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Liveability ranking under threat

Volume 9 Number 11 November 11 - December 9 2013

 

Rebecca Scott speaks with Director of the Melbourne School of Design Professor Alan Pert about challenges to Melbourne’s liveability status.

Forging the future of healthy cities

Volume 9 Number 11 November 11 - December 9 2013

 

Louise Bennet speaks with Professor Billie Giles-Corti about her research background and the McCaughey VicHealth Centre’s role in leading a new National Centre of Excellence in Healthy, Equitable and Liveable cities.

The most liveable city?

Volume 9 Number 11 November 11 - December 9 2013

Locals are smugly satisfied every time Melbourne is named the world’s most liveable city, but what does that really mean?  What work is going on behind the scenes to make Melbourne ‘liveable’? And how will we retain our liveability crown in the face of growing population pressure and resource challenges? Life-long Melburnian Zoe Nikakis explores the issues.

Painting a true picture of Indigenous birth numbers

Volume 9 Number 10 October 14 - November 10 2013

 

Academics have long suspected that from colonisation Aboriginal births have been significantly under-reported across Australia. A new study has confirmed just how dramatic this distortion has been. Gabrielle Murphy reports.

Reaching out to Doxa cadets

Volume 9 Number 9 September 9 - October 14 2013

 

A small team of Melbourne PhD students has worked with the Doxa Youth Foundation to suggest better ways for them to reach their target audience of disadvantaged youth. By Rebecca Hobden.

Blazing tales: Australia’s relationship with bushfire

Volume 9 Number 9 September 9 - October 14 2013

 

Laura Soderlind speaks with researchers from the Centre for the History of Emotions who are preparing a major conference and large-scale investigation into the idea of fire shaping our national identity, and its various cultural representations.

Analysing psychoanalysis

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

 

Maya Chanthaphavong reviews the recently published Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy by the School of Culture and Communications’ Justin Clemens.

Festival of Ideas’ – the challenge to live well

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

 

Fiona Stanley has spent virtually her entire career working toward prevention of disease. By Katherine Smith

Introducing the royal baby (to pets)

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

 

As Prince George of Cambridge settles into his royal babyhood a University of Melbourne veterinary alumnus shares his advice on introducing the new baby to canine members of the Royal Family. Nerissa Hannink reports.

Method behind the magic

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

 

Starting out in one career and then moving in a different direction is not uncommon. But steering from a career in engineering and problem-solving to being a full-time magician sounds unlikely. Annie Rahilly discovers that the pathway is not so strange as she talks with Simon Coronel, a University of Melbourne graduate who uses his engineering and science background to better understand the art of illusion.

Two new Laureates for Melbourne

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

Silvia Dropulich speaks with Melbourne’s newest Laureate Professors.

Building capacity in Myanmar

Volume 9 Number 8 August 12 - September 8 2013

David Scott talks to some of the University of Melbourne researchers playing a leading role in helping Myanmar in its transition to a more open and democratic state.