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Researchers help emergency services retain volunteers

Researchers from UOW are investigating how to help emergency services recruit and retain their critical volunteer workforce. The researchers have developed a new method of leadership that aims to help volunteers continue performing life-saving work in times of national crisis and ensure they stay with the emergency services agency. 

Caribbean fisheries officers get up stand up for maritime protection

Maritime experts are helping small Caribbean nations manage and protect fisheries from a range of illegal and unsustainable fishing practices and environmental threats that are putting the food security and income of thousands of people at risk.

Well-connected Indigenous kids keen to tap new ways to save lives

Young Indigenous Australians are enthusiastic users of social media, spending about 20% more time on social media than other Australians their age

Physiologists find muscles may contain temperature sensors

Muscles could play an important role in the regulation of sweating and therefore body temperature, according to recent research from UOW.  

Engineering students build knowledge and careers layer-by-layer

A new subject introducing engineering students to 3D printing promises to be a catalyst for a booming field of study over the coming years.

Explainer: why the James Hardie asbestos victim compensation fund is running out of money

By Lee Moerman, University of Wollongong and Sandra van der Laan, University of Sydney