By Scott Duncan, Professor of Population Health, Auckland University of Technology
Melody Smith, Professor of Health Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Play is often treated as something we grow out of, yet evidence shows playfulness remains vital for adult wellbeing. Rethinking our spaces could help bring it back.
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By Hal Pawson, Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW Sydney
Social housing is being built at the fastest pace since the 1980s. But we are still leaving hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for a home.
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By Caroline Gurvich, Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist, Monash University
Eveline Mu, Research Fellow in Women's Mental Health, Monash University
Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
The idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain is more than half a century old. The reality is more complex.
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By Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
Private companies selling ‘intelligence as a service’ are changing the face of intelligence and how private and personal data is used.
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By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Even before the film’s release, the costumes for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights caused controversy.
Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 and the story switches back and forth in time between 1801 and the 1770s. But Cathy’s wedding dress references an entirely different era, inspired by a 1951 Charles James haute couture gown. Cathy…
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By Kevin Foster, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
Shot, stabbed, poisoned with frog toxin – a new book reveals how the killing of political opponents has emerged from the shadows of government secrecy.
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By Stephanie Kivlin, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
Aimee Classen, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Lara A. Souza, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
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By Sandeep Pai, Senior Lead, International Energy Transitions and Executive in Residence, Duke University
Jennifer Lee Broadhurst, Professor emeritus, University of Cape Town
The South African government and coal industry need to move fast to set up a plan to turn old coal mines and power stations into job-creating hubs after they close.
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By Kennedy Mkutu, Associate Professor, International Relations, United States International University
Jan Bachmann, Senior Lecturer , University of Gothenburg
The sun is rising in Kenya’s Kajiado county, just outside Nairobi, and a truck is rumbling over dusty ground towards a riverbank. Young men guide the driver to a parking spot and then spring into action, each with a scoop, filling the truck from a heap of the most desirable building sand for which the area is famous.
The driver passes the time with a snack and a mug of tea poured from a flask by a mobile vendor. He pays each of the young men around US$10 for their labour and the landowner US$40-US$50 for the sand. The driver then starts out on his journey to deliver sand to hardware…
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By Debbie Collier, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work, University of the Western Cape
Communities in South Africa continue to be fractured by service delivery failures, crime and gang-related violence. The impact is felt by families and communities, and in schools,
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