The release of the 2011 film Contagion starting Kate Winslet introduced the world to contact tracers: highly skilled individuals who use a range of methods to ‘trace’ infections humans and those with whom they have come in contact. As COVID-19 ...

A lot of words have come into Australian English from Aboriginal languages. Think of billabong, corroboree, kookaburra, mia-mia, and of course kangaroo – which was famously misinterpreted by Captain Cook and his crew. It’s true of most of these words ...

Words which can only be defined in negative terms are not the most constructive in our vocabulary. Wuss is one such, usually defined as “a weak or ineffectual person”, i.e. not strong, lacking courage, indecisive, not on top of things, ...

You may have been a little confused when bombarded with advertising for ‘Black Friday’ sales in the lead-up to Christmas last year. In the US, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving (always the fourth Thursday in November) when shops ...

Australian employers continue to be pleased with the quality of our university graduates, with 84 per cent of direct supervisors surveyed satisfied with graduate employees. Published by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), the 2019 Employer Satisfaction Survey also ...

The casualisation of academic staff is nothing new in Australia – Campus Review has covered the topic many times and yet the problem seems to only get worse. (Kate Prendergast's story A vision for radical university change illustrates the extent of ...

The latest SEEK employment report shows job advertisements for education and training had the third highest growth (3 per cent) in the year to November 2019, despite a significant drop in job ads nationally. Community services and development led the ...

This late 20th century invention finds a word for the diet-conscious individual who likes to vary their food, rather than align with prescriptive practices on the dietary spectrum. Flexitarianism gains traction with people not fully in sync with either of ...

With wage stagnation and frequent reports of underemployment and underpayment rife, the SEEK 2020 Trends report is a valuable guide for people in making sensible, evidence-based decisions on the career/s they wish to enter. These employment trends are critical in ...

Katie Rose Guest Pryal is very different from me. Firstly, she’s a woman with a prolific career in a range of industries. Second, she’s an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, so she’s ...