2021

Articles

Donation from Penelope Seidler creates Visual Understanding Initiative

A generous gift will improve students' visual literacy and help researchers understand how images shape the world.

International student spotlight: Study at Sydney and online

When COVID-19 hit, international student Urvashi Bandhu had just started her second year. She doubted if classes could be run online effectively and whether she would cope. Now, she quite enjoys it and says it shouldn't deter students from enrolling.

Vale Helge Larsen (1929-2021)

In complement with his eminent creative legacy, Helge Larsen made a profoundly important contribution to Sydney College of the Arts and the broader University of Sydney community.

Supporting HSC students’ research projects

An innovative consultation process designed by the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies helps over two hundred HSC students through one-to-one interviews.

Fancy footwork, butting heads: 5 experts talk UEFA

On Monday morning, the UEFA Euro 2020 will see soccer heavyweights, England and Italy, go head-to-head with hundreds of millions tuning in. Experts discuss the grand final, sports science and soccer's role in culture and society.

How children can help Aboriginal Elders during lockdown

Mutual caring between Kinship and foster carers and the children in their custody emerged as a silver lining during last year's lockdown, a new report finds.

First Nations academic paving the way for diversity and inclusion

As a Kamilaroi woman who became vision impaired as a child and is now working at the University’s Indigenous Research Hub, Dr Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes reflects on her day-to-day job as an advocate, researcher and academic.

Facebook still allowing hate speech on public pages

Researchers at the University of Sydney and University of Queensland are calling on Facebook to do more consultation and offer better training for page moderators to respond to online hate speech in the Asia Pacific region.

Victim blaming can affect trial outcomes

Child protection documents are often proffered as evidence in court cases. A new analysis finds the language used in these documents can adversely affect mothers and children who are subject to domestic and family violence.

With research, communities should lead and academics follow

Historically, research was done 'on' communities. A new generation of researchers seeks to reverse this harmful practice. They say the goals of a newer, more beneficial method - community-led research - will only be fulfilled when communities take the research reins.

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