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The University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University researchers have been contracted by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission to undertake research to help protect the rights of people living with a disability and decrease the likelihood they will experience abuse, neglect and exploitation

Congratulations to Jackie Perren from the HASS HR team who received the award for Mutual Respect and Diversity at the inaugural UQ HR Awards for Excellence held at Customs House earlier this month.

This was the first year a HR specific awards program has been held, dedicated to celebrating and recognising the achievements of HR staff; attracting 130 nominations across the five categories.

Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning (LGBQ) adolescents are worse off than their heterosexual peers across health and wellbeing outcomes, according to a University of Queensland study.

Social justice and Indigenous issues are subjects close to the heart of University of Queensland Arts Valedictorian Amila Sargeant.

Hard work, time management and taking every opportunity on offer was the key to success for Arts/Psychology Valedictorian Ayu Namira Paramecwari.

UQ graduate vows to help stop violence in UNHCR refugee camps.

UQ graduate finds purpose telling the stories of displaced people in Myanmar.

UQ graduate Maggie James uses the power of music to bring comfort to sick children in their darkest hour.

UQ Archaeology students head to the Hawaiian Islands

Our primary education students engaged in fun activities with on-campus kindergarten and childcare children at UQ’s Art Museum recently, as part of Under 8’s Week (17-24 June).

A University of Queensland student will complete his degree in Copenhagen thanks to Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

Former Colombian guerrillas who are in the process of reintegration into society as whitewater rafting guides will appear at two free events held at The University of Queensland this week.

Four former playwriting students from The University of Queensland have been selected to participate in one of Queensland’s most competitive script development programs.

A UQ Masters graduate from the troubled Latin American nation tells his story.

UQ Art History students are creating their own history, curating exhibitions for the Summer Mixer program at UQ Art Museum.

A team of University of Queensland researchers will join forces with 40 other organisations to form a new cooperative research centre (CRC), set to improve Australian seafood and offshore renewable energy production.

Thrifty parents in low-income households could be inadvertently encouraging unhealthy fussy eating habits in their children.
University of Queensland researcher Professor Karen Thorpe said parents in poorer households were keenly aware that uneaten food amounted to extra strains on household resources.

Australians’ willingness to accept immigrants and asylum seekers is heavily influenced by the neighbourhoods they live in, a University of Queensland researcher has found.

Executive Dean Professor Heather Zwicker hosted a series of lightning talks by HASS researchers at the Humanities for the Future event on Thursday, 4 April 2019.