As summer peaks, so does the incidence of music festivals; a rite of passage for many young Australians. Yet increasingly, these frivolous events are tinged with tragedy. Over the weekend, 19 year-old Alex Ross-King died at FOMO Festival – the fifth ...

Eniola David Ibraheem, the second of four children, hails from Nigeria. He initially studied international law and diplomacy, and worked as a mediator in his home country. Now, as a Masters in Social Work student at Monash University, he could ...

Australian universities have increased their share of top-ten places for subject-specific performance according to new university rankings released today. The eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, ranks ...

Monash University has appointed renowned researcher and legal consultant Professor Bryan Horrigan as the new dean of the faculty of law. Horrigan currently holds the Louis Waller chair of law within the faculty and is also the associate dean (research). ...

Monash University philosopher Dr Robert Sparrow says military organisations are funding a significant amount of robotics research that is making war more likely by lowering the threshold of conflict. Sparrow, from the school of philosophical, historical and international studies, in ...

Roff kicks off new role Former Wallabies winger Joe Roff has begun his new role as chief executive of the University of Canberra Union (UCU). The position was created as a result of UCU’s new strategic plan and direction to ...

Climate change and the need for natural resources are two big threats to the frozen south, say international researchers. Experts from around the globe, led by Monash University's Professor Steven Chown, have set out the current and future conservation challenges ...