“How would you have gone if you had taken your mum to uni, Conor?” recent nursing graduate and mother Lorella McLatchey asks me. As I ponder this, I imagine sitting at the uni bar while my mother stares at me disapprovingly, ...

Who Put the Post in Postcolonial?" A 1998 review bearing this title was published in the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Its author, Chadwick Allen, an American English professor, begins by interrogating the various scholarly iterations of the term 'postcolonial'. There's ...

A new facility unveiled in the heart of Sydney this week will focus on improving the higher education experience of international students. Co-created by the Australian Technical and Management College (ATMC) and the University of the Sunshine Coast, the "managed ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast will host a Close the Gap event today (Thursday), as a call for action to address disadvantage among Indigenous Australians. Launched in 2008, Close the Gap day is a national campaign to boost the ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast and Queensland University of Technology scientists have found what they call a "surprising link" between Google searches about melanoma and the number of confirmed cases. The team of researchers collaborated with the Cancer Council ...

A collaboration between the University of the Sunshine Coast and a local artist has resulted in a mobile app that could change the art gallery scene. Information and communication technology lecturer Dr Mark Utting worked with student Michael Lin Liu ...

Genetics research led by the University of the Sunshine Coast may have found the origins of sarcoptic mange, a disease that threatens Australia's wombat and koala populations. PhD student Tamieka Fraser, who is also enrolled at the University of Tasmania, ...

Despite rural, regional and remote universities being 'anchor institutions' – the economic and intellectual hearts of their respective towns – they're not recognised as such by the federal government. That's the key message of the Regional Universities Network (RUN)'s new National Regional ...

The future of Australia's airports could be in the hands of researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast, after it was selected to advance airport pavement technologies across the country. USC researcher and airport pavement engineer Dr Greg White ...

Video games, smart phones and wearable technology could be key tools to assist recovery from stroke and sports injuries, according to researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). Information on the topic was delivered in a number of ...