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Dangerous fieldwork in the social sciences
Rachel Gray | December 1, 2020A UNSW criminologist and an international relations expert walk into a bar … and years later their discussions over drinks turn into a book.
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Can A.I. encourage prosperity for all?
Dawn Lo | November 30, 2020A legal expert explains how AI can be entrusted to assume tasks currently performed by humans in the business, education and health sectors.
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Rescuing Australia’s lost literary treasures
Rebecca Giblin | November 30, 2020A new project is digitising some of Australia’s most culturally-important lost books, getting them into libraries and answering some important questions.
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Tackling vaccine ‘hesitancy’
Open Forum | November 30, 2020UniSA researchers are evaluating a new vaccination education initiative – the COVID-19 Peer Hub – to help immunisation and public health professionals to tackle the emerging dangers of vaccine hesitancy amid the pandemic.
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Making the streets safer
Amelia Thorpe | November 29, 2020Delivery riders are paying the ultimate price for the fact that our cities, their infrastructure and the rules governing them make cycling much more dangerous than it should be.
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Lettuce change
Victoria Haritos | November 29, 2020COVID-19 has shone a spotlight directly on policies and measures by Australia – and indeed the world – to contain food waste.
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Beyond the wire
Michael Shoebridge | November 29, 2020How could 39 alleged unlawful killings of Afghan people by members of Australia’s special forces have occurred over years while no officer in command of those soldiers knew about or had reasonable grounds to suspect the crimes?
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Arvanitakis on American politics: Slowly moving forward
James Arvanitakis | November 28, 2020Donald Trump’s scattergun attempts to overturn the Presidential election result appear to be failing, but how will his disregard for American democratic norms poison the well for future elections?
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Stampedes, sharks and cyclones
Sherry Landow | November 28, 2020Swimming away from sharks, defending a tent during mini-cyclone and being threatened with a pet dingo are all in a day’s work for coastal researcher Professor Rob Brander.
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What’s the big idea?
Courtney Lock | November 28, 2020COVID-19 narrowed our activity, interactions and experiences, making our lives smaller and more mundane. How can people get their creative mojo back for 2021?
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Tabi on racial matters: Are businesses missing out on the untapped skills of Black African Australian women?
Gloria Tabi | November 27, 2020It’s time for positive measures to unleash Black African Australian women’s creativity, diversity and adaptability in the workplace as business begins to recover from COVID-19.
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Learning from measles to fight coronavirus
Valasi Iosefa | November 27, 2020The Samoan Government learned some sobering lessons about maintaining confidence in public health during the 2019 measles epidemic which have been applied to the fight against COVID-19.
