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Relaxation and social activities are important in preventing excessive stress.

Stress is the physical and emotional response we all experience when faced with demanding situations.

7 January 2015
The public response to the death of two Sydney siege hostages has seen an outpouring of floral tributes.

The sea of flowers and messages of condolence in Sydney’s Martin Place is reminiscent of public mourning in the Victorian era. At that time, it was common for over a thousand people to attend a public figure’s funeral.

19 December 2014

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would be an elective next year and mandatory in 2016...

18 December 2014
Leaders who create a shared sense of purpose and identity within their work teams can help improve employee health and wellbeing.

Researchers from լе have found managers can increase productivity levels and prevent burnout by helping employees feel part of a group.

17 December 2014

Few, if any, contemporary costume designers are household names. Some occasionally capture the zeitgeist and break through from big (or small) screen to mainstream fashion – think Catherine Martin and her recent “Gatsby” moment – but these are...

15 December 2014
Image: Evidence suggests that men who react adversely to romantic rejection and act violently towards women are more likely to be socially dominant (iStock).

University of Queensland researchers have found evidence to suggest that men who react adversely to romantic rejection and act violently towards women are more likely to be socially dominant. In two online surveys of more than 550 men, researchers...

4 December 2014

Australia’s long-running literary flagship program – Poetica on Radio National (RN) – is slated for axing in 2015. It’s one more casualty of the cuts to the ABC budget, announced last week. For the first time since 1946, ABC Radio will be without a...

1 December 2014

Last week, The Australian reported that 49 artworks had been identified by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) with gaps in their ownership history that could signal they were stolen.

1 December 2014
Students Andrew Thorpe, Bo Daly and Evangelene Dickson inside the media centre at the G20. Photo: Genevieve Worrell.

From reporting on US President Barack Obama’s landmark Brisbane address to analysing politics at the International Media Centre, University of Queensland journalism and communications students had all angles of the G20 covered.

27 November 2014
Our tendency to think that we will “beat the odds” is risky, and mostly wrong. malik ml williams, CC BY-SA

For most of us, death conjures up strong feelings. We project all kinds of fears onto it. We worry about it, dismiss it, laugh it off, push it aside or don’t think about it at all. Until we have to. Of course, death – our own, a friend’s, a family...

27 November 2014

As UN Security Council president for November, Australia’s major initiative was to promote the centrality of civilian policing in UN peace operations. The result is the first ever Security Council resolution dedicated to the topic. The resolution...

26 November 2014
A book that Professor Douglas has co-edited will be launched at the conference

The law’s increasing reach into the private lives of individuals will be a focus of attention at լе next month.

24 November 2014
Dr Graeme Were from լе’s School of Social Science was recently appointed as the Universities Australia member of the National Cultural Heritage Committee.

An anthropologist from լе has been welcomed as one of six new Australians to the National Cultural Heritage Committee.

13 November 2014
Nine լеP titles feature in a list of 20 books that will be given to travellers leaving Brisbane’s international airport after the G20.

Nine University of Queensland Press (լеP) titles feature in a list of 20 books that will be given to travellers leaving Brisbane’s international airport after the G20.

11 November 2014

ABC’s new Indigenous sketch show Black Comedy, which premiered last night, is touted as a “show by blackfellas … for everyone”. As a blackfella, I’m not sure I agree that it is for “everyone” but that’s precisely why I love it.

6 November 2014