Welcome to Small Change

UQ Dean and Head of Business School Professor Julie Cogin discusses the barriers women face in the workplace, and how to empower them.

My name is Krystian. I want to live in a world where I am comfortable being open about my trans experience.

“Who I am is far more than the gender transition I went through once, and outside the context of receiving healthcare, the trans label is one that I view as completely unnecessary”. Ahead of the Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, UQ’s Paige Wilcox shares her journey.

So much has progressed in the battle for equity, but so much needs to be done. Head of School for UQ's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch, explains how a research network of humanities scholars is set to grapple with the topic of women and power.

How do you increase diversity in STEM across the globe? UQ PhD candidate Ariel Marcy is using her scientific knowledge to create games to encourage children to pursue science. Ariel shares her hopes for a more scientific and creative world.

UQ alumnus Henry Noller wasn't sure the exact moment his life changed, but he knew after completing the MIT Future of Sustainablity bootcamp in Brisbane, his life would never be the same again.

What is intersectionality and why does it matter? UQ Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Senior Manager Jordan Tredinnick explains.

My son was 10 months old and the breasts that had provided the ‘good stuff’ to him were coming off. Soon after the mastectomy, I allowed a surgeon to end my chances of a second child by removing all my female internal organs. My son’s grandmother – the mother who’d raised me single-handedly – was dead. I’d developed her disease – familial breast cancer – an aggressive type, four years after her last breath

Juggling life as a researcher and a single mother has been the biggest challenge faced by UQ Centre for Clinical Research chief investigator Dr Hanna Sidjabat. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Dr Sidjabat shares her journey from an Indonesian student to a researcher in Australia.

The messages from these women are unmistakable: Gender Matters. UQ’s gender studies course has had profound effects on the students who take it, and those who deliver it.