Acumen

The way a patient experiences their journey of care through the health system is critically important not only to the quality of life for the individual involved, but also the effectiveness, cost and community support for the care system that delivered it.

On 7 April 2022 the RMIT Digital CBD research team released a report proposing DAO pilots for Melbourne. In short, for ten years we have spoken about smart cities as public-private partnerships (PPP). Say between Cisco or IBM and the city of Melbourne. Today DAOs can offer non-hierarchical data governance models.

As a large number of retail investors rushed into financial markets during the pandemic, finfluencers have also enjoyed growing popularity in Australia. Finfluencers talk about investment trends and options on social media and there are ongoing concerns that they may mislead novice investors. Finfluencers have just received a wake up call from ASIC, which is likely to bring some of their business to an end.

Unlike children, adolescents take control over what they eat and how they spend their money. To remain healthy, they have to exercise self-control – forego the immediate pleasure of high-calorie foods for the prospect of being healthy in the future. These eating habits, established early on in life, tend to stay with individuals later on in their lives, contributing to the obesity epidemic. In Australia, one in four children (25%) are overweight or obese and it is predicted to increate to one in three by 2025.

As social restrictions have eased, many businesses have already had, or are now starting to have, conversations with their people about returning to the workplace. However, it’s unlikely that we will be returning to what we were used to prior to the wave of lockdowns.

Two of Netflix’s top trending series, Inventing Anna and The Tinder Swindler retell the true stories of convicted con artists, who fleeced their victims through the well-established ruse of presenting as members of high society.

The current organising drive at Starbucks stores across the USA illustrates both the difficulty for unions in countering the power of multinational companies – and, more importantly, the momentum that can be generated when workers decide they want to contest that power through collective action.

Australia is once again falling short of its international obligations - this time with respect to the Optional Protocol Against the Prevention of Torture (OPCAT).

Some of the worst human rights conditions globally are found in Rajasthan’s stone quarries. In 2013, our team conducted fieldwork in this very dry, rocky and mineral rich state of India. Since then, the UK and Australia have enacted Modern Slavery Acts. In an article in the Journal of Industrial Relations co-authored with Dr Tim Connor and Associate Professor Fiona Haines, we explored whether the legislation will help the workers we interviewed.

Will Australia's Prime Minister return from Glasgow's COP26 climate conference motivated to guide Australian businesses towards net zero carbon emissions?

The rapid rate of vaccine development and distribution is nothing short of miraculous. More than 5.6 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 73 doses for every 100 people. Yet, distribution has been marred by inequality. While some countries reached a vaccination rate that allowed citizens to resume something close to normal life in relative safety at the start of 2021, 24 countries are yet to vaccinate 1% of the population in September 2021.

There are three things that are important in finance: Money; Time; and Risk. If you understand how those three things fit together you understand finance. Of course … things are a bit more complicated than that.

Caught out by its strategy to bet on COVID-19 vaccines that could be made in Australia, the federal government is now scrambling to manufacture mRNA vaccines locally.

Getting around an Australian city without a car can be a real hassle. Imagine how much easier it would be if you had the option of combining public transport and shared services — be it bus, train, tram, taxi, car share, electric bicycle or e-scooter — and could book and pay for the lot using a single app.

Now that the Olympic buzz has settled, there are a few valuable lessons to be learned from the world’s top athletes that could help the rest of us.

As the COVID19 pandemic has highlighted, digital engagement is crucial in fostering social inclusion. Our research investigates older adults’ perceptions of risk associated with digital engagement.

Money, doughnuts and beer. As high-tech and effective as our COVID vaccines are, getting enough people to take them to achieve herd immunity may come down to some very Homer Simpson-esque tools of persuasion.

The Australian government’s new national vaccination advertisements have been described as exciting as a bowl of leftover cereal, with all the urgency of a stubbed toe. “It will be very difficult for Shaun Micallef to send this ad up,” said Opposition leader Anthony Albanese when asked about them on Sunday morning television.

Personality is not fixed and instead can change across someone’s lifespan. In our earlier posts, we discussed why and how personality can change and in particular, how such change can be driven by our work experiences.

Personality can change, and it can be changed by one’s work experiences. In a previous blog post, Dr. Lena Wang and I discussed why personality can change, how our work experiences can shape personality change, and how we can actively engage in certain activities to shape our personality development journey.