With the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games about to begin, debate is again heating up about what countries spend on Olympic and Paralympic teams. Australia has spent a staggering 1.2 billion dollars on getting our elite sportspeople to Paris. This means that each gold medal that an Australian wins at the 2024 Games will cost several tens of millions of dollars.
Sports journalist pioneer and UQ alum (Bachelor of Journalism ’82) Louise Evans is getting ready to head to Paris to cover her seventh Olympics. She shares her experiences and highlights while reporting on global sporting event:
Announced earlier this month, the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) is a major new research infrastructure initiative that will open up the ‘black box’ of digital platforms and their algorithms.
Sarah Watego graduates from The University of Queensland today as the last recipient of a scholarship created to empower the next generation of aspiring Indigenous Australian journalists.
An interactive digital design tool for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums has become the first ever humanities research from The University of Queensland to be commercialised and sold overseas.
Welcome to Pru Rolff, who has returned to UQ as Senior Manager at the Institute of Modern Languages, taking over from IML Director Georgiana Poulter who retired last month.
Associate Professor Elizabeth Edwards from the School of Education presented research on the training of mechanisms most vulnerable to pressure at the QUEX Institute symposium. Her strategy shows promise for reducing anxiety and improving sporting and other performance.