Dr Chris Hay for the UQ Drama: Building Pathways to Creative Careers team and right, Dr Kay Colthorpe

The University of Queensland celebrated excellence in teaching and learning at Brisbane’s Customs House last night.

30 October 2018
Prisoners in Boggo Road Gaol

Stories from Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Gaol during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era are the inspiration for a new play by The University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Rob Pensalfini.

30 October 2017

From filming a full crime drama to creating intensive mathematics tutorials, exceptional teachers at The University of Queensland are transforming the way students learn.

1 November 2016
Dr Pensalfini in character during a prison production of Julius Caesar

The Bard has gone behind bars 400 years after his death and the results have been published in a ground-breaking book by University of Queensland academic Associate Professor Rob Pensalfini.

25 January 2016
Budding film-makers and actors at the St Lucia Campus Kindergarten.

Movie stars and film-makers as young as three are heading for the big screen, with their very own film festival at The University of Queensland.

20 November 2013

Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble transports Shakespeare to the Wild West with their unique interpretation of one of his earliest comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

23 July 2012

The University of Queensland acknowledged the significant contributions made by staff, students and alumni to equity and diversity at the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards held on Thursday, 24 May 2012.

25 May 2012

Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a UQ-hosted conference recently.

26 April 2012

The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble will next week host a leading US director who has used the bard to reach out to prison inmates.

7 October 2011
UQ linguistics researcher Dr Felicity Meakins with Gurindji woman Violet Wadrill Nanaku

As the number of Aboriginal languages dwindles, UQ researchers are intensifying their studies to protect and document those that remain.

2 September 2011

The witches of Macbeth have never looked quite like those currently rehearsing at Borallon prison.

14 April 2010

Be transported to another world when the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble presents a free, unique performance of the popular children’s book, Where The Wild Things Are.

13 October 2009

Lose yourself in a world where madcap, lovelorn characters mix with live music and song when UQ’s resident theatre company takes over the Roma Street Parkland this week.

5 October 2009

Next week will mark a milestone production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar when it is performed by inmates of the maximum-security Borallon Correctional Centre.

24 April 2009
Dr Rob Pensalfini

Shakespeare’s work speaks to people from all walks of life, as Dr Rob Pensalfini knows first hand.

12 February 2009

University of Queensland teachers have been singled out for exceptional standards of teaching with nine Carrick Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

10 August 2007

A UQ lecturer will examine modern psychology through ancient mythology in a performance showing at Metro Arts from November 8.

31 October 2006

The VIII World Shakespeare Congress, to be hosted by The University of Queensland in July, has inspired a troupe of actors to invade the state’s highest court.

29 May 2006

The intrigue and drama of Shakespeare’s plays will help prisoners control their raw emotions when a University of Queensland academic leads a world-first program in a Queensland prison.

19 May 2006