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.
21 March 2018
So much has progressed in the battle for equity, but so much needs to be done. Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch explains how a research network of humanities scholars is set to grapple with the topic of women and power.
31 May 2018
By bringing communities, schools and law enforcement together, Professor Lorraine Mazerolle’s new approach to tackling truancy is exciting law enforcement bodies in Australia and internationally.
Caitlin Curtis from UQ's Centre for Policy Futures and James Hereward (UQ Biological Sciences) have published five articles in a series of six on genetics and DNA to be featured on The Conversation. The findings are really interesting…and scary.
One of the world’s most comprehensive databases of Australian literature and storytelling – AustLit – has paved the way for the development of Cirrus – a teaching and learning platform supporting digitally informed assessment and learning activities at The University of Queensland.
31 May 2018
Podcast series
Dr Ryan Walter from the School of Political Science and International Studies examines key texts in the process by which economics attempted to break away from its origins in moral and political thought.
Crops are one of the bedrocks of today’s global civilisation, and the understanding of how they first spread around the world has been challenged by a University of Queensland archaeologist.
