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Teacher readiness for generative AI:A Theory of Planned Behaviour approach
No full textAs generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools become increasingly integrated into educational contexts, teacher readiness to adopt these technologies has emerged as a critical factor shaping their impact. This study investigates teacher readiness for GenAI adoption using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a theoretical framework, focusing on the constructs of attitude, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norms. Positioned within a quantitative research paradigm, the study utilised a cross-sectional survey design and a structured questionnaire to examine teachers' beliefs and practices. A jurisdiction-wide survey of 111 teachers in the Australian Capital Territory was conducted to explore their beliefs, abilities, experiences, and concerns related to GenAI. A quantitative analytical approach was adopted, and Principal Component Analysis identified four readiness dimensions: integration skills, perceived threats, perceived opportunities, and classroom use. These mapped to TPB as follows: perceived behavioural control was reflected in teachers' confidence using GenAI for lesson design, collaboration, and student interaction; attitudes were bifurcated into enthusiasm for GenAI's potential to reduce workload and support innovation, and concern over its risks to student autonomy, social-emotional learning, and teacher roles; subjective norms did not emerge as a distinct factor, indicating limited institutional guidance or peer consensus. Gender-based differences were noted, with female teachers expressing higher optimism and ethical awareness. The findings highlight the complexity of GenAI adoption, where professional confidence interacts with deep pedagogical and ethical caution. This study contributes new empirical evidence and theoretical insights into how teachers conceptualise and respond to GenAI, offering implications for professional learning, policy development, and future research. It also suggests refinements to TPB when applied to emerging technologies characterised by rapid change, ethical ambiguity, and uncertain pedagogical value.</p
Women's recreational walking preferences in urban streets: A structural equation modeling approach
No full textWomen’s walkability in urban spaces is increasingly recognized as vital to urban livability and social sustainability, ensuring equitable access to public space and fostering everyday interaction. Despite growing attention to walking behaviors, few studies comprehensively examine how perceptual-visual, sociocultural, and built environment factors shape women’s walking preferences, especially in contexts with strong traditions and patriarchal norms. Drawing on feminist geography and mobility justice, this study frames women’s walking as embedded in spatial politics and gendered power relations. To explore this, a survey was conducted with 250 women along three main streets radiating from Tajrish Square, a politically and culturally significant urban node in Tehran. This contested space, marked by gender visibility and civic symbolism, offers a rich setting to investigate the interplay of urban form, visual perception, and sociocultural dynamics. Data were collected via standardized questionnaires and analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling to assess relationships among latent constructs. Space Syntax analysis further evaluated street network configuration and connectivity, clarifying how urban form affects movement and accessibility. Findings reveal perceptual-visual factors had the strongest direct impact on walking preferences (β = 0.354), followed by sociocultural (β = 0.328) and built environment factors (β = 0.243). Indirect effects via sociocultural mediation were similar for perceptual-visual (β = 0.158) and built environment factors (β = 0.156). The total effect of perceptual-visual (β = 0.513) and built environment factors (β = 0.399) underscores the mediating role of sociocultural variables. Overall, the study highlights women’s walking as both a sustainable mobility practice and a socio-political act, deeply rooted in the spatial and symbolic fabric of the city
Dossier:Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value
No full textIn the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate as a ‘site struggle’ – pulled between complex negotiations of capital and culture. If in the 20th century, scholars were interested in teasing out the value(s) of television to argue for its potential contribution to socio-cultural transformation, in the 21st century, questions of television’s value(s) and potentialities have become even more critical – and vexing. This dossier brings together the research and reflections of scholars variously tackling questions of television’s value in the contemporary moment.</p
Australian sport policy and advocacy: an historical account of policy evolution, government involvement, and the advent of lobbying
No full textVarious factors have influenced the evolution of Australian sport policy, including war and the importance of national health. Historically, the involvement of the Australian federal government was sporadic, and policy decisions were subject to prevailing political agendas. Within that context, moves toward consistent sport policy were influenced by the initially indirect and, more latterly, direct influence of lobbying. This paper explores the processes that shaped Australian sport policy, including the burgeoning role of advocacy. Examining sport as government policy, the paper is organised into four thematic sections, commencing with background on policy, followed by an outline of sport policy post-federation leading up to the early 1970s, then a review of developments post-1970, and concluding with an outline of the development of lobbying. Methodologically, literature, including journal articles, books, government documents, Hansard, and “grey” material, formed the basis of a narrative review to illuminate the four themes. The findings point to an evolutionary process that elevated sport to a significant policy consideration, with various elements such as fitness, health, and international sporting success becoming essential to the architects of sport policy. Within that framework, the role of advocacy developed to significant effect but more recently, lobbying in sport policy has become subject to the vicissitudes of political interest and commercial influences, creating a void in the policy process.</p
What do the PHQ-9, the GAD-7 and their variants miss in assessing young people presenting to youth mental health services?
No full textBrief self-report measures offer significant benefits in youth mental health services by providing quick, efficient, and accessible assessment of mental health status. In this study, we describe the psychometric features of the Patient Health Questionnaire–9 (PHQ-9), the Generalised Anxiety Disorder–7 (GAD-7) and their shorter variants in 1063 young people at their first appointment to headspace youth primary care mental health services. Specific aims were to: (i) document the internal consistency, dimensionality, and measurement invariance for sex and age (12–14, 15–17, 18–21, 22–25 years) for the PHQ-9 and GAD-7; (ii) compare the full and shorter variants of the measures; and (iii) determine construct validity by correlating variants with measures of psychological distress, rumination, functioning, and quality of life. Two-factor models, comprising cognitive-affective and somatic symptom domains, best represented the dimensionality of both the PHQ-9 and GAD-7; measurement invariance for these models was found for sex and age-group. The PHQ-2, GAD-2, and PHQ-4 correlated strongly with the full versions of these measures and had strong internal consistency. Construct validity was noted for all variants of the PHQ-9 and GAD-7. As young people can present with high rates of somatic symptoms, we encourage clinicians and researchers to use subscale in addition to total scores for the PHQ-9 and GAD-7. We also caution the use of the shorter variants of these scales given they do not include somatic symptom items.</p
Dossier:Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value
No full textIn the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate as a ‘site struggle’ – pulled between complex negotiations of capital and culture. If in the 20th century, scholars were interested in teasing out the value(s) of television to argue for its potential contribution to socio-cultural transformation, in the 21st century, questions of television’s value(s) and potentialities have become even more critical – and vexing. This dossier brings together the research and reflections of scholars variously tackling questions of television’s value in the contemporary moment.</p
Circumpolar Deep Water upwelling is a primary source of 10Be in Antarctic continental shelf sediments
No full textBeryllium-10 (10Be) has been proposed as a potential proxy for investigating ice shelf presence and absence, or meltwater discharge in coastal polar environments. However, the sources and distribution of atmospherically produced meteoric-10Be in the Antarctic marine realm are yet to be fully characterized, making any inferences about its concentration in sediments challenging. We present a dataset of 9Be and 10Be concentrations, and 10Be/9Be ratios in seafloor surface sediments from the Antarctic continental shelf - including from sub ice shelf cores - to assess the sources and processes contributing Be-isotopes to ice-sheet proximal marine settings. We show that upwelling waters (e.g. Circumpolar Deep Water) are a significant source of 10Be to continental shelf sediments. This limits the use of 10Be/9Be as a proxy for ice shelf environment or meltwater discharge, but instead provides a potential proxy for reconstructing Circumpolar Deep Water incursions onto Antarctic continental shelves