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20 Jan 2020

Donor-conceived people lobby UN for access to their genetic heritage

A group of donor-conceived and surrogate-born people have spoken out at the UN in a renewed push to improve the rights of access to biological information.

Arts & Social Sciences

Centre for Social Research in Health
16 Jan 2020

#Class of 2019: Ayushi Shah

The outgoing international student has three words to describe life at UNSW...

School of Social Sciences

Arts and Social Sciences

Business

School of Social Sciences

Arts & Social Sciences
15 Jan 2020

How to change society for the better through music

A UNSW School of Arts and Media PhD candidate is combining his interest in improvised music and audience participation in the hope of creating positive social change.
14 Jan 2020

Pain relief and euthanasia – the fine line between life and death

UNSW Philosophy/Medicine alumnus Dr Thomas Riisfeldt resurrects the end-of-life debate with his controversial stance on the ethics of euthanasia.
08 Jan 2020

Dr Google and the Internet of Things (IoT)

UNSW Professor Deborah Lupton explores the unintended consequences of modern technology through the lens of a social researcher.

Arts & Social Sciences

Centre for Social Research in Health

Social Policy Research Centre
07 Jan 2020

The importance of safe and brave spaces for LGBTIQ+ young people and allies

UNSW Associate Professor Christy Newman and Scientia PhD Candidate Sujith Kumar from the Centre for Social Research in Health discuss the importance of safe and brave spaces for LGBTIQ+ young people and allies.

Centre for Social Research in Health

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Events

Wed 20 May, 2020
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International Communications Association (ICA) 2020 Pre-Conference

ICA 2020 pre-conference focuses on emerging media and social change in the Asia Pacific.

School of the Arts & Media
5 - 6 Feb 2020
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8:30am

Mini-COGE Course 5 - 6 February

February 5 - 6
8:30 AM

GERRIC at UNSW's School of Education is a leading centre for professional educators looking to help gifted students flourish.

Short Course

School of Education
Thursday 6 February 2020
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9.15am - 3.30pm (Registration from 8.30am)

UNSW Multimodality Studies Symposium 3

Multimodal Agendas in the Asia-Pacific: semiotic resources, theories, and uses.

Multimodality is a major field of communication studies with various concentrations of scholars around the world.

School of the Arts & Media
17 February 2020
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5.00pm - 6.00pm

SEX (AND DRUGS) LECTURE

Dr Max Hopwood and Dr Kerryn Drysdale will present the fourth annual Sex Lecture, drawing on insights from the Crystal, Pleasures and Sex between Men research project.

Centre for Social Research in Health
26 February 2020
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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Alternative Pornographies, Regulatory Fantasies, Resistance Politics

Zahra Stardust presents on a study that investigated the aspirations and limitations of alternative pornographies in the current regulatory framework and explored whether they could inform a better approach.

Centre for Social Research in Health
26/02/2020 - 26/02/2020
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6:30pm - 7:30pm

Chernobyl and the Fall of the Soviet Union: Serhii Plokhy

Was the biggest peacetime nuclear disaster and demise of the Soviet Union inevitable? On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded.

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Multimodal Agendas in the Asia-Pacific: semiotic resources, theories, and uses.