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Indigenous scholarship helps big things grow

Thomas Scanlan, a young Indigenous man, with Kev Carmody, an older Indigenous man. They are standing in front of a large mural of Kev playing guitar.

Indigenous scholarship helps big things grow

The inaugural recipient of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland Kev Carmody Scholarship met the celebrated singer-songwriter at the official unveiling of a mural at the St Lucia campus.

28 March 2023

Improving Indigenous health with a good night’s sleep

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Improving Indigenous health with a good night’s sleep

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland and Beyond Blue have partnered to deliver culturally responsive sleep health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in Queensland.

16 March 2023

Australia’s largest literary database hits one million records

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Australia’s largest literary database hits one million records

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s AustLit project, to catalogue and celebrate Australia’s literary history, this week officially marks one million records.

15 March 2023

Artists imagine new energy future in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Art Museum exhibition

A room with dark walls is filled with an art installation of industrial mining equipment repurposed into musical instruments.

Artists imagine new energy future in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Art Museum exhibition

Extraction, extinction and post-carbon futures are explored by Australian and international artists in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Art Museum’s first group exhibition for 2023, We Are Electric.

10 February 2023

Study reveals truth behind Indigenous female deaths in custody

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Study reveals truth behind Indigenous female deaths in custody

A University of Queensland study found many Indigenous women who died in custody had not been sentenced by a court, but were on remand or in protective custody.

9 February 2023

Salty and sustainable – a bush food with business potential

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Salty and sustainable – a bush food with business potential

A group of plants used by First Nations Australians as food, animal fodder and medicine could be a nutritious alternative to salt, according to University of Queensland research.

7 February 2023

Indigenous graduate’s chance pathway to medicine

A woman with long black hair is smiling at the camera, she is wearing a graduation cap and gown over a white dress and is standing in the sandstone cloisters of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s Great Court.

Indigenous graduate’s chance pathway to medicine

University of Queensland graduate Dr Ella Ceolin can partly thank school holiday boredom for setting her on a career path in medicine.

14 December 2022

Transformative Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ research centres to tackle global challenges

Transformative Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ research centres to tackle global challenges

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland will establish three Centres of Excellence to tackle major global challenges and opportunities.

4 November 2022

Securing global food supply focus of international agriculture conference

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Securing global food supply focus of international agriculture conference

Feeding the world’s spiralling population amidst the ravages of climate change will be the focus of a major agriculture conference which gets underway in Brisbane today.

31 October 2022

Disadvantaged children missing out on meals in childcare

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Disadvantaged children missing out on meals in childcare

Researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland have found children in disadvantaged communities often go hungry when they attend early education and childcare centres.

21 October 2022

Research shows water fluoridation is safe for children

child fills a glass at a water tap

Research shows water fluoridation is safe for children

Research from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has found no link between community water fluoridation and adverse effects to children’s brain development.

10 October 2022

Peer coaching aims to rejuvenate devastated arts industry

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Peer coaching aims to rejuvenate devastated arts industry

A free University of Queensland peer coaching program, designed to help rebuild the arts and culture sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to go global.

7 September 2022

Marching with a mission: Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers help document history

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Marching with a mission: Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ researchers help document history

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022

Knots that bind - Sonja Carmichael's journey to reclaim Quandamooka weaving

A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Knots that bind - Sonja Carmichael's journey to reclaim Quandamooka weaving

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022

The importance of language and connection to Country

Dylan Berger

The importance of language and connection to Country

Dylan Berger is set to explore how language is a living form of Indigenous Knowledge, as the inaugural recipient of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Indigenous Languages Scholarship.

1 August 2022
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