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Joanne Flinn, BEc, LLB 1990

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9 Oct 2023: After completing degrees in economics and law, Joanne launched her career consulting for Accenture in Sydney followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) internationally. Joanne is a published author, speaker and strategist who specialises in integrating
University of Tasmania graduate named 2023 Accounting Student of the…

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22 Aug 2023: When University of Tasmania graduate Aloka Sathyangi Senadeera received the national 2023 Accounting Student of the Year award, it marked the culmination of years of dedication to her studies and to Tasmania. The Accountants Daily Accounting Student
Leadership in transforming Sustainability Accounting recognised in…

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4 Dec 2023: Terese Fiedler, a university educator, researcher and the Associate Head of Learning and Teaching for the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, has been recognised in the 2023 Green Gown Awards Australasia for her passion for changing
Accounting for the future

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13 Dec 2023: As businesses around the world respond to the challenges and opportunities of climate change, people in the emerging field of carbon and climate accounting, like Himadri Mayadunne (MBA(I) 2021), are leading the way in sustainable business. “To me,
Residency boosts literary success

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13 Dec 2023: One of the books of the year emerged from the inaugural Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, but author Robbie Arnott gained so much more from the experience. Arnott used the precious time to write his third novel, Limberlost, which this year was
Behavioural insights for a better Tasmania

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/behavioural-insights-for-a-better-tasmania

13 Dec 2023: This year, the University of Tasmania celebrated the launch of the State’s first behavioural insights research lab. The Tasmanian Behavioural Lab is a state-of-the-art facility that conducts research and teaching, and provides businesses,
New research into AI reveals bias against women in leadership

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/new-research-into-ai-reveals-bias-against-women-in-leadership

28 Sep 2023: New research from the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania has revealed that AI-generated content can perpetuate harmful gender biases. Through analysing AI-generated content about what makes a ‘good’ and
Law alumna keen to share career options

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4 May 2023: Hailing from Blackmans Bay, Law alumna Georgina Barnes BEc-LLB(Hons) 2019, AssocDegPhil 2022, is now an Associate specialising in dispute resolution at Baker McKenzie in Sydney. Georgina works across a broad range of the law on matters which are in
Talking Leadership program brings Tasmanian leaders together

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7 Dec 2023: Like most great ideas, Talking Leadership started with good people, good conversation, and – most importantly - a spot of lunch. Dr Toby Newstead, an internationally respected leadership academic at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics,
Innovation all the whey

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13 Dec 2023: They say you should never mix family and business, but alumnus Ryan Hartshorn (BCom 2007) likes to do things differently. After all, the Tasmanian entrepreneur has made his mark turning sheep whey into a world-class tipple. Hartshorn’s success story
New Director for Tasmania Law Reform Institute

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10 Feb 2023: The University of Tasmania’s Jeremy Prichard (BA/LLB ’97, BA Hons ’98, PhD ‘04) has been appointed Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute. "I look forward to working closely with the Institute’s Board to serve Tasmanians through
Many hands help the garden grow at Inveresk

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19 Apr 2023: Since the Community Food Garden at Inveresk was established in 2022, it’s not only been growing food, but a community of people who are gathering, sharing skills and connecting in this new place. A wide variety of vegetables have been harvested by
Learn how to live with fire

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11 Dec 2023: A free, online short course that explores the unpredictability of bushfires and how we live with them is teaching the community how to adapt in a changing climate. Dr Penelope Jones, who developed the short course, said this was a great opportunity
Students to explore cost-of-living at the 2023 Economics Challenge

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16 May 2023: The University of Tasmania is bringing Year 11 and 12 students from around the state together for the 2023 Economics Challenge to learn about the value of economics. This year’s Challenge, hosted by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics,
Tasmania’s 2024 Rhodes Scholar has already started giving back

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3 Nov 2023: As schools emerged from the COVID lockdowns, Billy Blackett saw a universal problem – students were struggling with the impacts of the pandemic on their learning. He turned his entrepreneurial and altruistic spirit to the problem. What was a
Moira Finch, Prof Honours (Leadership HHS) 2021

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9 Oct 2023: “People caring for people” is a mission statement that rings true for Moira Finch, who this year took up her dream job as CEO of Port Macquarie Private Hospital, a service she is passionate about. Moira was appointed to the top job having worked
Tasmania’s first Professor of English celebrated

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20 Jan 2023: He was Tasmania’s first Professor of English, but William Henry Williams was also the only lecturer in the subject for the first three decades of the University’s life. Williams was one of just three academics hired as the entire teaching staff
Starting the conversation at the College of Business and Economics

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/starting-the-conversation-at-the-college-of-business-and-economics

22 Sep 2023: For many people, starting a conversation with someone new can be intimidating and awkward and will often push them out of their comfort zone. Add topics like career or networking to the equation and it can be game over. However, networking is an
From dispensing pills to filling stills

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8 Aug 2023: For Wendy Steinberg, it was the desire for a new challenge, a love of science and a need to just ‘make something’ that set her on a journey from pharmacist to working for Tasmania’s iconic Lark Distillery. After 12 years in pharmacy, Wendy knew
Antarctic researcher wins prestigious Fellowship to study in the US

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10 Feb 2023: A University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) graduate has won a prestigious Quad Fellowship to investigate the historic impacts of climate change on glacial melting in Antarctica. Mika Bighin has arrived in the United
Behavioural lab to uncover vital insights for Tasmania

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14 Feb 2023: Tasmania’s first behavioural insights research lab will be launched in Hobart today at the University of Tasmania. The Tasmanian Behavioural Lab will provide businesses, not-for-profits, and government departments across the state with access to
Spotlight on Yvette Maker, Senior Lecturer in Law

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3 May 2023: Dr Yvette Maker is a Senior Lecturer in Law and her work focuses on the disability- and gender-related dimensions of law, policy and practice. Yvette has expertise across the fields of human rights law, disability and mental health law, consumer law,
Clarice Chan, LLB 2011

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16 Oct 2023: Law alum Clarice Chan’s hard work and passionate advocacy have led to change at the highest levels of Malaysia’s judiciary. Since completing a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Tasmania in 2011, she has established a distinguished legal
Undergraduate certificates for a changing business world

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18 Dec 2023: When the world changes around us, it is important that our opportunities to learn and grow change too. That’s why the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics has worked with industry and professionals to develop a series of new, intensive
Education alumna’s placement turned into flood relief

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26 Jun 2023: Tegan McDougall (BEd 2023) never expected her teaching degree to include sandbagging and delivering supplies to flood victims. But that’s just what happened when the rural Victorian town Tegan was undertaking her final teaching placement in was
Tax Time Tips from the Tax Clinic

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28 Jun 2023: As we bid farewell to the 2022-23 financial year, the Director of the University of Tasmania Tax Clinic, Donovan Castelyn, has some top tips for people seeking guidance and support at tax time. While the end of financial year brings about sales,
River’s Edge building opens in Launceston

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/rivers-edge-campus-building-opens-in-launceston

28 Jul 2023: The University of Tasmania’s new Launceston campus has reached a milestone today (Friday, 28 July) with the opening of the River’s Edge, a state-of-the-art learning and teaching facility for students and staff in the North. Vice-Chancellor
Accountancy and the path to net zero

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8 May 2023: Accountancy has a reputation as a backroom – perhaps even a boring – profession. But that’s all changing. Accountants are leading and guiding organisations dealing with the climate crisis, helping to create a better future for us and coming
From TB to COVID-19 and back again

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13 Dec 2023: Dr Clare Smith’s face is beaming. She’s standing in front of a small silver plaque fastened to a white brick wall. Underneath the name of her department, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, are two words that signal the start of a new chapter in
Mastering Accounting took Lewis from Malaysia to Tasmania via Coventry

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29 Nov 2023: As a child growing up in Malaysia, Lewis Ooi always knew he wanted to experience life in a western country. And, ultimately, it was a semester studying in the UK that put him on his path to studying his Master of Professional Accounting at the
Voon Aoon Chin, BE (Electronics & Communications) 1995

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14 Jun 2023: In health care, less visible does not mean less critical. This is the case for Voon Aoon Chin, Director of Biomedical Engineering in the Sydney Local Heath District. His role puts him at the coalface of the New South Wales public healthcare system,
Blacksmith and sculptor Pete Mattila on witnessing transformation

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/blacksmith-and-sculptor-pete-mattila-on-witnessing-transformation

4 Apr 2023: When US born sculptor and blacksmith Pete Mattila (BCA Hons 2010, MFA 2013) forges steel into art he witnesses transformation – and it is the magic of that that has kept him so passionate about his craft. “It’s like a little journey we’re
Nicola Maddern, BPharm 2010

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13 Nov 2023: Nicola (Nicky) Maddern describes her role in establishing the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) pharmacy service in Tasmania as the greatest achievement of her working life. The vital role she played in establishing the service, first as project lead,
International consortium honours work across Indigenous education

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9 Mar 2023: Associate Professor Clair Andersen, who has spent a lifetime promoting education opportunities for Australia’s First Nations people, has been recognised for those efforts on an international stage. She has been inducted to the World Indigenous
Spotlight on Kim Beasy, Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/spotlight-on-kim-beasy,-senior-lecturer-in-curriculum-and-pedagogy

26 Jun 2023: Dr Kim Beasy specialises in education for sustainability. Kim’s teaching and research engage diverse communities in the social, environmental, economic and cultural dimensions of sustainability. She seeks to inform and show how transitions toward
North-West local takes the reins as new Cradle Coast Pro…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/north-west-local-takes-the-reins-as-new-cradle-coast-pro-vice-chancellor

19 Jun 2023: From an early age, Associate Professor Sonya Stanford knew she wanted to attend university to forge a positive future for herself and others. Born in Devonport, she’s a proud North-West local who has experienced the barriers and challenges of
Spotlight on Cleo Hansen-Lohrey, Lecturer in Law

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22 Aug 2023: Cleo is a Lecturer in Law and coordinates the administrative law and civil procedure units in the undergraduate law degree. Cleo is also a co-coordinator of the Law Honours program and a convenor of the faculty’s International Law Discussion Group.
Daniel Edwards' (BEd 2013) Infectious STEM teaching fires a new…

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14 Jul 2023: Daniel Edwards (BEd 2013) is passionate about STEM (Science Technology and Engineering and Maths) and it’s infectious. At his North-West primary school, Montello, in Burnie, 60 students attend an afterschool club called Code Club – where they
Dr Zakiya Leeming, BCA(Hons) 2005

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13 Sep 2023: The sounds of science There’s art and there’s science, but the magic that happens when the two work together is another thing altogether. In Zakiya Leeming’s current project the beauty of chamber opera pays homage to the development of the
River's Edge opens at Inveresk

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13 Dec 2023: River’s Edge has opened in Inveresk, transforming the experience of studying and working at the University in Launceston. Members of the public, too, are invited to use the quintessentially Launceston building which, through outstanding
Plan bee, C and D: more alternatives may have a role to play in…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/plan-bee,-c-and-d-more-alternatives-may-have-a-role-to-play-in-pollination-process

30 Mar 2023: While bumblebees are a feral species, they have proven to be effective pollinators that researchers are keen to learn more about. First discovered in a garden in the inner Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay in 1992, it is thought the bumblebee arrived from
Professor Craig Johnson

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10 Feb 2023: BSc Hons 1980University of Tasmania ecologist and alumnus Professor Craig Johnson has spent his career underwater. He has dived under the ice with the navy in Canada, studied the rich kelp forests off South Africa, and researched the crown-of-thorns
Six steps towards achieving sustainability goals

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8 May 2023: For many years our University has been working hard to deliver more sustainable outcomes for Tasmania, and from Tasmania to the world. We know that our mission is a pressing one. Now is the time to create a society based on a climate positive and
Space probe JUICE in line of sight for Tassie telescopes

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21 Sep 2023: Ten years of preparation led University of Tasmania space scientist Dr GuifrÃ Molera CalvÃs from the School of Natural Sciences to a career highlight. The researcher is among dozens of scientists across the world contributing to the European Space
From the north-west to wolves and a career in STEM

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8 Mar 2023: I grew up in a farming community on the far north-west coast of Tasmania, from a place few people have heard of: Nabageena. When I was in my mid-teens in the late 1980s, and thinking about going to university, my pop - and patriarch of our farming
Australians pay $163 a month on average to store all the stuff we buy …

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10 Jan 2023: Many of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of A$163 per month on self-storage, one recent survey found. The number one item stored in these
Healthy soil, healthy stock

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10 Feb 2023: Greenhams’ far manager Aiden Coombe is Circular Head born and bred. The region includes some of Tasmania’s most productive farming properties and Circular Head is well known for its reliable rainfall and fertile green pastures. The area supports
AI could take your job, but it can also help you score a new one with …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/ai-could-take-your-job,-but-it-can-also-help-you-score-a-new-one-with-these-simple-tips

14 Mar 2023: It was once thought physical labour jobs would be the most at risk from the rise of artificial intelligence. But recent advances suggest we can expect disruption across a vast range of sectors, including knowledge-based industries. We certainly need
Are nudges sinister psychological tricks? Or are they useless?…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/are-nudges-sinister-psychological-tricks-or-are-they-useless-actually-they-are-neither

13 Jan 2023: Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions – has been one of the most popular ideas to emerge from economics in the past two decades. But nudging is now under attack, entangled in
International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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9 Feb 2023: Communities around the world will observe International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Saturday 11 February 2023. This year’s focus is the contribution of women in science to tackling the UN sustainable development goals; working towards