2024

Articles

27 March 2024

University of Sydney researchers to inform government on jobs, skills and immigration

Three University of Sydney academics have had their research expertise recognised with appointments to councils informing Australian government policy in the critical areas of jobs and skilled immigration policy.
05 March 2024

Syrian refugee awarded UN Women Australia MBA scholarship

From Paris to Damascus, Erbil and now Sydney, this global citizen aims to blaze a trail for women in leadership everywhere she goes.
04 March 2024

Making cost-benefit analysis more relevant when reducing social exclusion matters

Professor John Stanley explores the recent shift in land use transport (LUT) policy priorities towards reducing social exclusion, highlighting the challenge in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of monetising societal benefits.
28 February 2024

Sydney attracts top research talent with innovative Fellowships

Unprecedented investment in appointment of 40 research fellows across a range of disciplines.
15 February 2024

Lifelong learning with Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu

A passion for social justice led Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu naturally towards medicine. Her desire to pursue even bigger goals was the catalyst to undertake a Global Executive MBA.
14 February 2024

Sydney University's MBA ranks first in Australia

The University of Sydney Business School's MBA is the highest new entrant in the prestigious Financial Times global MBA rankings.
13 February 2024

Football triumphs and financial heights 

From the football field to investment banking, Yanni Plataniotis' journey underscores the power of persistence, passion, and seizing opportunities.
08 February 2024

Smartphones mean we're always available to our bosses. 'Right to disconnect' laws are a necessary fix

Availability creep has led to significant unpaid overtime which "takes workers away from a fair day's work for a fair day's pay", writes Associate Professor Chris F Wright for The Conversation.
05 February 2024

Optimism key to greening the global financial system

The transition away from fossil fuels requires a significant and global shift towards sustainable investment, and institutional investors are key.
05 February 2024

How value adding is AI for strategic transport planning? Is AI Intelligent or simply a descriptive information dump?

Professor David Hensher reflects on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative-AI (G-AI), in strategic transport planning, discussing its adaptability to diverse and unpredictable future scenarios, highlighting concerns about the limitations of G-AI in predicting situations with high divergence and emphasizing the need for utilizing hidden data not captured by AI.