Stay-at-home restrictions implemented around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been associated with an average 37 per cent reduction in crime across the globe
South East Queensland’s eucalypt trees can provide everything from medicines to tools, traps and building materials, according to rediscovered records of regional Indigenous knowledge.
Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences director, Kevin Thomas, speaks to Research News about the environmental stressors that are affecting our existence.
UQ researchers are working with students to help them learn how to think critically – a program that is improving their school results and inspiring them to become lifelong learners in the process.
UQ researchers working in criminal justice and domestic violence have influenced key legal reforms designed to better protect Australian women from domestic violence.
By connecting teachers, students and the wider community with William Shakespeare’s works, UQ researchers are ensuring his important lessons continue to have an extraordinary impact on future generations.
A 40-year UQ study that has followed people with Down syndrome from infancy to adulthood has helped change perceptions and led to the development of programs that are improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities around the world.
UQ researchers are helping teachers make mathematics more engaging and accessible for students, showing how it can be a productive and rewarding tool for life.