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Selby Coxon Associate Professor, Design

Rethinking public transport post-pandemic

A multidisciplinary research team is examining how we can translate what we know about public health contagion to develop safer public transport infrastructure.

A multidisciplinary research team is examining how we can translate what we know about public health contagion to develop safer public transport infrastructure.

Denise Goodwin Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Getting the most out of telehealth

COVID-19 has meant conducting business online or over the phone has become the norm, and health consultations are no exception.

COVID-19 has meant conducting business online or over the phone has become the norm, and health consultations are no exception.

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.

Peter Slattery Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, MSDI

Running the numbers game

The real-time SCRUB project is tracking how groups of people around the world are behaving amid the COVID-19 crisis.

The real-time SCRUB project is tracking how groups of people around the world are behaving amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Medicine And Health

Suzanne Nielsen Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre

Regulating opioid supply

New rules aim to curb opioid-related deaths in Australia. These changes are a step in the right direction, but we need to tread carefully to avoid unintended consequences.

New rules aim to curb opioid-related deaths in Australia. These changes are a step in the right direction, but we need to tread carefully to avoid unintended consequences.

Education

A helping hand for Year 12s

There are key messages that parents and teachers can use to set the emotional tone for students when stress levels ramp up.

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

There are key messages that parents and teachers can use to set the emotional tone for students when stress levels ramp up.

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.

Podcast: Impact of Art

What Happens Next? Podcast

Podcast: Impact of Art

Episode 15: My Art Will Go On

So what can you do to save us all from a world without art? In this podcast episode of What Happens Next?, our experts share all their best tips for finding art in new places.

Jon McCormack Researcher in Computational Creativity

So what can you do to save us all from a world without art? In this podcast episode of What Happens Next?, our experts share all their best tips for finding art in new places.

Jacqui True Professor of International Relations and Director, of the Gender, Peace and Security Centre

Giving voice to human rights defenders

Agencies working to protect vulnerable women and children, often in fragile and conflict-affected countries, are coming under increasing pressure in delivering their services during the COVID-19 global crisis.

Agencies working to protect vulnerable women and children, often in fragile and conflict-affected countries, are coming under increasing pressure in delivering their services during the COVID-19 global crisis.

Stacy Holman Jones Professor, Monash Centre for Theatre and Performance

The show must go on(line)

Live streaming of theatrical performances on platforms such as Zoom, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook has exploded in popularity.

Live streaming of theatrical performances on platforms such as Zoom, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook has exploded in popularity.

Business and economy

Gaurav Datt Associate Professor, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability

Business and economy

Financing the COVID-19 fiscal response

The price tag is massive, and growing rapidly, but there's a radical path forward through monetising government debt.

The price tag is massive, and growing rapidly, but there's a radical path forward through monetising government debt.

A Different Lens Live

Mireille Lahoud

A Different Lens Live

Episode 19: COVID-19 – Where to next?

In this first A Different Lens Live, an online panel of leading Monash academics discusses your burning questions about where to next regarding the coronavirus.

Stephen Turner Professor, Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute

In this first A Different Lens Live, an online panel of leading Monash academics discusses your burning questions about where to next regarding the coronavirus.

Andy Ruddock Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media Studies

TV and sympathy

Scott Morrison’s willingness to be vulnerable and show empathy during the COVID-19 crisis may well be vital to maintaining public trust and goodwill.

Scott Morrison’s willingness to be vulnerable and show empathy during the COVID-19 crisis may well be vital to maintaining public trust and goodwill.

Lynette Russell Professor and Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre

The threat to those most vulnerable

There's deep concern for the impact a second or third COVID-19 wave could have on Indigenous Australians.

There's deep concern for the impact a second or third COVID-19 wave could have on Indigenous Australians.

Work placements put Monash University medicine and pharmacy students on the COVID-19 frontline.

In the coronavirus line of fire

Work placements put Monash University medicine and pharmacy students on the COVID-19 frontline.

Monash University

Faith Gordon Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences

The forgotten children

The COVID-19 crisis further reinforces the urgent need to repatriate children of foreign fighters from conflict-ridden regions.

The COVID-19 crisis further reinforces the urgent need to repatriate children of foreign fighters from conflict-ridden regions.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon Director, Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social Sciences

Shutting the door on family violence

The now-closed Senate inquiry has added little to what we already know, and brings the government’s commitment to the problem of domestic violence into question.

The now-closed Senate inquiry has added little to what we already know, and brings the government’s commitment to the problem of domestic violence into question.

Nuri Veronika PhD candidate, Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre (Monash GPS)

A developing dilemma

In developing and conflict-affected countries, support systems for children’s protection in times of the pandemic risk being overlooked.

In developing and conflict-affected countries, support systems for children’s protection in times of the pandemic risk being overlooked.

Education

Reframing the youth perspective

An online digital exhibition provides a window into the often unheard stories of young people, and their experiences of education.

Christine Grove Lecturer, Education

An online digital exhibition provides a window into the often unheard stories of young people, and their experiences of education.

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.

Rashina Hoda Associate Professor, Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Faculty of IT

Harder, better, faster, stronger

It's the 'agile nations' that have led the way in combating the COVID-19 crisis.

It's the 'agile nations' that have led the way in combating the COVID-19 crisis.

Coronavirus