A group of people standing on the steps of a building holding awards.

Champions of inclusive education have been celebrated at this year’s University of Queensland Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

2 November 2021
The cave in the forest in Kenya with the excavation team working at the mouth

The remains of a child buried almost 80,000 years ago under an overhang at Panga ya Saidi cave in Kenya is providing important new details about the development of complex social behaviours.

6 May 2021
A group of about 16 men from PNG stand watching something over a fence, some with cameras

Until this week, it did not occur to most Australians to ask themselves how our nearest neighbours in Papua New Guinea were faring with coronavirus, according to UQ Adjunct Professor Ian Kemish.

18 March 2021
Sarah Kendall, Professor Peter Greste, Richard Murray and Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh ... advocating for a “journalism-based exemption from criminality”. Photo: UQ.

Journalists must be protected from prosecution in a much-needed overhaul of Australia’s Espionage Act 2018, according to a group of academics pushing for reform.

1 March 2021
Has anything changed in the way people parent?

UQ’s Triple P- Positive Parenting Program Executive Officer John Pickering discusses the growing and seemingly widespread view that parents these days aren’t doing a good job.

13 January 2015

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would be an elective next year and mandatory in 2016...

18 December 2014

Think you can tell when people are lying? After decades of accepted methods for detecting lies, communications PhD student Edward Reynolds may have a case for challenging those tactics.

20 September 2010

Professor at UQ's School of Economics, John Quiggin, has called for an election to restart the debate over the sale of the State government's coal assets.

15 July 2010
Professor Alan Lopez

While Australia is one of the healthiest countries in the world for adults, the child mortality rate could be improved, according to new research co-authored by University of Queensland Professor of Medical Statistics and Population Health, Alan...

24 May 2010

The University of Queensland has joined a consortium trialling a new support program for families caring for relatives with mental illness.

28 January 2010