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This is a blog about my experience as a Filipino-Australian woman in research - detailing how affirmative action in relation to workplace diversity and inclusion has been important in helping shape my career.

The horror of witnessing a child begging for food in Laos turned Nina Sackprasith into a social entrepreneur. Now, The University of Queensland graduate supports girls in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, to get an education.

UQ Child Health Research Centre Virologist Associate Professor Ian Mackay and Honorary Lecturer Dr Katherine Arden discuss the unseasonal flu wreaking havoc on emergency departments across Australia and the changing tide of these evolving viruses.

Isabelle Peart talks about her experience as an intern at the United Nations Women Asia and the Pacific, and life as an exchange student in Indonesia.  

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City. This uprising is largely credited as the foundation of the modern LGBTIAQ+ rights movement in the United States of America. The event itself was started by a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, leading the patrons to fight back, with protests and conflicts following for days and weeks afterwards. But what was happening in Brisbane? UQ Masters student Wolfram-J VK explains.

Queensland-based social entrepreneurs Bradley Clair and Nicholas Kamols founded PowerWells in 2017 after attending a Startup Weekend at Substation33: a social enterprise and innovation lab.

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.