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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

‘Violence at all levels’: UN report into the abuse of women and girls in sport is a wake-up call for Australia

A United Nations report details the violence that women and girls in sport face around the world – including Australia.

Politics and society

Carrots and sticks: Biodiversity conservation needs both to protect the environment

Research shows the vast majority of Australians aren’t opposed to the government introducing a range of stronger conservation-related policies.

Environment

A nature positive Australia: What does it mean and what will it take?

We all need to take steps to stop the alarming rates of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.

Sustainability

Episode 93: Can We Learn to Be More Civil?

In the final episode of season eight, “What Happens Next?” explores the importance of civility in a digital age, reminding us to recognise the humanity behind screens.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 85: Can Art Help Our Climate Anxiety?

Discover how music, fiction and other creative works can offer solace and foster empathy amid the complexities of climate change.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Putting a comically serious spin on loneliness in aged care

An ongoing “live gerontology” project illustrates – literally – aged care residents’ experience and understanding of loneliness, and how they address it.

Politics and society

Disinformation persists, and is gathering momentum

It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.

Politics and society

Cancel culture: A poorly-defined and polarising socioeconomic phenomenon

We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.

Politics and society

Paving the way for a new generation of Indigenous healthcare workers

Inspirational clinical psychology graduate Dr Victoria Gentile exemplifies the importance of Indigenous students in the future of healthcare, and shows why more are needed.

Medicine and health

AI, we need to talk: The divide between humanities and objective truth

Could our fascination with objectivity be the Pied Piper that led us to develop a machine some of us now fear and avoid?

Medicine and health

The inescapable truth of uncertainty

We all face it – whether we invite it in or not. From our workplaces to the societies within which we live, uncertainty is everywhere.

Medicine and health

Episode 79: Are Reproductive Rights Human Rights?

This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 78: Can We Take a Bite Out of Food Insecurity?

This week on Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast, meet the change-makers on the front lines of food.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Mental health scare: Women falling through the cracks

There’s an urgent need to recalibrate the mental healthcare sector so it better-serves those most in need.

Medicine and health

Unravelling the relationship of alcohol and club culture in women’s amateur football

New research examining the links between alcohol, players, gender, and club culture found that while alcohol is used as the social lubricant, over time the women had different priorities.

Medicine and health

A sad history of disability exclusion

The uncomfortable truths that make some disability inclusion barriers so hard to shift, leaving structural inequity entrenched.

Education

Listening to non-native English-speaking teachers could help solve shortage

We can partially solve the teacher supply crisis by first recognising the problems and taking action, including making processes easier for international educators.

Education

Episode 74: Hear Her Roar – Women’s Safety and Gender Equality

This week on Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, a live panel of experts in Australian politics and gender discuss the issues around gender equality and women's safety.

What Happens Next?

Pandemic diaries reveal the torrid toll of lockdown loneliness

New research shows Victoria’s COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbated existing loneliness among older people, leading to emotional suffering, and feelings of rejection.

Politics and society

Episode 68: Is Our Attention Slipping?

Season seven of Monash University’s podcast, ‘What Happens Next?’, kicks off with a focus on focus. Has the average attention span dropped in the age of social media and smartphones?

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Russian soldiers and the weaponisation of rape in war

Gang rape, sexual assaults at gunpoint, and rapes committed in front of children were among some of the accounts emerging from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv last month.

Politics and society

What does the rise of AI in agriculture mean for the future of farming?

With automation becoming increasingly widespread in industrial farming, new research examines the role and status of the “farmers” as they spend more and more time managing IT systems.

Politics and society

Rising through the ranks

Monash University is No.1 in the world for pharmacy and pharmacology, but what does that mean, and how are the university rankings calculated?

Medicine and health

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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

‘Violence at all levels’: UN report into the abuse of women and girls in sport is a wake-up call for Australia

Carrots and sticks: Biodiversity conservation needs both to protect the environment

A nature positive Australia: What does it mean and what will it take?

Episode 93: Can We Learn to Be More Civil?

Episode 85: Can Art Help Our Climate Anxiety?

Putting a comically serious spin on loneliness in aged care

Disinformation persists, and is gathering momentum

Cancel culture: A poorly-defined and polarising socioeconomic phenomenon

Paving the way for a new generation of Indigenous healthcare workers

AI, we need to talk: The divide between humanities and objective truth

The inescapable truth of uncertainty

Episode 79: Are Reproductive Rights Human Rights?

Episode 78: Can We Take a Bite Out of Food Insecurity?

Mental health scare: Women falling through the cracks

Unravelling the relationship of alcohol and club culture in women’s amateur football

A sad history of disability exclusion

Listening to non-native English-speaking teachers could help solve shortage

Episode 74: Hear Her Roar – Women’s Safety and Gender Equality

Pandemic diaries reveal the torrid toll of lockdown loneliness

Episode 68: Is Our Attention Slipping?

Russian soldiers and the weaponisation of rape in war

What does the rise of AI in agriculture mean for the future of farming?

Rising through the ranks