Our world

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.

Survey results reveal positive outcomes from pandemic

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).

On International Women’s Day, women from around the world are calling for a Women’s Global Strike to show the world that when women stop, the world stops.

The recent discovery of stone tools in India has revealed that humans survived and coped with one of the largest volcanic events in human history.

The intensity and impact of the historic Toba super-eruption in Indonesia sparked a long-running debate among researchers involving climatic, geological, archaeological and genetic evidence, until now.

The UQ-led study published in Nature Communications includes the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens use of plant foods outside Africa and the Middle East.

The University of Queensland has partnered with the United Nations Association of Australia, Griffith University and several other peace organisations to celebrate this year’s International Day of Peace (IDOP).

Last week UQ’s School of Political Science and International Studies welcomed Senator the Honourable Penny Wong to present at their 2019 Annual Lecture.

Held at the State Library of Queensland on Tuesday, 12 March, Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Labor Senator for South Australia Senator Wong discussed rebuilding Australia’s International Development Program for a Time of Disruption.

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.