A free, easy to access telehealth counselling service is being delivered by The University of Queensland to address the exponential rise in mental health issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three researchers from UQ’s Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences have been highlighted in the prestigious international list of 2022 Highly Cited Researchers.
Dr Jessica Spence from UQ’s School of Psychology spoke with Brisbane Times about research which has found accent-based discrimination during job interviews.
The focus a new Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) led by The University of Queensland and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) is to develop the next generation of health researchers and build research collaboratives with urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities nationally.
People from minority groups who speak with ‘non-standard’ accents face discrimination in job interviews, researchers from The University of Queensland have found.