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Following efforts by UQ Law researchers, The Conversation has made changes to ensure authors who are contributing Indigenous knowledge are acknowledged. 

ARTICLE | Emerging research from Dr Terry Fitzsimmons suggests that a person’s gender might be a significant factor that influences how greatly someone is impacted by this virus.

ARTICLE | Under Queensland's revised biodsicovery law, anyone engaging in biodiscovery must take all reasonable measures to form agreement with the custodians of Indigenous knowledge being used. This includes a benefit-sharing agreement.

How far should governments go in restricting people's freedoms in the name of public health?

ARTICLE | The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the sudden shift of around half the workforce to working at home. This unplanned experiment suggests we might have stumbled upon a massive opportunity for a microeconomic reform.

REPORT | The COVID-19 crisis has revealed pre-existing issues in the aged care sector and shows the need for person-centred support.

ARTICLE | Despite being concerned about privacy, we are willing to sacrifice some of it in exchange for the convenience afforded by an internet-connected device.

ARTICLE | Two researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) have contributed to a world-first study that has quantified the global socio-economic and environmental impacts of COVID-19.

RESOURCE | Legal professionals, journalists and researchers now have access to a new-and-improved version of the Deaths in Custody Project – the first comprehensive national database of its kind.

Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year.

In less than three months, the expanded JobSeeker payment is due to end. There is a growing political debate about what should happen to the unemployment payment that was roughly doubled.

Some claim the pandemic sounds the death knell for globalisation – but in fact, it reveals the disasters that can arise when nations try to go it alone.

The University of Queensland Business School is working with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to address the growing challenges created by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | In this study of primary dental care, Professor Stephen Birch and colleagues explore the link between quality and quantity of care with dentists' remuneration.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | Blockchain enables lower transaction costs and cross-border transactions at unprecedented speed for international business. 

Why storytelling is the future of professional sport.

It’s not every week a researcher finds the actual answer to her academic challenge is to offer free drinks all round – then wins a global prize for the discovery.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | Adapting to climate change must be considered the salient business issue of this decade for emission intensive organisations.

ARTICLE | World leading health economist Professor Stephen Birch examines how Australia could better plan for future pandemics.

UQ alumnus Tara O'Kane is supposed to be starting her new career in London. She's using this time to help others by co-founding a grocery-delivery service.