The COVID-19 pandemic and ageing migrants’ digital lives
As the global health crisis continues to put a strain on people’s everyday lives, the Australia’s ageing migrant community have turned to digital means to stay in touch.
Coercive control is a key part of domestic violence. So why isn’t it a crime across Australia?
Psychological abuse and controlling behaviours can be apparent before perpetrators murder their partners. So let's take these coercive behaviours more seriously and make them a crime.
Enhancing justice experience of sexual violence victims: a Deakin study
Deakin University criminology lecturer Mary Iliadis investigates how to meaningfully include sexual violence victims in the criminal justice system.
Reading out the pandemic: escaping into the familiar and the fantastical
In times of crisis, we crave familiar stories.
Australia’s young expats: mobility aspirations and pathways in the pandemic
Young people are re-shaping their life plans beyond traditional pathways
Blurring the self: performing identity online during COVID-19
How has your digital persona changed during 2020?
Black Lives Matter: a movement with global relevance
The Black Lives Matter movement has continued to draw our collective attention to issues around inequality, identity, racism and the ways that institutions and individuals can perpetuate them.
From #MulaiBicara to #BabaeAko: Unpacking #MeToo movements across Asia
The movements in Indonesia and the Philippines bringing gender rights into public discussion
Making the deep past relevant to the future for the sake of all life on earth
Aileen Walsh, from Deakin University’s NIKERI Institute, on looking to the past to protect the future.
When art meets sport: actor training could help kids learn physical literacy
Sports and the arts might seem like strange bedfellows. But these disciplines have more in common than meets the eye.
Normalising conspiracy theories: videogames, violence and the far-Right
A number of popular video games are putting stories of paranoia, anxiety, political fringes and complex conspiracies of power into the mainstream.
When ‘What if?’ becomes reality: New Deakin research group shines light on the fantastique
Beginning as a prominent genre within French literature, ‘the fantastique’ is a category of literature and cinema that has often defied clear definition.