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13 Sep 2023
An app that unlocks the therapeutic potential of music for people living with dementia across Australia will receive $2 million ($1.3m USD) in grant funding and support from Google’s philanthropic arm, to develop wearable sensors and AI-enabled music adaptive systems and undertake a pilot in Australia.
15 Jun 2023
Together with First Nations artists, researchers from the University of Melbourne and Deakin University have produced a new and innovative album of songs in Gunditjmara language, empowering communities to reclaim and celebrate culture.
5 Jun 2023
For the first time, an Indigenous-led group will represent Australia at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial, the world’s largest festival of scenography, performance and theatre design.
30 May 2023
The University of Melbourne’s Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development is hosting the first Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia (IMW) to be held in the South-East of Australia as part of its Reconciliation Week activities.
18 May 2023
Showcasing work by Meriam artist Gail Mabo and women artists from Peppinmenarti in the Northern Territory, two new exhibitions are opening at the University of Melbourne’s Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery.
20 Mar 2023
Australian workers are exhausted, unwell, at risk of quitting, and largely unprepared for future workplace challenges driven by automation and artificial intelligence, a new report from the University of Melbourne Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative reveals.
16 Feb 2023
Disabled people working in Australia’s screen industry face prejudice and systemic discrimination, including lower pay, greater casualisation and stigma and stereotyping, a new report finds.
27 Oct 2022
Expert conservators from the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Conservation Services are offering their expertise to help people recover and restore their most precious items following devastating floods across parts of Australia.
27 Sep 2022
Young children in remote north-east Arnhem Land are using a new Indigenous language app to learn early literacy skills in their first language, with the app being presented today at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.
18 Aug 2022
Residents of a public housing estate in Melbourne are missing out on education and employment opportunities, and health and income support because of barriers to the access and use of reliable and affordable internet, a new University of Melbourne report has found.
11 Aug 2022
A new exclusive partnership with the Australian World Orchestra (AWO) will enable University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students to have unparalleled access to a network of the finest Australian musicians, working in leading orchestras and ensembles around the world and here at home.
5 May 2022
People who migrated to regional Australia during COVID were more likely to retain their metro-based employment rather than working in their new regional hometown – and they’re keen to keep it that way, a new report has found.
1 Dec 2021
Younger people’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was shaped by their savvy use of social media platforms, navigating mis- and dis-information, subjective content loops, big-tech algorithms and emerging “splinter platforms,” a new University of Melbourne report has found.
30 Aug 2021
Lisa Singh has been appointed as the new Director of the Australia India Institute (AII), the University’s centre dedicated to promoting support for and understanding of the Australia-India relationship.
23 Aug 2021
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and University of Queensland have analysed negative attitudes towards Asian people in both the United States and Australia to better understand the factors that contribute to these prejudices.
31 Mar 2021
New research reveals while mainstream media remains the main go-to news source for Gen Z and Millennials, young people worldwide are relying on multiple platforms, such as social media, for information on the coronavirus (COVD-19) pandemic.
4 Mar 2021
Port Fairy residents will be able to get expert advice on how to care for their precious items and memorabilia at a Collection Care Workshop supported by the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.
26 Feb 2021
Support among Australians for the policy response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and willingness to get vaccinated is high, according to new University of Melbourne research.
21 Dec 2020
The University of Melbourne is once again supporting the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Triennial exhibition as research partner.
16 Dec 2020
Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence the colony has inflicted on Indigenous women, and offers a roadmap for healing in the centuries ahead.