The Centre for Policy Futures will shortly commence a project with QLD Correctional Services into the prevalence of disability among inmates in Queensland prisons – and we are looking for Research Assistants to perform the onsite disability screen.
A 40-year UQ study that has followed people with Down syndrome from infancy to adulthood has helped change perceptions and led to the development of programs that are improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities around the world.
A donation by the Queensland Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens (QFAAIA) has allowed UQ’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum to buy a rare Bronze Age chariot figurine from Greece.
Recent results from The University of Queensland’s annual Chinese Writing Contest show the value of Chinese language learning in Queensland schools has steadily increased over the years.
The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently awarded Associate Professor Cameron Parsell from UQ’s School of Social Science with a Future Fellowship in order to equip society with the knowledge to better address poverty.
The Brisbane Convention Bureau has partnered with the School of Languages and Cultures to secure a trifecta of conferences worth over $2.1 million for the city’s economy.
ChangeMakers spoke with Dr Nicholas Carah from the School of Communication and Arts and two of his former students, Shi Pui Ng and Kirsten Slemint, about the Students as Partners project they all participated in.
After 400 days in prison, former foreign correspondent Professor Peter Greste reveals how being silenced by the Egyptian government only helped to amplify his message of press freedom.
31 March 2018
In this era of ‘alternative facts’ and ‘fake news’, political scientist Professor Katharine Gelber is working to inform public debate and policymaking with research and evidence that should, importantly, fill in the gaps and gaping voids that sound bites and headlines are unable to fill.
