Miscellaneity

Dr Gilbert Price, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, writes about his team's research into megafauna and how a study into a 3,000 kg giant wombat-like Diprotodon evolved to teach us about how ancient ecosystems operated.

Andreia Virmond has managed to balance motherhood, a marriage, a professional career and capoeira – but it hasn’t been without its challenges. Here the UQ Sport staffer examines the microcosm of feminism in martial arts.

If you ask someone what they think of when they hear the word ‘witch’ most people will come up with a similar image: old, haggard, ugly, bent-nosed, broomstick-laden and, above all, female.

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.

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

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.

Graduate and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences sessional academic Melanie Saward is a successful writer, singer and academic, but in some circles, she won’t earn society’s respect until she has a husband.