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Julia Vassilieva Senior Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies

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.

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

Annika Molenaar Research Officer, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food

Changing the conversation

Young adults talk about food as good and bad, but health professionals should move away from the focus on shame, guilt and fear around food and nutrition.

Young adults talk about food as good and bad, but health professionals should move away from the focus on shame, guilt and fear around food and nutrition.

Alison Stieven-Taylor Assistant Lecturer, Communications & Media Studies

A window to the world

COVID-19 has forced many people to stay at home, but a Facebook group is allowing millions of its members to connect, and virtually travel internationally.

COVID-19 has forced many people to stay at home, but a Facebook group is allowing millions of its members to connect, and virtually travel internationally.

Mandy Truong Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dismantling racism in universities

Academic institutions and the research community play a role in perpetrating and maintaining institutional and systemic racism.

Academic institutions and the research community play a role in perpetrating and maintaining institutional and systemic racism.

Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

Episode 19: It's a Man's World

We’re tackling a new topic on this episode of Monash podcast, What Happens Next?, looking at masculinity, and how its negative forms can be as damaging to men as women.

We’re tackling a new topic on this episode of Monash podcast, What Happens Next?, looking at masculinity, and how its negative forms can be as damaging to men as women.

Steven Roberts Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences

Episode 20: Nice Guise

On this episode we’ll hear a more positive perspective – how masculinity is changing, and how men are being encouraged to change past patterns of behaviour.

On this episode we’ll hear a more positive perspective – how masculinity is changing, and how men are being encouraged to change past patterns of behaviour.

Sharon Pickering Professor of Criminology, Dean of Arts

Funding rejig 'unfortunate and misplaced'

The federal government’s changes to university funding, making some arts and humanities courses more than twice as expensive, is misguided.

The federal government’s changes to university funding, making some arts and humanities courses more than twice as expensive, is misguided.

Science

Finding order among the chaos

The COVID-19 crisis has provided an opportunity to test investment tools devised to take into account the long-term impact of climate change on markets.

Hasan Fallahgoul Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics

The COVID-19 crisis has provided an opportunity to test investment tools devised to take into account the long-term impact of climate change on markets.

Technology And Engineering

Jon McCormack Professor, and Director, Monash SensiLab, Faculty of Information Technology

Feeding the entertainment machine

Deferring to AI to give us what we like further diminishes culture at a societal scale, and cultural difference globally.

Deferring to AI to give us what we like further diminishes culture at a societal scale, and cultural difference globally.

Gemma Sharp NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, Clinical Psychologist

Episode 18: Until We Tweet Again

This episode features all the best tips and guidance from our experts about how to help young people manage their social media use for mental health and wellbeing.

This episode features all the best tips and guidance from our experts about how to help young people manage their social media use for mental health and wellbeing.

Brady Robards Senior Lecturer, Sociology

Episode 17: People You May Know

In this episode Dr Susan Carland finds out how Monash experts are harnessing the strengths of social media platforms to make a positive impact on mental health.

In this episode Dr Susan Carland finds out how Monash experts are harnessing the strengths of social media platforms to make a positive impact on mental health.

Grindr is deleting its "ethnicity filter" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, but although digital apps are spaces for connection, online dating platforms often provide a safe space for racist attitudes.

Where sex and racism collide

Grindr is deleting its "ethnicity filter" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, but although digital apps are spaces for connection, online dating platforms often provide a safe space for racist attitudes.

Gene Lim PhD candidate

Rebecca Forgasz Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation

Looking back to look forward

How we responded to pandemics in the past can carry lessons for the current COVID-19 situation.

How we responded to pandemics in the past can carry lessons for the current COVID-19 situation.

Kerry O'Brien Professor of Behavioural Sciences

Booze-soaked sports broadcasting

Footy returns this week, and with it will come an avalanche of alcohol advertising, with little protection for children.

Footy returns this week, and with it will come an avalanche of alcohol advertising, with little protection for children.

Nicky Jacobs Associate Professor, Psychology and Counselling

Episode 16: #NoFilter

What does the world look like if we fail to properly address the impacts of social media on mental health?

What does the world look like if we fail to properly address the impacts of social media on mental health?

Jacinta Elston Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) & Head, William Cooper Institute

Black lives matter in Australia, too

Rhetoric and hypocrisy can still be seen everywhere in the reconciliation space, and while protests are occurring across Australia in response to the #blacklivesmatter crisis in the US, we shouldn't ignore our own history.

Rhetoric and hypocrisy can still be seen everywhere in the reconciliation space, and while protests are occurring across Australia in response to the #blacklivesmatter crisis in the US, we shouldn't ignore our own history.

Featured

Kari Dahlgren Research Fellow, Department of Human Centred Computing

Coronavirus and the coalface

COVID-19 raises new challenges for remote mining communities already compromised by fly-in-fly-out workers.

COVID-19 raises new challenges for remote mining communities already compromised by fly-in-fly-out workers.

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.