2018

02 October 2018

‘Come by’ the working dog survey page

Effective working dogs improve farm productivity and significantly reduce stress on farm managers and livestock so it’s unsurprising they are known to replace human labour in livestock enterprises.

02 October 2018

How to find your best time to study abroad

Studying overseas opens up a world of possibilities and global perspectives – and it’s never been easier. There's an ideal program for every student. The first step is to find your ‘mobility window’.

02 October 2018

Verge Festival: the inside scoop

Live music, night markets and side-splitting comedy gigs – you don’t want to miss this year’s Verge Festival happening on campus from 8 – 12 October. It’s a week of pop-up attractions produced by students, for students.

01 October 2018

What's up with universal basic income?

What’s one thing Milton Friedman, Richard Branson, Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King Jnr, Eva Cox, Elon Musk, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mark Zuckerberg have in common?

01 October 2018

Sydney Business Insights: Must-listen podcasts

Discover new insights into the future of business with podcast episodes from The Future, This Week and In Conversation.

01 October 2018

The disruptors redesigning fashion's future

Husband and wife duo Dean Jones (BCom (Hons) ’10) and Audrey Khaing-Jones (BCom ’09) are on a mission to shake up the way women consume clothes by building fashion’s answer to the sharing economy.

01 October 2018

Empowering women

As a wellness entrepreneur and former MMA fighter, Tricia Yap is an advocate for female empowerment and a key influencer in the women’s wellness space in Hong Kong.

01 October 2018

RARE Opportunities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders elders and rural community leaders are looking for innovative ways to solve entrenched social and financial problems.

01 October 2018

Blockchain: Bust or brave new world

The hype cycle, a concept popularised by Gartner, theorises that all transformative technology goes through a steep upward trajectory of excitement then a bust which leads to disillusionment before gradual long-term productivity is finally achieved.

01 October 2018

Beyond the Pale: Cultural Diversity on ASX 100 Listed Boards

Seven strategies to progress the conversation on cultural diversity on Australian boards.

01 October 2018

Building cities for our future

Our world is changing rapidly – technological process is accelerating, people and technology are becoming more interconnected, people are living longer and, urban populations are increasing faster than ever.

01 October 2018

Labour trends in China

Overseeing the operations of more than 150 recruiters in seven offices across mainland China, Terry Shen meets some of the top talent impacting their industries and has a front-row seat to watch the country transform.

28 September 2018

University team develops antibacterial surfaces for bone implants

A University team has found a solution to tackle the infection rate following joint replacement surgery by developing a non-toxic silver nanoparticle plasma coating.

28 September 2018

How does architecture impact our lives?

To celebrate World Architecture Day, Senior Lecturer Michael Muir and a group of our students told us about their favourite buildings, design heroes and what architecture means to them.

28 September 2018

How we made nutrition our business

With a passion for all things food and science, Anna and Alex pursued postgraduate study to build a career in both. Now accredited practising dietitians, they share the journey that led them to run their own nutritional myth-busting business.

28 September 2018

Agriculture students make clean sweep at Crops Competition

Competitors from across Australia and the US have taken their lecture knowledge into the field in a hands-on test of their skills in agronomy, live crop-yield potential, and plant and disease identification.

28 September 2018

Banking Royal Commission: Five things you need to know

How could the Banking Royal Commission impact you as a consumer? And what brought about the Commission? University of Sydney experts explain what you need to know about the interim report release.

27 September 2018

Building food utopias: amplifying voices, dismantling power

As the number of food movement groups promoting different, yet overlapping, food and agriculture solutions continue to increase, it is essential that they include not only the voices of people from diverse backgrounds but their leadership, too.

27 September 2018

NSW HSC no longer includes women’s contributions to physics

The new Higher School Certificate (HSC) physics syllabus for NSW will contain no mention of the contributions of female physicists to the field.

27 September 2018

How Jordan O'Reilly is fixing disability support with a mobile app

Before he was the founder and CEO of Hireup, one of Australia’s most talked about purposeful businesses, Jordan O’Reilly was a brother on a mission to change the lives of people living with disability.