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Sticking to the script

The Republican National Convention was a political reality TV show featuring themes that have come to define the Trump presidency, from scare tactics to “alternate facts”.

Meghna Srinivas PhD candidate, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts

The Republican National Convention was a political reality TV show featuring themes that have come to define the Trump presidency, from scare tactics to “alternate facts”.

Politics and society

Politics And Society

Politics and society

Deciphering COVID dreams

A new global study into COVID-related dreams and daydreams aims to shed light on how they relate to our mental health in the pandemic.

Jennifer Windt Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Faculty of Arts

A new global study into COVID-related dreams and daydreams aims to shed light on how they relate to our mental health in the pandemic.

Politics and society

Politics And Society

Politics and society

Tuning into COVID-19

Screen time: What we’re watching, what we’re creating, and the iconography that's coming to define the COVID-19 pandemic.

Julia Vassilieva Senior Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies

Screen time: What we’re watching, what we’re creating, and the iconography that's coming to define the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

While you were sleeping

When we dream, we get so absorbed by our fantasies that the external world is shut out, even though the brain can still process sensory information.

Thomas Andrillon Research Fellow, Psychology

When we dream, we get so absorbed by our fantasies that the external world is shut out, even though the brain can still process sensory information.

A Different Lens

Episode 16: Digital Health – The new frontier of healthcare

It's clear the role of technology in healthcare is growing and changing. But how these systems and tools are being implemented varies greatly, raising the question: Will digital health improve our lives or complicate them?

Christine Grove Senior Lecturer, Educational Psychology and Inclusive Education

It's clear the role of technology in healthcare is growing and changing. But how these systems and tools are being implemented varies greatly, raising the question: Will digital health improve our lives or complicate them?

Education

Monash Life Magazine

Education

Scholarship success

Monash's most recent cohort of Fulbright, Rhodes and Schwarzman scholars share their passions and plans for the future.

Monash University

Monash's most recent cohort of Fulbright, Rhodes and Schwarzman scholars share their passions and plans for the future.

A Different Lens

Episode 15: The ageing population

For the first time in human history, the world's population is rapidly ageing, and in an ageist society we're ill-prepared to handle it. A Different Lens explores the challenges of an ageing population.

Joseph Ibrahim Head, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine

For the first time in human history, the world's population is rapidly ageing, and in an ageist society we're ill-prepared to handle it. A Different Lens explores the challenges of an ageing population.

A Different Lens

Episode 12: Designing future cities

The challenge of providing appropriate care to an ageing population means the rate of technological innovation needs to be stepped up and more smart homes created.

Rebecca Wickes Associate Professor, Criminology and Director, Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre

The challenge of providing appropriate care to an ageing population means the rate of technological innovation needs to be stepped up and more smart homes created.

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

A virtual take on pain reduction

A trial has shown that VR can help women better cope during a common procedure to reposition their breech baby.

Vinayak Smith Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

A trial has shown that VR can help women better cope during a common procedure to reposition their breech baby.

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

A playground for the brain

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Murat Yucel Professor (Research), Psychology

Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.

Medicine and health

Monash Life Magazine

Medicine and health

David Winston Turner Endowment Fund

Using the latest thinking in brain research, BrainPark – The David W. Turner Research Clinic, will empower people with compulsivity disorders to create healthier lives for themselves.

Monash University

Using the latest thinking in brain research, BrainPark – The David W. Turner Research Clinic, will empower people with compulsivity disorders to create healthier lives for themselves.

Business and economy

Featured

Business and economy

Retailers brace for Amazon shop shock

The online shopping giant's arrival in Australia is seen by many as the greatest retail disruption to happen in years.

Harmen Oppewal Professor of Marketing, Monash Business School

The online shopping giant's arrival in Australia is seen by many as the greatest retail disruption to happen in years.

Politics and society

Politics And Society

Politics and society

White paper shows a hedging of bets

Revisionism? Not so much – the first foreign policy white paper since 2003 is firmly in the camp of the status quo.

Remy Davison Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University

Revisionism? Not so much – the first foreign policy white paper since 2003 is firmly in the camp of the status quo.

Science

Monash Magazine

Science

Mining’s new fly-in fly-out workers

AI, robotics, advanced vision systems and drone-building are redefining one of the oldest sciences – geology.

Steven Micklethwaite Associate Professor of Geology

AI, robotics, advanced vision systems and drone-building are redefining one of the oldest sciences – geology.

Medicine and health

Monash Magazine

Medicine and health

Keeping it real

Advances in simulation are allowing trainee and professional surgeons to hone their craft, and so improving outcomes for the world’s youngest patients.

Ram Nataraja Director of Surgical Simulation, Monash Children's Hospital

Advances in simulation are allowing trainee and professional surgeons to hone their craft, and so improving outcomes for the world’s youngest patients.