Academics are drawing links between ageism in society and increased instances of elder abuse. To combat this, a collaboration between researchers from Swinburne University and Eastern Community Legal Centre has developed a slew of digital stories to help dispel myths ...
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The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has outlined how its members are tackling COVID-19 in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region while calling on the government for more research funding. The IRU group (comprising seven universities) is focusing on three ...
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Perhaps no topic in recent history has garnered as much public and academic attention as COVID-19. News of this pandemic has saturated the international airwaves since it was first reported in late 2019. In its wake, life has ground to ...
More »Investment in university research is an investment in COVID-19 recovery: Universities Australia
The head of Universities Australia (UA) has urged the government to prioritise investment in university research, arguing it is critical to Australia’s economic and social development in the future. As sobering new modelling estimates “up to 38 per cent of ...
More »COVID-19 may change workplace models forever: Podcast
CampusReview · How COVID-19 may have changed business models forever - Dr Sarah Bankins While some employees may have been able to access work from home (WFH) policies in the past, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that almost everyone who ...
More »Year 12s, this is still your year: advice from a VC
Think you’ve got it tough sitting at home watching the news, rationing toilet paper and worrying about the future? Try being a current Queensland year 12 student. If you are one of the state’s 50,000+ year 12 students, you must ...
More »How COVID-19 has opened our eyes to other ‘catastrophic’ global threats: Report
Perhaps one of the only ‘benefits’ of a pandemic like COVID-19 is that it can trigger countries to reassess other dangers to humanity and how they can be mitigated - possibly even eliminated - in the future. A new report, entitled ...
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We might not be able to see it, but whenever we speak or cough or hiccup, we expel a kind of ‘mouth rain’ – a shower of tiny droplets that is thought to travel at least 1.5 metres. It is ...
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Forty of the world’s leading climate research universities have formed the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA) to fight climate change. The IUCA’s united goal is to ensure that governments, the public, media and industry have "better access to research-based facts ...
More »Six key humanities grant applications extended until June
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has extended the deadline for several prestigious humanities research grants, as COVID-19 continues to cause significant disruptions to work and personal life. Australia’s peak humanities body has now extended the deadline for the grants below ...
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