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    Dangers of the desk job

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/327-dangers-of-the-desk-job
    22 Jun 2017: Australians are working longer and exercising less with two out of three adults now classed as overweight or obese – presenting Dr Scott Pedersen with a mighty battle. As the Director of the Active Work Lab in the University of Tasmania's Faculty
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    Putting the emotion into maths for better learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/500-putting-the-emotion-into-maths-for-better-learning
    17 Dec 2017: Are you a “maths person”? Most people think they are, or they aren’t. What if we told you there was no such thing? Professor Kim Beswick is an ARC Future Fellow, and her research is aiming to help teachers educate their students better, by
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    Shedding the maths stigma

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/367-shedding-the-maths-stigma
    3 Aug 2017: Many of us gain a sense of control over a situation when we are able to create some kind of order. Teachers presented with a class full of children also tend to do this; grouping children with others who appear to be at the same level as them in
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    Criminality and Climate Change

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/254-criminality-and-climate-change
    3 Apr 2017: While the obvious impact of climate change is the increased temperature, rising sea-level and an impact to the ecology, there is also the issue of increased criminality. One of the many side-effects of climate change that many people don't make the
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    What we can learn from book clubs

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/420-what-we-can-learn-from-book-clubs
    3 Oct 2017: Children’s book clubs have been in the news lately. In July, ABC Online featured a number of Year 6 students who had formed their own clubs. The kids love their reading groups and the story describes how the groups form the basis of lasting
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    University of Tasmania historian shortlisted for Ernest Scott Prize

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/249-university-of-tasmania-historian-shortlisted-for-ernest-scott-prize
    26 Mar 2017: A book by University of Tasmania History and Classics Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Penny Edmonds has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. The $13,000 prize is awarded to work based upon original research, which
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    Bruny energy research project powers up

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/375-bruny-energy-research-project-powers-up
    17 Aug 2017: The rapid changes in the energy sector are driving some of the biggest innovations experienced in centuries. How energy is consumed today, and where will it come from tomorrow, are some of the bigger questions being asked the world over. Central to
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    The decline in male teacher numbers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/441-the-decline-in-male-teacher-numbers
    20 Oct 2017: The percentage of male primary school teachers in Australia has decreased in recent decades, from 30. 24% in 1983 to 18. 26% in 2016. Education authorities have responded to this with recruitment-focused initiatives, such as scholarships and quota
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    History textbooks still imply that Australians are white

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/323-history-textbooks-still-imply-that-australians-are-white
    19 Jun 2017: Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that Australians are white. Textbook depictions of Australianness are not only relevant to experiences of national belonging or exclusion. Research has
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    Why do pregnancy pictures from everyday women matter?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/237-why-do-pregnancy-pictures-from-everyday-women-matter
    8 Feb 2017: Stop the presses, Beyoncé is pregnant. For a brief moment last week, the headlines shifted from Trump to the “Queen Bey”, who dropped the news of her twin pregnancy on Instagram in a post garnering nearly 10 million “likes”. Beyoncé

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