Welcome to Small Change

Located in an underwhelming brick office building with a chiropractor, massage parlour and finance broker, the Go1 office looks like your average suburban business. However, beyond this modest façade is a thriving e-learning start-up with eager young tech and business professionals, funky collaborative workspaces and a growing presence overseas.

Maybe it's the lack of mobile phone coverage or the way everyone is dressed in thongs and boardies, but Heron Island Research Station doesn’t feel like a place of business. There’s a relaxed "not a problem" attitude from almost everyone you encounter. But underneath the smell of sunscreen and salt is a team of staff and researchers fiercely passionate about their work.

UQ graduate and social entrepreneur Freeda Thong is passionate about the environment, and has found a unique way to help protect it. She is the founder of Ecopads Australia – cloth sanitary pads with a cause – and her impact has been recognised at the Queensland Young Achievers Awards where she was a semi-finalist in the Environmental and Sustainability category. Here’s her story.

Even though Schonell Theatre has all the digital bells and whistles – they still like to keep the stunning old 1920s film reel machine around. Theatre manager Ross Martin compares the technologies of last century and today.

United States graduate Erik Simmons recounts the stress, the searching, the breakthrough and how he ended up with the PhD project of his dreams at UQ.

From the University of Queensland Press comes the multi-award-winning author of The Protected and The Sky So Heavy comes a new masterpiece that tackles grief, family, and connections to music and surf.

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on the planet because they can transmit the causes of a wide range of serious human diseases. The most recent front page mosquito-borne disease is caused by Zika virus. 

Studying Social Work as a mature aged student in my forties was not a quick decision, but one that is continually providing opportunities that have helped me realise I made the right choice.

G’day! Here in Brizzy we are on the verge of winter, the sun is shining, the locals are complaining that it’s cold and the shops are full of winter clothes… last time I checked it was 26 degrees. If this is an Australian, sorry ‘stralyan, winter, I could definitely get used to it.

Fear of dying – or death anxiety – is often considered to be one of the most common fears. Interestingly though, neither of the two widely used diagnostic psychiatric manuals, DSM-5 or ICD-10, has a specific listing for death anxiety.