Business transformation

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:48 +0000

20 May 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:15:32 +0000

26 April 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa has a vision: native food telling the story of Australia's Indigenous culture at the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Environment

Impact

Leading healthy lives

Transforming societies

Ola has left Australia. What does it mean for the future of ridesharing in Australia?

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:33:24 +0000

15 April 2024Indian rideshare giant Ola announced in April that it would cease operations in Australia. What does it mean for the cost of rideshare fares?

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Social understanding

Who’s lobbying whom?

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:38:51 +0000

16 November 2023When it comes to alcohol, tobacco, food and gambling firms, our ��̽�� expert found that we're mostly being kept in the dark.

Business transformation

Social understanding

Bouncing back into your career

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 01:48:28 +0000

13 November 2023Our experts share their top tips for overcoming a professional setback or break in your career.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

After school care needs to be more than a babysitting service

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:28:29 +0000

22 September 2023New research shows how designing activities with children and their communities can help improve the quality of these services.

Business transformation

Leading healthy lives

Transforming societies

The future of telehealth

uqccla15 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 01:45:53 +0000

11 September 2023Health consumers are inviting ��̽�� researchers to their tables to work out how to improve telehealth.

Business transformation

Leading healthy lives

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

uqccla15 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:46:32 +0000

21 July 2023Australia will need to speed up and broaden its decarbonisation efforts to achieve net zero by 2050, according to the final report of the Net Zero Australia project.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

Are skyrocketing interest rates really in Australia's best interests?

uqccla15 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:49:07 +0000

19 July 2023The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept interest rates on hold this month at 4.1%. But any reprieve could be short lived.

Business transformation

Social understanding

Unpacking the 2023 federal budget

uqccla15 — Fri, 12 May 2023 04:45:26 +0000

12 May 2023Our experts explain what the federal budget means for you.

Agribusiness

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Social understanding

Interest rates could return to normal next year, but here's what you should know in the meantime

uqccla15 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:08:36 +0000

16 March 2023Research News spoke to ��̽��'s Dr Lin Mi about what she thinks will happen next, and what the latest research is telling us about property prices.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

Optus says it needed to keep identity data for 6 years. But did it really?

uqccla15 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:36:34 +0000

4 October 2022The big problem with Australia’s data retention laws is that there’s really no limit on how long a company can keep personal data, Dr Brendan Walker-Munro explains.

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Social understanding

Is 'quiet quitting' the right decision for your career?

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:09:45 +0000

29 August 2022'Quiet quitting' is the act of doing the bare minimum at work for the sake of your mental health. But how healthy is that approach, and what else can you do to find work-life balance?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

Lessons from the Robodebt debacle

uqccla15 — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:42:14 +0000

24 May 2022While there are benefits to using algorithmic decision-making, including efficiency, cost savings and operational transparency, its use can also have unintended negative consequences. This was the case with Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention program – otherwise known as Robodebt.

Business transformation

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

What impact will inflation have on you?

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 May 2022 03:25:27 +0000

5 May 2022Three ��̽�� Business and Economic experts share insights on housing, investment and wages growth, as inflation in Australia hits its highest level in more than 20 years.

Business transformation

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Why it's profitable to put your customers first over products

uqccla15 — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:49:47 +0000

14 March 2022Associate Professor Tim Kastelle says all businesses must think of themselves as delivering a service to thrive, regardless of their product offerings.

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Ticket to freedom

uqccla15 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:12:10 +0000

12 July 2021Should Australia introduce a vaccine passport?

Business transformation

Digital technology

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Transforming societies

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

uqccla15 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:06:59 +0000

2 June 2021How does Bitcoin actually work? Is it a good investment? And what on earth is Dogecoin?

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Taking rehabilitation to where it’s needed

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:54:12 +0000

26 March 2019��̽��’s telerehabilitation research has improved the lives of thousands of people around the world by allowing them to receive therapy in their own homes.

Business transformation

Impact

Public and allied health

Wild encounters

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:34:18 +0000

20 March 2019��̽�� researchers have partnered with some of the world’s most popular wildlife attractions to develop strategies and tools to enhance the experiences of more than 700 million visitors each year – while also boosting their conservation efforts.

Business transformation

Environment

Impact

Teach them well and let them lead the way

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 03:28:59 +0000

10 September 2018To celebrate Research Week 2018, ��̽�� is proud to share how ��̽�� research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Find out how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to transform society through education.

Business transformation

Impact

Social understanding

Resourceful solutions

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:10:19 +0000

5 January 2018In the first collaboration of its kind, ��̽��’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining is advising and working with some of the world’s leading mining companies to improve the lives of people affected by resettlement.

Business transformation

Impact

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Sky's the limit for voluntary carbon offsetting

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:51:06 +0000

3 January 2018��̽�� Business School researchers are partnering with a major airline to educate travellers on the benefits and positive impact of offsetting.

Business transformation

Environment

Impact

Designing transdisciplinary research for impact

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:58:52 +0000

27 March 2019For decades, we’ve known that research leading to sustainable development and impact needs to be transdisciplinary and collaborative, but doing it is quite another story.

Business transformation

Impact

Social understanding

Design Dash

uqccla15 — Sun, 09 May 2021 23:41:43 +0000

7 May 2021How big businesses are using design sprints for fast innovation.

Business transformation

How fintech can help Indonesia’s small and medium enterprises survive the COVID-19 pandemic

uqsoutra — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:24:40 +0000

5 November 2020Almost 50% (around 30 million) Indonesian SMEs have been forced to close temporarily, as demand plumetted due to the pandemic.

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Business transformation

Social understanding

Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

uqsoutra — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 02:24:12 +0000

3 September 2020Contrary to what might have been expected, working from home was one part of the pandemic response that went remarkably smoothly. Most kinds of office work continued almost as if nothing had changed.

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Social impacts

Business transformation

Social understanding

We need to plan for life after JobKeeper now. We need to make it portable.

uqsoutra — Thu, 14 May 2020 03:42:14 +0000

14 May 2020As the crisis continues, the number in these categories is going to grow, while the number of workers protected by the scheme will shrink.

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Business transformation

��̽�� scholars advise government on COVID-19 recovery

uqsoutra — Mon, 11 May 2020 07:35:46 +0000

12 May 2020��̽�� Global Change Scholars have collaborated with leading researchers from ��̽�� and other Group of Eight (Go8) universities to produce the Roadmap to Recovery report.

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Business transformation

To get out of this well we are going to have to think like central planners

uqclayt — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:29:10 +0000

24 March 2020How might a social planner respond to the COVID-19 crisis, and the lockdowns it has necessitated?

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Business transformation

Business transformation

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

Ola has left Australia. What does it mean for the future of ridesharing in Australia?

Who’s lobbying whom?

Bouncing back into your career

After school care needs to be more than a babysitting service

The future of telehealth

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

Are skyrocketing interest rates really in Australia's best interests?

Unpacking the 2023 federal budget

Interest rates could return to normal next year, but here's what you should know in the meantime

Optus says it needed to keep identity data for 6 years. But did it really?

Is 'quiet quitting' the right decision for your career?

Lessons from the Robodebt debacle

What impact will inflation have on you?

Why it's profitable to put your customers first over products

Ticket to freedom

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

Taking rehabilitation to where it’s needed

Wild encounters

Teach them well and let them lead the way

Resourceful solutions

Sky's the limit for voluntary carbon offsetting

Designing transdisciplinary research for impact

Design Dash

How fintech can help Indonesia’s small and medium enterprises survive the COVID-19 pandemic

Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

We need to plan for life after JobKeeper now. We need to make it portable.

����̽�� scholars advise government on COVID-19 recovery

To get out of this well we are going to have to think like central planners

��̽�� scholars advise government on COVID-19 recovery