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How Can We Balance Work and Play?

Play has the power to boost focus, innovation and wellbeing. A new “What Happens Next?” episode offers expert insights into its transformative effects.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Where are the Muslim girls and women in STEM?

Muslim girls are one among many minority groups underrepresented in STEM in Australia. Diversity is important, not just ethically and socially, but also economically.

Technology and engineering

Money talks: Funding fuels gender inequity in STEMM leadership

With an unavoidable reduction in research output, women are forced out of science at earlier stages in their careers.

Medicine and health

Matters of the heart: The med-tech innovations three generations in the making

For Dr Faezeh Marzbanrad, engineering a solution for more intuitive foetal heart monitoring was born out of personal experience.

Technology and engineering

Continental drift: From Kenya to Melbourne, meeting the malaria challenge head-on

Jomo Kigotho knows from personal experience the devastating impacts of malaria. Now, the young scientist is part of a team that’s found a new weapon in the war against the disease-causing parasite.

Medicine and health

Episode 45: Bias in AI – Teaching machines to think responsibly

If humans are programming artificial intelligence, are we stuck with the human biases that inadvertently work their way into AI systems?

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 31: A Matter Of Time

We’re kicking off Series 4 of What Happens Next by looking back, way back. This time we’ll ponder what happens if we stop exploring natural history – what would we lose?

What Happens Next?

Piecing together the brain puzzle

Brain development in babies with Down syndrome has been a bit of a mystery – until now. Ana's research looks at understanding Down Syndrome and uses MRI to scan pregnant women and their newborn babies to gather detailed data about growth, structure and function of the brain.

Monash Life | Science and tech

ADL live: Matters of the heart

Cardiovascular disease is Australia’s greatest health problem and our biggest killer, costing our economy $7 billion each year. Changing it requires researchers to rethink the problem.

A Different Lens Live

Are 'smart' solutions really that smart?

Should the word apply to an application that’s difficult to use and doesn’t take human needs into account?

Technology and engineering

A path to potential

A new advocacy group aims to address gender imbalance in science by helping map the career trajectories of early-to-mid-career researchers through promotion of their existing research achievements.

Celebrating women

Breaking stereotypes in STEM

Newcrest Mining manager Bonnie Coxon is breaking down stereotypes around the mining industry as she promotes the benefits of STEM to girls in schools.

Monash Life Magazine

Met at Monash

Friendships, marriages and business partnerships continue to be forged at Monash.

Culture

Changing the story for preschool girls

Conceptual playworlds are turning preschool into a pipeline for female engineers.

Education

Taking a cue from Fearless Girl

The message of empowerment and equality needs to be widely embraced in the engineering profession.

Celebrating women

Breaking the art of glass

New research aims to unlock the structural mystery of glass in order to make it stronger.

Celebrating women

Gender equality: it's everyone's business

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

Politics and society

Hook, line and original thinker

A trailblazer for professional women in the tough world of mechanical engineering and mining, Sarah Coleman is also saving Australian industries money through productivity improvements. And she’s a fishing champion.

Engineering