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Asked by anon-354955 on 8 Mar 2023.
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Kirsten Russell answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Some of my research focused on violence and how we can prevent people from harming others. I look to see if giving people information or teaching them certain skills will make it less likely that they get involved in violence. It is really exciting when your research shows that this works, because this means we can support the people who are involved in violence to have more positive lives, and also means that it is less likely that other people will be harmed by the violence.
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Greta Defeyter answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Probably the most exciting things (I have two) are 1) I found that children as young as 3 years of age have an understanding of ownership (i.e. that an object can belong to another person). Also that ownership brings rights (e.g. you should not destroy the property of another). Secondly, exciting but also alarming was that I was the first person to write about holiday hunger (i.e. when children go hungry across the school holidays because they don’t get free school meals).
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Eileen Xu answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Some work I did in the past that was really exciting was learning that not only can you measure someone’s age from brain scans and blood markers, but that these biological ways of measuring age don’t always match up to your actual age! Even more interesting was then finding out that if your “biological age” was a lot older than your actual age, then you are more likely to have physical health issues and depression.
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Joanne Cummings answered on 21 Mar 2023:
Just simply listening to and offering students support, can assist in their development of their own self-belief in their ability and capacity to achieve.
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