Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity: a looming healthcare crisis?
The most common causes of death in Australia are chronic non-communicable diseases related to lifestyle. Despite great improvements in treatments and outcomes, more Australians are developing diseases...
16 Aug 20161h 5min
Sydney Science Festival: Grandmothers and Human Evolution
The Grandmother Hypothesis aims to explain why increased longevity evolved in humans, while female fertility still ends at the same age it does in our closest evolutionary cousins, the great apes. Beg...
15 Aug 20161h 30min
Linda Tirado: The Poverty of Elections
US author and activist, Linda Tirado explains the rise of Trump and suggests what can and should be done about it. Across the Western world, we’re seeing a resurgence in plain populism. The blame fo...
11 Aug 20161h 3min
Storyology 2016: investigative journalism, cross-border crime, corruption, and accountability
A Storyology 2016 event co-presented with the Walkley Foundation Investigative and public-service journalism shine a light on the world’s dark corners. In today’s globally connected world, leaked doc...
10 Aug 201656min
Is Sydney Losing Its Edge?
Part of the 2016 Festival of Urbanism. A conversation on the divergence of Sydney and Melbourne’s cultural policy between the University of Melbourne’s Dr Kate Shaw and the University of Sydney’s Dr...
8 Aug 20161h 11min
Professor Peter Shergold: Re-imagining Public Service
The vocation of public service remains a cornerstone of Australian democracy. Yet its traditional virtues are under pressure. Too often exciting innovations have remained at the periphery, failing to ...
4 Aug 20161h 22min
Insights 2016: Professor Adam Morton on For a Political Economy of Space and Place
Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? A talk by Univeristy of Sydney Professor A...
4 Aug 20161h 9min
Dean's Lecture Series. Dr Marjorie Aunos on Parenting with Disabilities
At 35 years of age Dr Marjorie Aunos had made a name for herself nationally and internationally as a leading practitioner-researcher and advocate for parents with intellectual disabilities. In her own...
3 Aug 201657min
