In the spotlight
Throughout 2020, Graduate School academics took an active role in the community response to COVID-19, providing expert commentary and practical advice to students, teachers and families as they dealt with the rapid pace of change.
Life Beyond Coronavirus
Professor Janet Clinton on The University of Melbourne's Life Beyond Coronavirus webinar series
Hack Investigates: Does a uni degree help me get a job?
Megan O’Connell talks to
Triple J’s Hack
The family lockdown guide: how to emotionally prepare for coronavirus quarantine
Professor Lea Waters in The Guardian
Dr Gosia Klatt was interviewed on Polsat News (24-hour Polish national news television channel) about how Australian schools were dealing with online learning, managing access to technology, as well as the legacy of distance education in Australia.
Navigating our future through literature
Associate Professor Larissa McLean Davies on Big Ideas, ABC Radio National
'It's not about you': A guide for Victorians and non-Victorians in conversation
Associate Professor Peggy Kern in The Age and associated Nine newspapers
Dr Chelsea Hyde on Nine News
Still working from home? Time to start the ‘fake commute’
Associate Professor Terry Bowles in and associated Nine newspapers
‘How can we best help the kids through this crisis? We asked the experts’
Professor Lea Waters talks to The Project, Channel 10
Our children play more online games than ever. Here's how you can take a more active role as a parent
Dr Alex Bacalja in
The Guardian
Teaching Indigenous histories to inform the future
Dr Melitta Hogarth talks to Hilary Harper on Life Matters, ABC Radio National
Dr Matt Harrison on ABC NewsRadio
The secrets of secrets revealed by psychologist
Professor Lea Waters on
This Weekend Life, ABC
Have you been enjoying the hermit life of iso?
Associate Professor Terry
Bowles with Patricia Karvelas
on RN Drive, ABC
Coronavirus pandemic pressure eased by children's chalk messages and letters of thanks
Dr Chelsea Hyde on
ABC News Online
The Project's
Family Survival Guide
Professor Lea Waters appeared on The Project, Channel 10
Fires then COVID-19: The struggle to cope with 2020's disasters
Professor Lindsay Oades and the Talking Teaching podcast mentioned in The Canberra Times and the ACM newspaper network
Concerns young people to be profoundly affected by covid-19 economic fallout for years to come
Associate Professor Hernan Cuervo with Sinead Mangan on Australia Wide, ABC
Demystifying the International Baccalaureate
Professor Fazal Rizvi with Geraldine Doogue on Saturday Extra, ABC Radio National
Aussie rules: what study can teach us
Dr Daniela Acquaro and Dr Natasha Ziebell in the Irish Mail
The kids are alright: young adult post-disaster novels can teach us about trauma and survival
Dr Troy Potter in
The Conversation