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I recently finished a six-year doctoral research project on online discrimination against LGBTIQ people in my home country, Argentina.

Fancy learning the essentials of economics in just two lessons? School of Economics Professor John Quiggin has you covered with his new book.

The big-eyed, long-tailed thresher shark has become rare in Indonesian waters, but a University of Queensland Master's student is using funding from a conservation award to help protect them.

Runners from around Brisbane assembled at the UQ St Lucia campus to celebrate St Lucia parkrun’s first anniversary, dressed as their favourite superheroes.   

School of Public Health lecturer Dr Nina Hall explains the importance of World Water Day and how Australia still has a long way to go in ensuring that remote communities have the same access to clean, safe drinking water that is enjoyed by those in urban areas.

Law students are joining forces to tackle the trafficking of wildlife and animal products with a new combined course. UQ Law students joined their counterparts from Vienna and Zurich to trade knowledge and ideas and meet some of the animals they’d be working to save.

Most people have no idea how prevalent or deadly kidney disease is. More people die from kidney disease each year than from breast cancer or traffic accidents.

All over Australia volunteers answered the call to clean up their neighbourhoods. Clean-Up Australia Day has been a national institution since the first annual event in 1989. UQ volunteers collected quite a load of rubbish this year from the St Lucia riverbank.

School of Biomedical Science Associate Professor Michael Piper answers some questions about his research on rare diseases.

UQ Faculty of Medicine graduate Clare Van Dorssen is used to facing tough questions as co-host of Channel Nine’s BrainBuzz. But there’s one recurring question that’s important to Clare to answer.