Communities

Associate Professor Nick Hopwood and his collaborators are on a mission to raise awareness about tube-feeding to help families support children with complex feeding difficulties.

The jailing of First Nations women – at the fastest growing rate of any other group – is causing lasting damage to children, families and communities that’s hugely disproportionate to the relatively minor offences involved, UTS research has shown.

In 2011, Australia’s maternal death rate of 7.1 women per 100,000 was one of the lowest in the world. In neighbouring Papua New Guinea that same year, the rate was a staggering 129 times higher.

More than a decade after the Australian Government’s National Apology for the removal of Indigenous children from their families last century, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are still enduring separation from community and culture at an alarming rate.

Odyssey House NSW has provided care to people struggling with addiction for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, the impact of its well-known residential rehabilitation program has been confirmed by independent research.

Nathan Kettlewell is fascinated by risk – not in a should-I-put-it-all-on-red kind of way, but in his desire to explore what makes some people more open to taking risks while others are more cautious.

Business events contribute billions to economic activity in Australia, even on the simplest count of coffee cups and visitor beds. But a decade of study has drawn out their much wider economic and social benefits and, in turn, influenced the industry to seek deliberate – rather than incidental – impact for governments, industries and communities here and overseas.

Australian schools are increasingly implementing ‘bring your own device’ schemes, but what will it mean for learning? Researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are developing a best practice model for utilising mobile devices in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – to help teachers and students make the most of new technologies.

Human rights lawyer and UTS researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa has been developing a new tool, the Gender Legislative Index, to understand – and highlight – the good and the bad of laws affecting women around the world.