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Resilience, humour, hardship and tragedy – a unique survey reveals how ordinary New Zealanders coped during one of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns.
People tend to pay attention when things get personal, so you need to know how climate change is damaging things in your life.
For so many people, Christmas movies are a link with a happy and safe childhood home.
The music we choose to listen to not only allows us to retreat into a place of peace and privacy, but also helps frame our daily routines and interactions with others.
With space at a premium, robotic furniture can transform a room in seconds. How will this affect our sense of belonging and feeling at home, when everything can change with a voice command?
The typical American’s annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
Your identity changes when you move house and, if that’s to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
Housing policy needs to prioritise housing’s function as a home, rather than an asset.
Think moving won’t change you? You might want to rethink that. To feel ‘at home’ you need to accept the new place where you live as part of your changing identity.
Young people can make big savings living with their parents, but it throws up some thorny issues.
Home can be a slippery concept. But psychologists have long understood that it plays a huge role in self-identity and emotional well-being.
The company has made the world flat (packed).
The latest 2016 Census data assesses what the national home ownership and rental rates are and how these vary location. It also gives us a picture of mortgage and rental costs.
A host of spaces that were once immune to commercial intrusion – from parks to our friendships – are now being infiltrated by advertisers. Are we being enslaved by a ‘merciless master’?
Crime is declining, but people are getting more and more defensive about their homes.
Changing home causes more than just social upheavel for youngsters.
It’s the best time to make a fresh start.
There’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach. But a lot of little things – from colors to appliance noise – can make a big difference.
Huntsman spiders deserve a place alongside koalas and kangaroos as iconic Australian wildlife.
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Reader in Contemporary Media Practice, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor, Human Resources, Thompson Rivers University
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Fellow, University College Cork
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PhD student in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Services Research, Swansea University
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Research officer, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, University of Bath
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Ph.D. Candidate in Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
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Adjunct academic, mycology, Flinders University
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Course Director, Design (Course Leader, Industrial Design; Product & Transport), University of Staffordshire
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Energy Advisor, formerly, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Veterinary and Molecular Parasitology, University of Sydney