‘Put down the paperwork’. It’s an unlikely message from an ethics professor, but Mike Burgess, Chair in Biomedical Ethics at the University of British Columbia in Canada, says that what’s good on paper isn’t always in practice. In Perth to ...

When it comes to your health, sitting ≠ smoking. That’s the crux of a new piece in the American Journal of Public Health, which seeks to correct the media (and science)-driven myth. An international team of researchers, including the University of ...

Do you remember the American corn seed heist of 2013? More kernel than caper, Mo Hailong and six other Chinese nationals were accused of digging up patented GMO corn seeds from Iowa farms and, once concealed in boxes of microwaveable popcorn, attempting to smuggle them to ...

Grants are currently the buzziest topic in Australian higher education. They are also being discussed around UK academics’ proverbial water coolers, thanks to a new Cancer Research UK (CRUK) policy. The policy, drafted by one of the world’s biggest funders of cancer ...

At least 11 auto manufacturers, including Toyota, Audi and Tesla, are putting driverless car plans in motion. With soon-to-be robot drivers comes the need to program ethics in them. Think, a situation like the trolley dilemma, where a driver must choose ...

It began – as the cliché goes – with a list on a napkin. Associate Professor Inger Mewburn, director of research training at ANU and founder of blog The Thesis Whisperer, was lunching with a colleague when the discussion turned to ...

The Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) has been recognised for its industry-leading commitment to innovation—twice. UAC was ranked 41st on the 2018 Most Innovative Companies list from over 1,000 nominated organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The prestigious annual list, published ...

Though all cultures perceive contract cheating as wrong, nearly half of ESL students see plagiarism – a subtler form of cheating – as less problematic. They think universities make ‘too much of a fuss of people cheating’ in this manner. A fifth of ...

Dr Alice Fabbri has never accepted industry money for research, nor have any of her colleagues at the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative within USYD’s Charles Perkins Centre. The postdoctoral research fellow is therefore well-placed to illuminate ‘truth decay’ – a phenomenon that can arise ...

When principal of Templestowe College, Peter Hutton, was at school, like many of us, he was told that one day, the esoteric-seeming knowledge he gained would be useful. “That hasn’t happened yet,” Hutton quipped at a recent event. Perhaps this would have been ...