christmas

Woman hugging elderly man at the Christmas dinner table

With a little forward planning and by keeping things flexible, everyone can enjoy end-of-year celebrations.

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Burnout and overwork can sometimes feel synonymous with the leadup to Christmas and other festive holidays. But what can you (and your boss) do to reduce this?

Christmas stress

Christmas can be stressful for a variety of reasons. Reduce your stress by applying these helpful techniques.  

A lightbox with message 'bye bye 2020' alongside two surgical masks

Christmas may not be cancelled, but it will certainly be different to any before, say leading COVID-19 experts.

Christmas table setting

A psychologist weighs in on why our brain tells us to overeat during the holidays – and how we can manage those signals.

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Season’s greetings from the UNSW Newsroom. The University is closed for the Christmas/New Year break and will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January.

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The staff at the award-winning UNSW Bookshop share their recommended reading lists for Christmas 2017.

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While it’s nice to imagine tents, water tanks and food parcels being rushed to a far flung village beset by misfortune this Christmas, it could be of dubious value, argues David Sanderson.

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Work parties, Christmas feasts and New Year’s Eve binges. Nutrition expert Rebecca Reynolds offers five tips to avoid a belly like Santa’s this festive season.