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UQ graduate and journalist Andrew Kidd Fraser reflects on his time at university during a period of political change, and tells why UQ was still the place to be as Brisbane fought to shake itself from its dull slumber.

The Australian music industry needs a lifeline. Contact Magazine spoke with UQ’s School of Music Senior Lecturer, Dr Eve Klein, and UQ graduate and music venue owner, Scott Hutchinson, about the future of Australia’s live music scene post-pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented financial impact on most Australians.

The ABC Radio's flagship Indigenous affairs program, Speaking Out is celebrating 30 years on air.

In collaboration with leading Australian art music ensemble Ensemble Offspring and author Elaine Kelly, Dr Eve Klein from the School of Music has launched her new artwork Another Future, where she is calling for people around the nation to submit stories about home as a means of reflecting on climate change.

A job with the United Nations in her home country of Mongolia is the likely result of years of hard work for University of Queensland Masters graduate Soyolmaa Dolgor.The Masters in Communication for Social Change graduate plans to apply her newly learned skills in critical thinking in her new position.

The impacts of COVID-19 on governments and their efforts toward atrocity prevention will be a new focus for The University of Queensland’s Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

When the dust clears and global isolation restrictions are eventually rolled back, we will emerge into a post-pandemic world that will likely be very different to the one we left behind. But beyond the immediate social and economic fallout, what will be the global political consequences of COVID-19? UQ student and Contact magazine contributor Zoe McDonald interviewed experts from the School of Political Science and International Studies to analyse the situation.

A partnership between public and not-for-profit agencies has adopted a proven strategy to permanently end homelessness for people sleeping rough in Brisbane.

However an increase in the supply of social housing in the city is needed to ensure the strategy reaches its full potential, according to University of Queensland researchers.

Centre for Policy Futures Director Brian Head shares his thoughts in this Apolitical piece on how to foster conditions that build and protect evidence-informed policy-making in contemporary democratic systems of governance.

Survey results reveal positive outcomes from pandemic

A global study on mental health has found approximately one in five teenagers experience thoughts of suicide or anxiety.

A sleep health program from The University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research was one of nine successful projects that received an NHMRC/Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Indigenous Health research grant.

Digital contact tracing solutions for COVID-19 must offer exceptional speed and achieve high take-up rates to be useful, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research and the Centre for Social Data Analytics (Auckland University of Technology).

Congratulations to Bachelor of Journalism/Communication student Nibir Khan who has recently been announced as a Walkley finalist for their mid-year awards.

How UQ research is helping design social housing that better meets the needs of older residents.

A novel set during a global pandemic eerily similar to our own COVID-19 crisis will be developed into a television series.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Executive Dean Professor Heather Zwicker has joined UQ’s Ally Network as an Executive Champion in 2020.

In times of adversity, art provides comfort and distraction. But what happens when adversity keeps us from enjoying art?