a Tasmanian resident for over 30 years, Moya was the first in her family to go to university. Indeed, she was the first person in her family to receive

Crown Princess Mary Scholarship reflections

One of the first recipients of the inaugural Crown Princess Mary Scholarship was Danielle Conlan (BCom-LLB Hons), whose world changed when she took up the opportunity to study in Denmark.“Studying abroad indelibly changes you,” Danielle said.

Meet the twin forces behind start-up success stories

Lucy Hosken’s maiden business started small.In fact, it was all about ‘the smalls’ – a simple quest to find functional and fashionable shapewear.Nearly Nude, a luxury lingerie label, was launched.Soon it had gone global.After a decade with