Our world

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.

Seven UQ student stories have made their way onto ABC's production floor as a result of the inaugural ABC Pitch competition held at their Southbank Centre last week.

Do you prefer rock or opera? Sport or documentaries? Jane Austen or Jodi Picoult? Or both equally? According to a new study based at the University of Western Sydney, your answers are strongly influenced by your social class.