By Professor Mark Wooden Published on December 5, 2022 Pre-pandemic, if you worked mostly from home, you were in a small minority of Australians (about six per cent) and you were most likely self-employed. Fast forward to 2020 and 35 per cent of people spent some of their working week at home, and 21 per cent spent most of their working hours in a home office, spare bedroom or at the kitchen table.
By Professor Roger Wilkins Published on December 5, 2022 Employment and job security took a severe battering as the effects of the pandemic began to take hold in early 2020. The full-time employment rate for men fell to the lowest this century, plummeting to 62.6 per cent, while unemployment rose from four per cent in 2019 to 6.3 per cent in 2020. The arrival of COVID-19 saw the number of people dismissed from their job almost double.
By Professor Antoinette Tordesillas Published on December 5, 2022 For decades, satellites have been keeping a watchful eye on Earth, relaying increasingly precise, detailed and timelier information than ever before. Armed with the right mathematical tools, we can use this information to anticipate and mitigate climate extremes and associated hazards – from floods to landslides. We need algorithms that can process this complex and diverse mix of big data from different satellites.
By Dr Zoe Aitken Published on December 1, 2022 For many people, being able to engage in everyday life is something they take for granted. Gaining employment, finding a place to live and pursuing travel, leisure and social activities become more about ‘which’ movie to see rather than ‘if’ they can access a cinema at all. But for people with a disability – which is one in five Australians – participating in daily life can be blocked by factors like discrimination and poorly designed environments.
By Dr Hamish Clarke Published on November 30, 2022 Wildfire is an ancient, highly diverse and complex phenomenon, not least because of humanity’s own complex relationship with it. Luckily, there are some concepts we can use to simplify things and help us find a way to co-exist with fire. The Earth’s forests and woodlands have an abundance of fire fuel. Picture: Getty ImagesTo evaluate how fire may be affected by changes in climate, land use or management, it is useful to consider the effects on the four key limiting factors of fire.
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