The war in Ukraine is being described as the first social media war, even as “the TikTok war”. Memes, tweets, videos and blog posts communicate both vital information and propaganda, potentially changing the course of history. This highlights the importance of agile and critical social media use. English in schools, in contrast, still focuses on […] … learn more→

Recent research has linked playing video games in childhood with an increase in intelligence. While parents and carers may be pleasantly surprised by these findings, they are less unexpected for many researchers of children’s digital play. Studies have previously shown that playing digital games is associated with a wide range of benefits for children, even […] … learn more→

Is it more difficult for us to express emotions when we speak in another language? Are we more talkative when we tell an unpleasant fact or when we are overwhelmed by a positive emotion? What resources do we use to transmit intensity in our emotions? Do we use these resources according to our level of proficiency in a […] … learn more→

The issue of boredom has been worrying humanity since ancient times. The warriors of the Homeric deeds suffered from it in the periods between battles. Plato was afraid of being boring to others, as his teacher was rumored to be. Seneca tortured himself thinking about the possibility that boredom would unleash a wave of suicides among the Romans. […] … learn more→

You’d be forgiven for not having heard about the long-awaited new Australian Curriculum, which was released with little fanfare in the midst of the election campaign. But this update to the national curriculum (9.0), for foundation to year 12 students, is hugely significant. It will guide the education of young Australians for the next six years, […] … learn more→

The shift of higher education to digital, greatly accelerated by the pandemic and its health constraints, raises major ethical issues in terms of cheating and plagiarism. However, “we cannot solve today’s integrity problems with the tools of the past. The law and university regulations are not adapted”, as Michelle Bergadaà affirmed on the occasion of the labeling by the National Foundation […] … learn more→

Many researchers find themselves inventing names because it’s standard ethical procedure to anonymise the people we’ve talked with and the places we’ve been. And naming is of course a simple and straightforward process. Well, maybe. Well, not all the time. Perhaps hardly ever. Names can be very troublesome and researchers can spend surprising amounts of […] … learn more→

Contract and casual workers in Australian universities have borne the brunt of revenue losses and funding cuts to higher education and research. When the government refused to provide JobKeeper to public universities during the COVID pandemic, thousands of academics on contracts got the boot. My research, with Nerida Spina, Simon Bailey, Mhorag Goff and Kate Smithers, aims to understand and support the working […] … learn more→

Alcohol consumption represents a serious public health problem on a global scale. The World Health Organization has warned about the dangers associated with excessive alcohol consumption : damage to health , increased risk behaviors, mental health problems and violence. Abundant data show that alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for disease and premature death. If we talk about risk patterns, episodic excessive […] … learn more→

Due to changing lifestyles and technological innovations, businesses are rapidly changing how they do business and the way they sell to their customers, even those enterprises that sell to other businesses. One of the most important changes is selling online to other companies. This has been made possible by joining online marketplaces for B2B. What […] … learn more→