Brittany Higgins has taken up a new role to further her work advocating for victims of sexual assault and harassment and for gender equality. The former political staffer has been appointed as the first visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s ...

Researchers say that if you work sitting down all day you should get up and move every half hour, or run the risk of serious ill health. A new study from an international consortium of scientists, including academics from the ...

Monash has become the latest university to own up to wage theft, announcing that they owe casual academics millions in underpayments. After an internal investigation Monash VC Margaret Gardner has admitted that between January 1 2014 and 30 June 2020 ...

One time Democratic presidential candidate and former US first Lady Hillary Clinton will finally be inaugurated as the chancellor of Queen's University Belfast (QUB), as reported by the BBC. Clinton, a former senator for New York and Obama-era Secretary of ...

A weekend lie in could go a long way to fighting depression, according to new research. Academics from Yonsei University in South Korea looked at the sleep of 5500 people to see if there is an association between weekend catch-up ...

Australia will soon welcome its first commercial recycling plant that uses enzymes to “eat” plastic and break it down into its core molecules so they can be reused. Recycling start-up Samsara’s first 5000 tonnes of recycled material – equivalent to ...

Newly found blood biomarkers could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more than a decade before symptoms start to emerge. A world first study from researchers at Macquarie University identified a protein in the blood which could lead to low cost screening ...

As the last coalition planes left the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, no-one knew what would befall the millions of people left in the war-torn country. Many believed the Taliban would revert back to the ruthless regime they once were, while ...

Unrecyclable takeaway coffee cups could find a second life as concrete paths and Besser blocks, new research has found. An experimental study by Victoria University’s (VU) College of Engineering and Science tested a range of new materials that replace the ...

Australian universities have “failed to protect the academic freedom” of Chinese students and academics, and the sector must step up its protective efforts, a joint parliamentary committee has heard. Researcher Sophie McNeil from Human Rights Watch Australia (HRWA), a member ...