- Professor Coral Gartner, from UQ's School of Public Health, analyses the potential effectiveness of the latest government vaping regulations and what the crackdown means for recreational vapers.
- Did you know there are over 20,700 different bee species in the world? UQ’s resident bee expert Dr Tobias Smith shares his top 7 most interesting facts about bees to help inform the public about the role the hard-working pollinators play in our delicate ecosystem.
- The current public debate about housing is focused on “silver bullet” solutions. What is needed is a comprehensive package of bold interventions, coordinated between all levels of government and the private sector.
- UQ experts analyse the 2023 federal budget and how it will impact various sectors across the country.
- Thanks to a recent gift of several photo albums to the Fryer Library by his widow Nina, Bruce Green's contribution to UQ can be remembered now and into the future.
- After 27 years at the helm, Professor Matthew Sanders, founder of Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, has retired from his role as the Parenting and Family Support Centre’s Foundation Director.
- One of Australia’s leading poets talks to Contact about how poetry has shaped her life, and winning the 2023 Stella Prize.
- UQ experts discuss whether TikTok users should be concerned, both for their safety while using the app and for the possibility of a widespread ban in Australia.
- UQ branding and marketing expert Dr Cassandra France breaks down the optics of this major global event and shares her analysis of the ‘Royal brand’ as it stands in 2023.
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- After acting in stage shows like 'The Lion King' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire', UQ PhD candidate Tim Richards has returned to his first love – dinosaurs – and has helped identify a major discovery in process.
- Brisbane has won the bid to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. So, what now? Contact asked UQ experts what steps are needed to keep the momentum rolling.
- From living with baboons in Ethiopia to surviving an encounter with polar bears in Canada. Find out how a chance meeting with Sir David Attenborough forever changed the life of UQ science graduate Dr Chadden Hunter.
- UQ graduates working in development, sustainability and national security discuss why our Pacific neighbours are so important.
- As the billionaires get ready to blast into space, who’s got the better plan?
- Is a vaccine passport a fair and safe way forward? How would it work? Can the tourism industry and businesses survive without one? And can we expect one any time soon?
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will benefit from the expansion of a UQ-led health project aimed at improving clinical care within primary health care services nationally.
- UQ science lecturer Jim Walker says the best way to achieve a national collective database describing the health of Australia’s regional and remote ecosystems is to work alongside Indigenous peoples.
- Marine creatures can see their environment in ways that are beyond the natural limits of human perception. For them, it’s a matter of survival; for us, it’s a source of wonder and innovation.
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- Australia’s renewable energy research capacity has been boosted with the completion of the UQ Warwick Solar Farm in 2020. UQ students are also gaining valuable experience that will help Queensland reach its renewable energy targets by 2030.
- Inspired by her naturalist grandfather and scholarly father, UQ graduate Margaret Thurgood had no choice but to go to university, even though this was not usual for women in the 1930s.
- Welcome to the final instalment of '11 Decades in 11 weeks at UQ'.
- Welcome to the final instalment of '11 Decades in 11 weeks at UQ'.
- Wear It Purple was founded in 2010 in response to global stories of real teenagers.
- $125m Warwick Solar Farm powers UQ to 100 per cent renewable.
- UQ graduate and journalist Andrew Kidd Fraser reflects on his time at university during a period of political change, and tells why UQ was still the place to be as Brisbane fought to shake itself from its dull slumber.
- Contact heads to the archives to bring you the best images from the past 110 years. This week, we look back on 1990–2000.
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- As the billionaires get ready to blast into space, who’s got the better plan?
- Is a vaccine passport a fair and safe way forward? How would it work? Can the tourism industry and businesses survive without one? And can we expect one any time soon?
- How does a university tackle the issue of freedom of speech on campus? By having a free discussion about speech – on campus.
- UQ experts put our drinking habits under the microscope and discuss how our casual relationship with alcohol is impacting our health.
- 'Contact' speaks to young UQ experts to gather their tips on how to approach your next networking event.
- More than a year into the pandemic, UQ experts check in on the state of the employment sector.
- Top execs share their stories of imposter syndrome and how they overcame it.
- On 17 May each year, LGBTIAQ+ communities and their allies celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
- UQ student Chelsea Morrigan reflects on how transphobia – both from the world around her, and from within herself – shaped her identity on her journey to transition.
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