Are more people lonelier today? In this talk, epidemiologist and population behavioural scientist Melody Ding takes us through the trends and predictors of loneliness and why it’s a public health issue.
Sydney Ideas is delighted to welcome back Professor Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School), a leading author and academic on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning, along with local experts to unpack the challenges
Her research compares public opinion and elections, political institutions and cultures, gender politics, and political communications in many countries worldwide.
Do we need to broaden the frame and look at the whole picture, and add sustainability and climate change to our health risk list? How do communities recover from more frequent natural disaster and severe weather occurences?
If you went to Europe, until about the 1980s, opinion polls were basically unknown on the continent, you couldn't do an opinion poll, people wouldn't tell you how they
Why are soldiers taking their own lives? Our expert panel brings together medical experts and social scientists to discuss the growing problem of military suicide - why is it happening and how should it be addressed politically? In 2015 more
Art and neuroplasticity: are they linked? Innovation Week celebrates the ground breaking discoveries and transformative inventions from our academics and students. We can make art – in all its forms – because of the way the brain works, but what
She is a regular columnist for Indonesia’s Kompas Newspaper as well as Tempo Magazine and writes opinions for various national and international media.
Is art more truthful than science? Australian dramatist Alana Valentine, poet Tricia Dearborn and scientists Geraint Lewis, Tara Murphy and Zdenka Kuncic explore some home truths as they face off for a lively debate about the authenticity of art and