Paris, Milan and New York may spring to mind when you think of the world’s fashion capitals – but University of Queensland researcher Dr Toni Johnson-Woods is on a mission to prove that some of the most interesting styles are on the streets of...
4 March 2013
University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.
26 January 2012Let’s be honest, when it comes to Brisbane's Ekka what do we remember? Lollies and sample bags!
12 August 2011War, Shakespeare, Frankenstein, MasterChef, Royal wedding fashions, Toy Story and James Bond will be discussed at a popular culture conference beginning this week in Auckland.
27 June 2011University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.
8 February 2011Lollies, zombies and serial killers, ginger beer, tea and restaurant critics will all come under the spotlight at the first PopCAANZ (Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand) conference in Sydney this week.
29 June 2010Romance fiction will ignite discussion at The University of Queensland this week as part of Australia’s first annual conference on popular romance studies.
11 August 2009As Valentine’s Day draws near, UQ senior lecturer Toni Johnson-Woods is keeping the flames burning as she delves deep into some of Australia’s most titillating 1950s’ romance fiction.
13 February 2009This weekend, take a step back to another age – an age when crime fiction came over the airwaves, Greek cafes were a mainstay on every street corner and children filled their pockets with lollies for small change.
15 April 2008A team of UQ researchers is well advanced on social, media and engineering planning for when NASA lands its announced human exploration missions on the Moon in 2020 and on Mars by 2037.
1 October 2007Listening to radio plays sounds like a nice way to pass a few hours, but for the next eight weeks, it’s Dr Toni Johnson-Woods’ full-time job.
14 June 2007For UQ Ipswich graduate Toni Risson, writing her first book has been child's play. Licking Lizards will be published by University of Queensland Press in July.
3 February 2005Some of Australia’s best-known literary hoaxes are examined in detail in a new book to be launched this month.
2 February 2005Before reality TV, trashy magazines, computer games or Quentin Tarantino movies, many Australians in the 1940s and 50s received their popular culture fix from a different type of “pulp fiction”.
1 November 2004There’s not much left of the pulp fiction churned out by Australia’s publishing “factories” in the 1940s and 1950s.
10 July 2002Is Big Brother actually about anything at all?.
15 June 2001Big Brother has been running in over 15 countries with some countries giving it a second or third run. Cultural differences have meant that some countries' audiences have taken to the show more than others'.
7 June 2001Gossip plays an important role in a wide variety of social settings and, this week, the gossip-mill has gone wild in the Big Brother house.
1 June 2001Language use and discussion topics in the Big Brother house have evolved in ways similar to the BB houses in other countries.
18 May 2001The way in which a reality TV program is produced depends not just on the funding available for the show but also the impression the producers are trying to create.
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