Subscribe on your favourite platform In this launch episode of the Seriously Social podcast, historian Frank Bongiorno shares what history can teach us about living through the current COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Podcasts
S3E1 – Visual politics: Professor Roland Bleiker on how images stick with us
Subscribe on your favourite platform How can the speed and frequency of images rightly or wrongly impact our views of current issues? Join Professor Roland Bleiker, from the School of [...]
S2E1 – Mental wealth: How we fix the national crisis.
Subscribe on your favourite platform How do you build the mental wealth of a nation? Mental ill health is costing us about 4% of GDP, a figure that one of [...]
S2E10 – Ross Gittins on why this recession is different.
Subscribe on your favourite platform Ross Gittins, Economics Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald, has seen both sides of three recessions. This one is the fourth he’s worked through. So [...]
Symbolism and sentiment: Professor Megan Davis on the representation of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.
Subscribe on your favourite platform Ginger Gorman: Right now, in the wake of the terrible summer fires, the ongoing fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global resurgence of the [...]
S2E7 – Stigma and Suicide: Jane Pirkis on the mental health of men.
Subscribe on your favourite platform Male socialisation and ideals of masculinity already have a devastating effect on the health and well-being of men across the globe. With the added pressures [...]
S2E8 – Working from home: blessing or curse? Professor Sharon Parker has the answers (and yes, there’s more than one).
Subscribe on your favourite platform Pyjamas, commuting from bed to your desk just minutes after waking up, no boss looking over your shoulder–working from home sounds like a dream. But [...]
S2E6 – Educating for an uncertain future: Peter Shergold on Australia’s education sector.
Subscribe on your favourite platform Australian higher education institutions are caught up in the fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But closing borders to international students has had an unintended [...]
S2E2 (Part 2)- Mental wealth: How we fix the national crisis.
Subscribe on your favourite platform Pre-pandemic Australia was seen as an epicentre of hope – that despite high rates of loneliness and suicidality, we were getting buy-in on the important [...]
S2E5: Wicked Problems: Fiona Stanley on how to create a society we actually want
Subscribe on your favourite platform When is a health crisis not just a health crisis? When it’s a global pandemic and it shows up the weak points that already existed [...]

