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Stephanie Brookes Dr, Lecturer, Journalism Studies, Faculty of Arts

Pressing matters

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the vital role political journalists play in holding those in power to account.

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the vital role political journalists play in holding those in power to account.

Business

Karinna Saxby Research Fellow, PhD Candidate, Centre for Health Economics

Business

Why discrimination makes us sick

When sexual minorities live in regions of high stigma, not only is their heath affected, but so too is their healthcare use, according to a new study.

When sexual minorities live in regions of high stigma, not only is their heath affected, but so too is their healthcare use, according to a new study.

Maria O'Sullivan Senior Lecturer, Law Resources

Protecting your privacy

The COVIDSafe contact tracing app raises serious concerns for privacy, even if installing it is voluntary.

The COVIDSafe contact tracing app raises serious concerns for privacy, even if installing it is voluntary.

Whitney Monaghan Assistant Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies, Faculty of Arts

Silver screen, silver lining?

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on Australia's screen industry, but also offers a chance to finally address some of its longstanding issues of diversity and inclusion.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on Australia's screen industry, but also offers a chance to finally address some of its longstanding issues of diversity and inclusion.

Science

Tooth be told

A rare fossil tooth discovery has shed light on an extinct group of seals from Australia’s deep past.

David Hocking Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences

A rare fossil tooth discovery has shed light on an extinct group of seals from Australia’s deep past.

Education

The struggle to belong at school

Australian schools are failing to foster a sense of belonging among their students.

Kelly-Ann Allen Senior Lecturer, Educational Psychology and Inclusion Education

Australian schools are failing to foster a sense of belonging among their students.

Margaret Taft Research Associate, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation

Language with chutzpah

The number of speakers may have fallen away, but interest in Yiddish culture and language is now experiencing a global revival, including in Melbourne.

The number of speakers may have fallen away, but interest in Yiddish culture and language is now experiencing a global revival, including in Melbourne.

Graeme Davison Ao

Graeme Davison AO Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor

Flagging a change

With the Australian flag increasingly seen as a fashion statement rather than what it's supposed to represent, is it time for a rethink?

With the Australian flag increasingly seen as a fashion statement rather than what it's supposed to represent, is it time for a rethink?

Bain Attwood Professor, History

A champion for Aboriginal rights

William Cooper was in a league of his own, fighting for an Aboriginal voice in parliament and a treaty in the 1930s.

William Cooper was in a league of his own, fighting for an Aboriginal voice in parliament and a treaty in the 1930s.

Podcast: Waste crisis

What Happens Next? Podcast

Podcast: Waste crisis

Episode 3: The Mess We're In

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

Monash Life Magazine

A language is said to become extinct when its last native speaker dies. Often that final breath also draws into death the identity ascribed by Indigenous people to their natural world – its plants, animals and landscape.

Preserving Indigenous languages

A language is said to become extinct when its last native speaker dies. Often that final breath also draws into death the identity ascribed by Indigenous people to their natural world – its plants, animals and landscape.

Monash University

Monash Life Magazine

Through the intensely personal theatre work of Tom Molyneux, we learn about an Indigenous soldier who served in World War I.

A reckoning with history

Through the intensely personal theatre work of Tom Molyneux, we learn about an Indigenous soldier who served in World War I.

Monash University

Kate Fitch Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications Studies

Once upon a time in PR ...

Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.

Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.

Education

Letting children think big

Teaching children philosophy can help improve academic results. But more importantly, it allows children a space to make sense of the world, and meaning in their lives.

Ben Kilby PhD student, Faculty of Education

Teaching children philosophy can help improve academic results. But more importantly, it allows children a space to make sense of the world, and meaning in their lives.

Andrea Baker Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Undergraduate Journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism

Why Melbourne is Australia’s coolest city

Progressive music policies and innovative branding have made Melbourne the true leader of Australia's music scene.

Progressive music policies and innovative branding have made Melbourne the true leader of Australia's music scene.

Paul Grabowsky Executive Director of the Monash Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA)

Art and soul

Performance art gives voice to our sense of what it means to belong; our identity and cultural evolution.

Performance art gives voice to our sense of what it means to belong; our identity and cultural evolution.

Medicine and health

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Medicine and health

The battle back home

Leaving behind a military uniform and the status that it brings can be profoundly difficult.

Sanjiva Wijesinha Clinical Associate Professor, Department of General Practice

Leaving behind a military uniform and the status that it brings can be profoundly difficult.

Martijn Van Der Kamp