Articles related to 'Society'
Related topics: Built Environment, Social Inclusion, Sustainability & The Environment
Instant perception a visionary marvel
Research at Swinburne has found that people are able to consciously perceive images even if displayed for as briefly as 1/1000 of a second, casting new light on so-called subliminal vision.
Energy thirst reveals awkward truths
New research shows voluntary behaviour change in energy consumption will be no easy task – even for committed environmentalists
Hunters and collectors in a vicious cycle
Compulsive buying and hoarding need to be taken seriously as community health and safety issues, Swinburne research indicates
Sustainability - Hybrid housing to ease the way forward
While changes in our energy consumption behaviour are one pathway to a sustainable future, advances in technology and housing design are also needed.
Democracy’s watchdog not alarmed but still alert
The head of an influential group that keeps an eye on Australia’s democratic health says our strong scorecard leaves room for improvement
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Centre to lead social dialogue
In politics, workplaces and in life generally, a need is emerging for people trained to give structure and function to shared hopes and opportunities.
Greyfields revisited
Australian cities’ ageing residential tracts – or ‘greyfields’ – offer environmental and economic solutions to Australia’s hunger for city housing
Internet journalism 'pens' the death of an empire
Changes wrought by the internet may, over time, match those heralded by the printing press. The challenge will be to conserve the good of the past, while embracing evolving opportunities.
Research to structure social inclusion
Swinburne's Institute for Social Research runs more than 40 externally funded social inclusion projects a year.
Leadership a cultural cloth cut for the times
Understanding the social and historical influences that shape leadership ideals could do much to help smooth country-to-country business relationships in our culturally diverse region
Will the ferryman come for climate refugees?
Tufitu Lotee has experienced the terror of huge ocean waves flooding her home. Tufitu and her family live on the islet of Fongafale on Funafuti atoll, the capital of Tuvalu, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Their house is on a 100-metre-wide strip of land between the Pacific Ocean on one side and a lagoon on the other.
Gap in social options raises ‘pokie’ appeal
New research into the appeal of poker machines shows there may be much more to ‘problem gambling’ than the bedazzle of spinning fruits.
Libraries turn a digital page
Derek Whitehead, head of Swinburne's libraries, discusses the quiet revolution bringing libraries into the digital age.
Services get smartened up
Customers will soon have a bigger say in how they can access services, particularly online services. It’s all part of a new field of technology known as smart services.
Tales from the high-rise
A digital storytelling project by students at Swinburne's Design Centre breathes new life into Melbourne's public housing estates.
Cultural collaboration to better meld communities
A project involving Australia's Vietnamese community and Victoria Police is helping to build bridges and could ultimately benefit other communities.
Language the bridge across a strange new world
A look inside the Adult Migrant English Program offered at Swinburne University of Technology shows a microcosm of the issues migrants and refugees face after arriving in Australia.
Housing shortage hits ageing Aussies
Reports about the dire shortage of affordable rental accommodation in Australia's major cities appear regularly in the news. But the impact of this housing crisis on older Australians and providers of public housing is rarely highlighted.
How rents are crushing quality of life
When housing affordability is raised in the media, the story is invariably about how hard it is for first homebuyers to plant a foot on the property ladder. But the real housing affordability crisis is among those not even in the hunt for home ownership.
No place like home - but no home to place
An inquiry into youth homelessness has ripped the cloak of apathy from the plight of Australia's homeless and pushed the Federal Government to get serious about finding answers.
How memories of past injustice can travail the future
Societies attempting to confront past injustices may benefit from a new initiative on social memory being developed by a Swinburne historian
Blogging bliss in online oratory
A Masters project that found blogging to be quite therapeutic has triggered a global upwelling of feel-good feedback
Innovation pipeline the lifeblood of sustainable cities
Australia's population is growing rapidly and is being directed almost entirely into big, seaboard cities, straining infrastructure, housing availability and services such as transport, health and education. It is a circumstance that seems to have caught policy-makers off-guard and which now presents some very formidable challenges for governments, corporations and professionals whose job it is to bolster and sustain urban development.
Trust drawn from the messenger, not the message
Australians' optimism about the benefits of science and technology rests precipitously on how much they trust those delivering the information
