2024

20 September 2024

Is expensive house advertising affecting the property market?

Dr James Graham from the School of Economics explores the advertising landscape of real estate - do home owners get value for what they pay on advertising fees, and what could the impact of high fees be on the housing market more broadly?

20 September 2024

Opening statement at Senate Inquiry

Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Mark Scott today wrote to staff and students, after giving an opening statement and evidence before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee at the inquiry into antisemitism at universities.

20 September 2024

$2M for Aboriginal-led disability workforce research

Professor John Gilroy will lead a team of Aboriginal researchers on a research project that aims to identify ways to make the disability services sector an attractive occupation for the recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

19 September 2024

Optimism fuels national productivity and innovation

A study of 42 countries over a 20-year span found one factor had a significant impact on investment in research and development.

19 September 2024

Early dingoes are related to dogs from New Guinea and East Asia

The findings challenge previous claims that dingoes derived from pariah dogs from India or Thailand.

19 September 2024

"This is for Dad": First Indigenous professor in School of Education and Social Work

Lynette Riley, Chair of Aboriginal Education and Indigenous Studies, is the first Indigenous academic to be promoted to professor in the School of Education and Social Work. She shares her story of being first in her family, and community, to achieve such prestigious academic success.

18 September 2024

I think my child's weight is affecting their health. How can I best support them?

Weight fluctuation and change in body composition with growth is a normal part of development. Apart from the first year of life, teenage years' experience the most rapid increase in growth and development, writes the University of Sydney's Natalie Lister and Hiba Jebeile.

18 September 2024

What is Australia looking for in its inaugural poet laureate?

Peter Kirkpatrick in the Discipline of English and Writing asks what an Australian poet laureate will be expected to do or achieve ahead of the position's official appointment in 2025.

17 September 2024

Chau Chak Wing Museum wins national museum award

The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney has won the 2024 International Council of Museums (ICOM) Australia Institution Award. It is the first university museum to receive this award.

17 September 2024

Assassination attempts, pets and Taylor Swift: the US election is wild

Jared Mondschein from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney weighs in on whether the series of events in the lead up to the 2024 United States presidential election will have an impact on the result.