COVID-19

News: COVID-19

Half of surveyed renters suffered mental health decline during COVID-19

Posted on Dec 4 2020 by Crispin Savage

�Ӱ�ֱ��n renters have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 facing income loss, the inability to pay rent, tenure insecurity and eviction risk and a new AHURI publication provides a stark analysis of the impacts of these unprecedented challenges.

New modelling simulates 2021 unemployment rate and incidence of Housing Affordability Stress

Posted on Nov 26 2020 by Robyn Mills

New economic modelling on the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic shows that once COVID-19 government support interventions end, total unemployment in 2021 could peak at 1.752 million under the most severe of three scenarios modelled.

Keeping PACE with skills during and post COVID-19

Posted on Oct 15 2020 by Crispin Savage

Learn Fast, Grow Fast, Adapt Fast – this is the concept behind the new Professional and Continuing Education (PACE) unit at the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide, which is helping �Ӱ�ֱ��ns to reskill and upskill for a rapidly changing world.

Forty per cent of renters can’t afford essentials

Posted on Oct 15 2020 by Robyn Mills

Almost 40% of �Ӱ�ֱ��n tenant households can’t afford essentials such as bills, clothing, transport and food, after paying rent, because their incomes have reduced significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from the �Ӱ�ֱ��n Housing and Urban Research Institute has found.

Adelaide has key role in COVID-19 vaccine human trials

Posted on Sep 21 2020 by David Ellis

�Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide researchers are playing a leading role in the human trials of �Ӱ�ֱ��’s first needle-free, gene-based COVID-19 vaccine.

�Ӱ�ֱ�� staff vote to vary Enterprise Agreement to save jobs

Posted on Aug 19 2020 by Robyn Mills

�Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide staff have voted in support of a variation to their Enterprise Agreement to save 200 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs.

COVID-19 dogs could be sniffing out cases in months

Posted on Jul 30 2020 by Crispin Savage

�Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide researchers are working with international partners to train sniffer dogs to detect COVID-19 infection.

�Ӱ�ֱ��’s COVIDSafe app among safest in the world

Posted on Jul 1 2020 by Crispin Savage

�Ӱ�ֱ��’s COVIDSafe tracing app is one of the best and safest apps of its kind in the world, according to �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide cybersecurity experts who have been exploring the vulnerabilities of people-tracing apps.

Managing COVID-19 infection risk during operations

Posted on Jun 26 2020 by Crispin Savage

Anaesthetists are at higher risk of catching COVID-19 during operations and other interventions than other healthcare workers as anaesthetising a person frequently involves placing breathing tubes or masks into their airway to assist their breathing.

�Ӱ�ֱ�� launches expanded Trimester 3 program

Students at the �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide's North Terrace campus

Posted on Jun 12 2020 by Elisa Black

The �Ӱ�ֱ�� of Adelaide has introduced a significantly expanded program offering for Trimester 3, including a number of programs usually taught only in Semester mode.