COVID-19: a global snapshot
As it continues to spread around the world, coronavirus is significantly altering the global political landscape.
How outdated is the ATAR score?
A main contributor to the confusion over how to support people transitioning into tertiary or higher education (HE) seems to be the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).
The Covidscape
We have entered the Covidscape. We are constantly consuming and being consumed by it. We are dreaming about it. We are desperately seeking moments of escape from it, if we are able to.
Reconstructing past atrocities
Straddling the line between design and legal testimony, Forensic Architecture is drawing attention to human rights violations.
Feeding a COVID-19 Nation: protecting all worker’s rights in a time of crisis
In a period of panic-buying and empty supermarket shelves, we can’t forget about the horticultural industry that works to sustain us.
What’s your loneliness room? Connecting humans through creative practice research
In ‘How to Treat a “Loneliness Epidemic”’, a recent letter to the editor from The New York Times, writers discussed what responsibility we have to lonely people.
Online courses to reduce gambling-related harm
Thousands of Australians are negatively affected by gambling each year. But Deakin and the Office of Responsible Gambling NSW are working to change that.
International Women’s Day 2020 – Celebrating women in research
In the lead up to the 2020 International Women’s Day, we spoke to Dr. Dwan Price and Dr. Tricia Ong, two leading researchers with a passion for STEMM and reproductive health respectively.
Gender-based violence prevention education: it’s time to go outside the school-yard
How do we go about teaching respectful relationships? We caught up with Associate Professor Debbie Ollis to find out.
If You Build It, They Will Feel
How close are we to figuring out if buildings shape our emotions?
Clothes maketh the man: re-imagining our role as a consumer
In 2016, Australian households spent a total of $666 billion on general household living costs.
Breathing new life into performances of the past
How can 3D digitisation be used to preserve the history of opera?
Better humanitarian action through a diasporic lens
Pacific Island countries are among the most vulnerable in the world to natural disasters. These communities require our support, just not the traditional kind.
From past to present and back again
Frequently we think history is incapable of making an impact on our lives now; a distant experience lived by our injudicious ancestors. We are wrong.
Public speaking, a good kind of uncomfortable
Sometimes it can feel utterly impossible to place yourself in a position where you have to speak in front of people.
The future of the Australian film industry
Could this be the end of Australian film?