Pricing and promotions continue to be an influential factor in consumer spending behaviour, but there’s a fast-growing segment of values-driven shoppers.
It’s important to see food waste as a challenge for everyone, and use a holistic approach that can modify the entrenched beliefs regarding the practice.
Despite the cost-of-living crisis, Australians are embracing the Christmas spirit, with plans to buy more gifts for friends, and increase the amount they spend.
The cost-of-living crisis is fuelling a surge in shoplifting, and a majority of younger consumers see it as “a little” to “completely” justifiable, a new retail study has found.
How far are Australians on the sustainability journey, and what are their attitudes and behaviours when it comes to engaging in sustainable practices and consumption?
Experimenting with low-waste living shows it’s not easy being green. But householders can help policymakers design better waste management systems.
Season 7 of Monash University’s podcast returns from hiatus with an investigation into food security. How will we feed more people than ever on an ever-warming planet?
Large households throw away mountains of food. In an attempt to stop the waste, a basic idea is showing great promise.
How is the way we currently consume fashion pressuring the environment and supply chains? Where will we find ourselves in 50 years if our behaviours don’t change? And importantly … what will we wear?
Just because we’re in a period of social change doesn’t mean we have to lose momentum on sustainability. There are six things we can do right now to offset our daily waste from disposable masks.
The 2021 Australian Youth Barometer, a survey of more than 500 young Australians aged 18 to 24, reflects the pressures young Australians have been under during COVID-19.
Urban local governments take planetary health into their own hands by encouraging local and sustainable eating.
Cities and regions can capitalise on the benefits of the COVID-induced intercity and intracity migration, but it will require a pivot in planning and design policy.
Nepali temporary migrants have been acutely affected by the COVID pandemic due to their concentration in casualised, precarious work in the healthcare, hospitality and services industries.
While the pandemic has been a blow to women’s rights, new forms of engagement are opening avenues for women to make their voices heard.
This is our last look at the gig economy, but it’s unlikely to be the last time we find ourselves part of it. Our featured experts provide all the best tips to help us make change.
There are clear opportunities in Australia to transform food waste into more valuable products.
An initiative in First Nations communities in Australia's far north flipped the merchandising model, and found stores could successfully sell more nutritious food without losing money.
Takeaway coffee, yes; a stroll through Bunnings, no. The Victorian government has introduced tough stage four business restrictions to crack down on COVID-19 workplace transmission.
The COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to revive manufacturing.
During this time of massive social upheaval, Monash sociologists explore how various community groups are faring.
Why we must look past ‘generational analyses’ of the novel coronavirus impact.
On “What Happens Next?”, host Dr Susan Carland talks to a campaigner who forced a major supermarket to reconsider sustainability, and discovers how marketing research can help organisations do it better.
Academic and presenter Dr Susan Carland discusses the global waste crisis with researchers and behaviour change experts.
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