English levels 4 and 5

Assignment Research

Find your topic below. Then view the tabs to see recommended academic sources, and searches you can try in Library Search.

Check the Statistics research page to find statistical data on climate change, pollution, sustainability, life expectancy, education, economies. gender equality and work.

You can also search for background information about your topic in an Encyclopedia:

Homelessness

More than a house: Women’s recovery from homelessness in Australia by Phipps, Monique ; Dalton, Lisa ; Maxwell, Hazel ; Cleary, Michelle
Publication date: 2022
‘Red dust homelessness’: Housing, home and homelessness in remote Australia by Zufferey, Carole ; Chung, Donna
Publication date: 2015
Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways by O'Donnell, James
Publication date: 2021

Housing the homeless by Healey, Justin
ISBN: 9781922274533

Publication date: 2022
The Routledge handbook of homelessness by Bretherton, Joanne, & Pleace, Nicholas
Publication date: 2023
The state of homelessness in Australia's cities [report] by Paul Flatau, Katie Tyson, Zoe Callis, Ami Seivwright, Emily Box, Lobna Rouhani, Sze-Wan Ng, Noah Lester, Daniel Firth
Publication date: 2018

Search for more information about homelessness in Library Search

Public Transport

A research agenda for transport policy by Stanley, John ; Hensher, David A
Publication date: 2019
Driving to save time or saving time to drive? The enduring appeal of the private car by Kent, Jennifer L.
Publication date: 2014
Advances in Public Transport Platform for the Development of Sustainability Cities by Corchado, Juan M.
ISBN: 3036539808

Publication date: 2022

Macroscopic road safety impacts of public transport: A case study of Melbourne, Australia by Truong, Long T. ; Currie, Graham
Publication date: 2019
The rush of the rush hour: mobility justice for seniors on public transport in Sydney, Australia by Harada, Theresa ; Birtchnell, Thomas ; Du, Bo
Publication date: 2023
Strategic analysis of public transport coverage by Murray, Alan T.
Publication date: 2001
Benchmarking public transport for international tourists in Queensland cities by Chris De Gruyter, Graham Currie, James Reynolds, Victoria Peel, Yan Yang
Publication date: 2016

Use the search terms "public transport" and the name of your chosen city, for example:

"public transport" AND "gold coast"

Click on the link above to see search results about public transport on the Gold Coast.

Government websites are also useful for public transport reports such as this one for the Gold Coast: Public Transport Plan 2018–2028 (pdf).

Public transport in Library Search

Business

Climate risk and business : new challenges for organizations by Dowbiggin, Anna
Publication date: 2021
Demography and the Global Business Environment by Alfred A. Marcus; Mazhar Islam
ISBN: 9781788112826

Publication date: 2021-11-30
Global Business and Corporate Governance by John Thanopoulos
ISBN: 1606498657

Publication date: 2014-04-15
Challenges in Managing Sustainable Business by Susanne Arvidsson (Editor)
ISBN: 3319932659

Publication date: 2018-10-12

Privacy please: Power distance and people’s responses to data breaches across countries by Madan, Shilpa ; Savani, Krishna ; Katsikeas, Constantine S.
Publication date: 2023
Introduction to the Special Issue: Globalization as a Challenge for Business Responsibilities by Scherer, Andreas Georg ; Palazzo, Guido ; Matten, Dirk
Publication date: 2009
Mind the Gap! The Challenges and Limits of (Global) Business Ethics by Brenkert, George G.
Publication date: 2019

Try searching for the word business and your chosen challenges. Click on the links to see these searches in Library Search:

Business challenges AND ethics

Business challenges AND globalization

Business challenges AND working environment

Business AND environment

Education

The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability by Tania Broadley (Editor); Yuzhuo Cai (Editor); Miriam Firth (Editor); Emma Hunt (Editor); John Neugebauer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781529771848

Publication date: 2023-05-31
Approaches to developing graduate employability in Australia by Judie Kay and Sonia Ferns
Publication date: 2023

In Hansen, S. L., & Daniels, K. (Eds.)
How to enable the employability of university graduates
The Context of Careers Work in Schools by Catherine Hughes
ISBN: 1922117951

Publication date: 2017-10-27

In Muriel, D., & Crawford, G.
Careers Work in Schools, 2017, Vol.1, p.1-5

Work Readiness of New Graduate Physical Therapists for Private Practice in Australia: Academic Faculty, Employer, and Graduate Perspectives by Wells, Cherie ; Olson, Rebecca ; Bialocerkowski, Andrea ; Carroll, Sara ; Chipchase, Lucy ; Reubenson, Alan ; Scarvell, Jennie Mary ; Kent, Fiona
Publication date: 2021
Australian graduates’ work readiness – deficiencies, causes and potential solutions by Prikshat, Verma ; Montague, Alan ; Connell, Julia ; Burgess, John
Publication date: 2020
Graduate employability, employment prospects and work-readiness in the changing field of professional work by Herbert, Ian P. ; Rothwell, Andrew T. ; Glover, Jane L. ; Lambert, Stephanie A.
Publication date: 2020
Preparing young people for the future of work by Kate Torii Megan O’Connell
Publication date: 2017

Click the PDF link to view the full report

It can be useful to try different terminology when you search. Click on the links to try these searches in Library Search:

students AND prepared AND work

graduate AND employability AND Australia

schools AND prepare AND students AND work

Climate

Responding to Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Management: Insights from Australia by Teegavarapu, Ramesh S. V ; Kolokytha, Elpida ; Galvão, Carlos de Oliveira
Publication date: 2020
Food, Nutrition and Agrobiodiversity Under Global Climate Change by Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio
Publication date: 2013
Climate Change and Health by Singer, Merrill ; Shoreman‐ouimet, Eleanor ; Graham, Ashley L
Publication date: 2022

Human mobility, climate change, and health: unpacking the connections by McMichael, Celia
Publication date: 2020
Climate change: an enduring challenge for vector-borne disease prevention and control by Rocklöv, Joacim ; Dubrow, Robert
Publication date: 2020
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being by Pecl et al.
Publication date: 2017

"Climate change" in Library Search

Food and Health

Why is food safety your concern? by CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Csiro Food
Publication date: 2010
Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South by Crush, Jonathan ; Frayne, Bruce ; Haysom, Gareth
Publication date: 2020
Lethal but Legal : Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health by Freudenberg, Nicholas
Publication date: 2021

Editorial: Food safety and public health by Helmy YA, El-Adawy H, Sanad YM, Ghanem M
Publication date: 2023
Pesticides, environment, and food safety by Carvalho, Fernando P.
Publication date: 2017
Nutritional challenges and health implications of takeaway and fast food by Jaworowska, Agnieszka ; Blackham, Toni ; Davies, Ian G ; Stevenson, Leonard
Publication date: 2013

Food safety and public health in Library Search

Australian Indigenous Culture

The Original Australians by Josephine Flood
ISBN: 9781760527075

Publication date: 2019-10-01
Indigenous Australia for Dummies by Larissa Behrendt; Stan Grant (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780730390251

Publication date: 2021-02-17
Circulating cultures : exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media by Harris, Amanda
ISBN: 9781925022193

Publication date: 2014

Indigenous Australian culture in Library Search

Video Games and Social Media

Video Games As Culture by Daniel Muriel; Garry Crawford
ISBN: 9781317223924

Publication date: 2018-03-14
Does Playing Video Games Make Players More Violent? by Barrie Gunter
ISBN: 9781137579850

Publication date: 2016-06-21
How video games impact players : the pitfalls and benefits of a gaming society by Rogers, Ryan
ISBN: 1498513085

Publication date: 2016
Young People, Social Media and Health by Victoria Goodyear (Editor); Kathleen Armour (Editor)
ISBN: 1351026968

Publication date: 2018-11-02

Click on the links to try these searches in Library Search:

"social media"

"video games"

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