2022

01 September 2022

SEI announces applications open for collaborative funding schemes

The Sydney Environment Institute is inviting applications for the 2023 Collaborative Grants Scheme, which includes fellowships and seed funding to develop multidisciplinary research projects on core environmental issues.

31 August 2022

Reconnecting with peers on the PhD pathway

While doing a PhD can sometimes feel like a solo journey, it doesn’t have to be a lonely one, writes University of Sydney researcher Dadung Ibnu Muktiono.

31 August 2022

ARC Laureate Fellow asks 'How old are the stars?'   

Professor Tim Bedding, from the School of Physics in the Faculty of Science, will receive almost $2.5 million from the Australian Research Council to look inside stars in extraordinary detail and measure their ages with unprecedented precision.

31 August 2022

R U OK? It's never a bad time to ask

You don't have to be an expert to have an R U OK? conversation. We all have what it takes to ask, listen, and support one another.

31 August 2022

Fixing Australia's teacher shortage

Professor Anthony Welch from the School of Education and Social Work examines whether bringing in more teachers from overseas, as proposed by politicians, will really fix Australia's "unprecedented" teacher shortage.

31 August 2022

Natural virus predators offer potential alternative to antibiotics

Researchers at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney Local Health District and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research are developing a therapeutic solution to antimicrobial resistance that predates the discovery and wide usage of antibiotics.

31 August 2022

Vice-Chancellor addresses National Press Club

Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Mark Scott AO, addressed the National Press Club today, speaking about the University's new 10-year strategy and the important role higher education plays in our community.

31 August 2022

Trades need reform to immigration, training, industrial relations

Current industrial relations, training and immigration policy arrangements need reform to meet workforce needs in vocational trades, according to new research from the University of Sydney Business School.

31 August 2022

What will future cities and regions look like?

Cities and regions are at a precipice. Leading researchers, practitioners, community advocates and industry heads come together in this year's Festival of 'Future' Urbanism to debate the threats and opportunities facing our cities and regional areas through live and online events, podcasts and films.

31 August 2022

Funding injection for urban rewilding, hydrogen tech

Two University of Sydney research teams have been awarded more than $1 million to work with industry on urban rewilding and hydrogen embrittlement projects.

30 August 2022

Teenagers prove you’re never too young to have a bright idea

The University of Sydney hosted the 2022 Biotech Futures Challenge, an annual competition which sees high school students from across Australia and New Zealand engineer solutions to address current problems in healthcare and the environment.

30 August 2022

New 10-year strategy sets University's vision for 2032

The University of Sydney today released an ambitious 10-year strategy, with immediate commitments to more than double scholarship support for under-represented domestic students and invest nearly half a billion dollars in a world-leading biomedical precinct.

29 August 2022

The politics of climate change and the Danish Climate Citizens' Assembly

How can citizens effectively drive change? We hear from Visiting Doctoral Fellow Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen from the University of Copenhagen on her research into democratic theory and public engagement in Denmark.

29 August 2022

MBA Student Profile Akhilla Ashok

Akhilla Ashok shares why she chose the University of Sydney MBA, the best part of the degree so far, and how she found the transition from Mumbai to Sydney.

29 August 2022

Good jobs, flexibility, and care key to Western Sydney women

Improved wages, increased opportunities for flexible work and access to affordable care are the main things working women in Western Sydney want, a new University of Sydney report finds.

29 August 2022

Historic $478m investment to change Australian healthcare forever

The University of Sydney today announced its largest ever capital investment, a landmark $478 million to build a nation-leading biomedical precinct to fast track research and patient care in New South Wales.

29 August 2022

Supporting primary health care in remote NT communities

A new project supporting comprehensive primary health care in remote communities in the Northern Territory has just been announced as part of the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre program of works.

26 August 2022

Stories from civil society during the height of the pandemic

A new report by Sydney Policy Lab draws upon the insights and experiences of civil society leaders to understand how Australian civil society can be strengthened and re-energised.

26 August 2022

How to build and support resilient communities

A new report by Sydney Policy Lab offers crucial insights and lessons for those who work in the for-purpose sector.

26 August 2022

Is productivity really a magical fix?

With productivity set to be the dominant theme of Labor's upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, Honorary Professor of Political Economy, Jim Stanford, questions whether our "uncritical obsession" with productivity distracts us from the deeper problems Australia must solve in order to make economic and social progress.