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    Teaching careers attracting high achievers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/871-teaching-careers-attracting-high-achievers
    4 Jun 2019: Jordan Green, a Master of Teaching student based at the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus in Hobart, was inspired by his own high school experience to pursue a career in teaching. “Throughout high school, I had some really good teachers
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    Steering tech in the right direction

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/911-steering-tech-in-the-right-direction
    21 Aug 2019: For Molly Steer, raising the profile of women in STEM is a cause close to her heart- and one she was able to pass on to the next generation of students at the Big Day In tech event on the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus. “I'm a huge
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    Turning fiction into a PhD

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/966-turning-fiction-into-a-phd
    28 Nov 2019: Writer and psychotherapist, Liz Evans has taken her professional experience and love of domestic noir novels into her Creative Writing PhD research, which involves writing a novel as well as a thesis. I’m looking at how contemporary psychological
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    The jet-setting teacher

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/939-the-jet-setting-teacher
    2 Oct 2019: You might not expect to find your future career in the middle of a Vietnamese holiday, but that’s the way things worked out for Kate Dewar. “I had a couple of years off after college and I volunteered as an English teacher in Vietnam, which was
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    Changing course for a new career

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/851-changing-course-for-a-new-career
    10 Apr 2019: It’s never too late to change career direction, according to University of Tasmania graduate Rebecca Foxen who, after a decade working as a lawyer, has returned to study with her sights set on working as a paramedic. Rebecca is on the verge of
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    Why plastic plants are blooming on campus

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/898-why-plastic-plants-are-blooming-on-campus
    31 Jul 2019: Banner image: Growing Seed Point 1, by Dr Linda Erceg. Big, twisting leafy vines made from irrigation pipe and cable ties are the newest addition to a growing art installation project at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk campus. Artist and
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    When the stars align

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/906-when-the-stars-align
    19 Aug 2019: As a Registered Nurse, a soldier, and a student, Nev Stott is used to overcoming obstacles. So when an “unexpected hiccup” came during his Bachelor of Paramedic Practice and he was deployed to Iraq, but he still managed to finish his studies. Nev,
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    Economics with experience

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/942-economics-with-experience
    7 Oct 2019: Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in the nineteenth century that economics was ‘the dismal science” because of its pessimistic outlook for mankind. But for University of Tasmania Economics Honours graduate Peter Legg, it’s anything but
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    From Hobart to The Hague

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/941-from-hobart-to-the-hague
    20 Sep 2019: Matias Thomsen has helped put war criminals on trial in The Hague, taught children in Greek refugee camps, assisted asylum seekers at Pontville Detention Centre, and become an expert in international humanitarian law along the way. But when he
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    Why "witch" isn’t a dirty word

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/843-why-witch-isnt-a-dirty-word
    28 Mar 2019: PhD student and author Sam George-Allen thinks that while “witch” is a gendered term, it’s not necessarily an insult. This is one of the issues she explores in her new book Witches: What Women Do Together. “The word ‘witch’ isn’t

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