By Rezwan
Global Voices spoke with the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA) about their work and how it connects with COP30’s focus on justice, human rights, and a circular economy.
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By Sara Wilson, PhD Candidate, Communications, Simon Fraser University
In Canada, emergency communication is issued only in English and French, even in regions where Indigenous languages are widely spoken and recognized — an exclusion that compromises safety.
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By Joel Scanlan, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Privacy, University of Tasmania
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
Only time will tell whether Australia’s bold, world-first experiment will succeed. Despite this, it has set off a global reaction.
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By Vivian Gerrand, Associate Lecturer, Australian National University; Deakin University
Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender, Dublin City University
Josh Roose, Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University
Michael Flood, Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.
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By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Amy Haywood, Deputy Director, Education Program, Grattan Institute
Molly Chapman, Associate, Education Program, Grattan Institute
A new report details how student absences are changing post-pandemic. It also shows how Australia can look to England for ideas on what to do.
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By Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
A new survey shows parents and carers have strong ideas about how a program for kids with disability could be designed.
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By Ben Walker, Senior Lecturer (Organisational Behaviour), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Nimbus A. Staniland, Senior Lecturer (Management and International Business), University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
For some Indigenous peoples around the world, a day at work can mean experiencing repression, racism and regular reminders that we’re minorities in our own lands. Yet for others, work can be experienced as the exact opposite, as something that enables ourselves, our families and our communities to prosper.
What factors shape whether Indigenous employees experience their work as a source of strain or support? We’ve spent the past few years trying to answer this question by analysing as many studies of Indigenous…
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By Ray Laurence, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans still survive, in some form, thanks to their ingenious concrete and construction techniques.
However, there’s a lot we still don’t understand about exactly how the Romans made such strong concrete or built all those impressive buildings, houses, public baths, bridges and roads.
Scholars have long yearned for more physical evidence from Roman worksites to provide clues.
Now, a new…
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By Kat Nelligan, Lecturer in Music Industry, RMIT University
After a decade dabbling in different genres, Gaga’s return to gothic synth-pop reminds us why she became an icon in the first place.
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