Australia’s teachers need to do more to protect their LGBTIQA+ students from bullying and harassment, new research says. Researchers from the University of South Australia asked over 400 teachers about how they chose to intervene in bullying incidents against sexually ...
More »Teachers want more classes outside, new research shows
Teachers feel ‘immense pressure’ juggling the curriculum and wish to run more classes outside in nature, a new study has shown. Researchers from South Australia interviewed a dozen primary school teachers and principals about their experiences with outdoor learning. The ...
More »Storytelling triples resilience among at-risk kids
A new study has found that reading out loud to at-risk children can triple their resilience before they start school. Researchers from the University of South Australia took data from over 60,000 kids aged between 5 and 6, focusing on ...
More »Outside school care needs ‘more exercise, fewer screens’: new guidelines
Outside school hours care (OSHC) provides an invaluable service to parents in the community, allowing more flexibility in being able to juggle their professional and family lives. However, research shows that 31-79 per cent of OSHC sessions are sedentary, giving ...
More »New research on period pain among young women shows significant impacts on attendance and performance
A new study of 4,202 young Australian women has found that more than a third of respondents have recently missed a whole day of school or university due to period paid, while roughly half said their period pain had affected ...
More »Starting young for a dementia-friendly future
To improve dementia understanding, Australia needs to invest in the next generation. UniSA’s Dr Ashleigh Smith, a cognitive ageing expert, said this is because children are the nation’s future leaders, local shop keepers, bankers and neighbours. “Children generally don’t know ...
More »New study finds parents often confuse bullying with fighting
A recent study by Dr Lesley-Anne Ey of UniSA and Professor Marilyn Campbell of the Queensland University of Technology revealed that only a fraction of parents can accurately describe what bullying is. As part of the study titled ‘Do Parents ...
More »What do Australian teachers think of bullying in schools?
A new study involving nearly 1700 students and teachers has challenged the long-held idea that teachers underplay the seriousness and extent of bullying in their schools. Parents of children who have been bullied have “probably been tempted” or even asked ...
More »Researchers call for a ‘national response’ to harmful sexual behaviours among children
A newly released book by Dr Lesley-Ann Ey and Professor Elspeth McInnes of UniSA is pushing for a national, coordinated response to growing rates of children’s harmful sexual behaviours, or HSB. However, a key problem they’ve identified in addressing the ...
More »Severe bullying not improved by school interventions: new research
A new study using data from 223 student surveys across 24 Australian schools has found that school interventions did not help to resolve severe cases of bullying and group bullying. UniSA’s Professor Ken Rigby found that school interventions “reduced or ...
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