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UNSW Art Design & Architecture

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Gamifying safety helps teens prevent farm injury

27 Nov 2023

The ‘Calm Your Farm’ game, created through a UNSW Sydney-led research collaboration, increases knowledge and awareness about farm safety.

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Slower ageing, but slower economic growth: the Intergenerational Report in 7 charts

25 Aug 2023

The latest Intergenerational Report shows Australia less old than it was going to be, but poorer. And eventually needing to pay more tax.

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Eight UNSW researchers named ARC Future Fellows

31 Jul 2023

The newest future fellows have been awarded more than $7 million for projects in engineering, science, medicine, business, and the humanities.   

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Poetry goes nuclear: 3 recent books delve into present anxieties, finding beauty amid the terror

30 Jun 2023

In speaking to the moment, poets are bringing the apocalypse to Australian literature.

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'The problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

23 Jun 2023

‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.

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Cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our ‘art monsters’

12 May 2023

So many of our artistic geniuses have complicated legacies. What do we do with work we love by artists whose behaviour is more difficult to admire?

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Down with work - how reducing hours in the workplace could help avert a climate catastrophe

02 Mar 2023

Working and producing less to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint is part of a growing movement towards a ‘degrowth’ economy.

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UNSW receives more than $17m for 41 ARC Discovery Projects

25 Nov 2022

The new round of grants will support research in science, engineering, medicine, business, arts, and built environment.

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Most older Australians aren’t in aged care. Policy blind spots mean they live in communities that aren’t age-friendly

31 Oct 2022

A study of 85 policies at all levels of government shows the focus in Australia is on residential care homes. Most older people are not in care, but their need for age-friendly cities is overlooked

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Life, death, intimacy and privilege: 4 works of COVID fiction – and what they say about us

12 Sep 2022

Four different authors – Sarah Moss, Roddy Doyle, Anne Tyler and Gary Shteyngart – tell four different stories of life in a time of COVID.

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