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Pathways to success: unravelling the nexus of personal finance and Indigenous academic completions
Indigenous Australian students continue to encounter persistent barriers within academia that impede their completion rates. However, the number of Indigenous peoples enrolling in university degrees has been increasing over the years. Despite witnessing an improvement in completion rates, the number of Indigenous students graduating are still low when compared with a larger number of enrolments.There are a multitude of barriers that Indigenous university students continue to encounter including racism and access to adequate financial assistance. This project focusses on the …
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
Understanding how self-image and compassionate goals affect well-being in a social media context
There is increasing concern about the negative impact of social media use on well-being. To understand its impact, we need to move beyond simple conceptualisations of social media use and utilise strong research methods to understand the role that psychological processes play in producing positive and negative impacts. There is preliminary evidence that interpersonal goals play an important role in predicting how people use and experience social media. Self-image goals involve trying to convey a desirable image of oneself to …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Psychology and Counselling
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