Supporting teacher wellbeing

Children are the focus as the new school year begins, but the wellbeing of teachers is receiving increasing attention, not least within the Australian Government’s National Teacher Workforce Action Plan and the Australian Teacher Workforce.

Welcome to the world of social robots

Social robotics can make social life more accessible to a greater diversity of people, according to Professor Mari Velonaki of the University of New South Wales.

How machine learning can clean up our cities

The use of computational design can pinpoint ways to drive greater efficiencies across the built environment, enabling us to create more sustainable cities.

Augmented reality project explores lived experience of disaster survivors

Art meets mental health in an immersive art project co-designed with people with lived experience of trauma from regional, rural and remote areas.

Bridging troubled waters: engaging Uralla on water sustainability

Inclusive decision-making that consults local communities is key to making informed choices on environmental issues such as water security.

Super cool building solutions for our cities

New building materials that reflect rather than absorb solar energy can reduce peak temperatures in our cities by up to four degrees.

Better than a thousand words

Dr Cameron Edmond looks at three narrative visualisations that effectively articulate COVID-19 public health messages.

The suffocating truth about Australian race relations

As #BlackLivesMatter protests echo around the world, Australia must address the lack of accountability for its own Indigenous deaths in custody.

Optimising online education

Australia’s schools and universities haven’t yet been ordered to close, but many countries have already taken this step, and the quality of online education must be optimised to ensure students don’t miss out.

‘I’m not angry, I’m just Arab’: Michael Mohammed Ahmad talks race and masculinity

There’s no hiding from confrontational truths in Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s new novel “The Lebs”.

An Australia unified through the pursuit of self-interest

Noel Pearson delivered an optimistic “Declaration to Australia”, along with a series of “uncomfortable but necessary truths”, to a packed theatre at UNSW Sydney during this year’s Hal Wootten Lecture.