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Monday 29 May 2023

UOW aims to educate and celebrate during National Reconciliation Week

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Monday 29 May 2023

Distinguished Professor Gordon Wallace elected to Royal Irish Academy

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Stories

Fixing broken flood gauges is important. But most of us don’t evacuate even when we know the water is coming

Safety means focusing on community resilience as well as warnings

Wanted: family-friendly apartments. But what do families want from apartments?

Despite a surge in development, most apartments are one or two bedrooms and not family-friendly

Bridging science and public policy

How Professor Bruce Thom committed his life to the transfer of scientific knowledge into policy development

UOW early career researchers awarded $1.3 million in funding

Dr Elyse Stanes, Dr Anna Farmery and Dr Yannan Li to advance their research over next three years

Backcountry visitors are leaving poo piles in the Australian Alps – and it’s a problem

When you think of backcountry snow adventures, you think of pristine wilderness. But there’s a problem: what to do with your poo.

Pedalling for change

For bikes to get more gravity in the Australian transport network, we need to reposition the car as a well-behaved co-host of the road rather than its rightful owner


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Tony Okely

Expertise: Children and physical activity, sedentary behaviour, motor skills

Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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