In 2017, there are Australian universities that still haven’t appointed a single woman to the position of professor of mathematics, a renowned mathematician has said in her keynote speech. And what grinds the gears of professor Nalini Joshi, the University ...

All things can be measured, especially your working life. The Secret Lecturer offers some satirical, and possibly sage, advice in an excerpt from the book, An Insider's Guide to Working in a Modern University. If you work at a modern university, ...

The suffix -algia comes from the Greek word meaning ‘pain’, and is normally used in medical terms that  categorise physical distress, as in myalgia (‘muscle pain’) and odontalgia (‘toothache’). By contrast, the less specialised word nostalgia refers to mental anguish, ...

This word owes its origin to one person’s creative thinking, in the title of Parag Khanna’s Connectography: Mapping the future of global civilization.  It was published less than a year ago (April 2016) along with a TED Talk, and with ...

Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...

Creating new words is an unpredictable business. How was Lewis Carroll to know that amongst the brillig, gimble and uffish of “Jabberwocky”, chortle would gain popular acceptance? Did we really need a new term for laughing? Advertising agency McCann thought ...

Curtin University executives and researchers may soon be teaching classes, as an internal email revealed 100 to 150 teaching staff across the university will be cut. And in an email to his staff at the Faculty of Humanities, pro vice-chancellor ...

The University of Technology Sydney has become the first university to sign SANE Australia’s charter, pledging to improve mental health among staff and students. At the end of October, UTS signed the SANE Australia Mindful Employer Charter. This is a promise to ...

Gender inequity will exacerbate shortages in the mathematical workforce caused by an ageing population, a new report from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has warned. AMSI director professor Geoff Prince has quoted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that show ...

PhD researches FOOTBALL, and plays it A PhD student from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, whose work could benefit football players, has been selected to play for Carlton in the first AFL Women’s League draft. Kate Gillespie-Jones was picked 14th among the ...