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Psychiatrist and clinical researcher Prof David Castle discusses how cannabis represents both a public health risk and a wide-ranging therap...

In this rebroadcast episode, sociologist Prof Chris Greer explores the often murky agendas of organisations, mainstream and social media, an...

In this rebroadcast episode, civil and environmental engineer Prof Anne Steinemann outlines the causes and consequences of poor indoor air q...

In this rebroadcast episode, research psychiatrist Prof Allan Young discusses bipolar disorder, and examines leading edge research into find...

International Court of Justice jurist James Crawford on the diminishing appetite of nation states to join new international agreements or re...

Urban thinker Julie Wagner describes how so-called innovation districts in cities around the world evolve or are planned, and how their reli...

How does a cancer patient's experience of illness help to inform their treatment? Clinical and research oncologist Associate Professor Lidia...

Criminologist Ben Bowling on how policing is increasingly crossing national borders, chasing globalized crime and cyber offenses, and raisin...

Infectious diseases expert and epidemiologist Dr Ben Cowie explains why viral hepatitis is fast becoming a hidden epidemic with significant...

Research psychologist Brock Bastian argues that a willingness to experience pain is crucial to our pursuit of genuine happiness, and that ou...

Political scientist and author John Keane on the recent proliferation of corrupt political regimes that employ democratic rhetoric, staged e...

Social epidemiologist Prof. Eric Emerson argues that "disability" and "being disabled" really refer to the effects of social and economic ma...

Reproductive biologist Professor David Gardner explains what we're still learning about healthy embryo development, how it's being applied t...

Ecologist Prof. Peter Vitousek explores how living in the Anthropocene, a time in which human activity has become the key driver of planetar...

Environmental law researcher Erin O'Donnell and economist Julia Talbot-Jones explain what's behind recent moves to give legal personhood to...

Economist Dr Lauren Johnston examines the evolving political and economic relationships between China and Africa, and how the East Asia gian...

Population health researcher Professor Cassandra Szoeke outlines what ails women as they grow older, how men differ from women in age-relate...

Geriatrician Professor Andrea Maier describes what happens to our cells as we age, and explains the causes of age-related diseases. She also...

Sustainable agriculture expert Prof Tim Reeves discusses the profound changes required in agricultural practice, public policy and consumer...

Governance expert Prof Minxin Pei describes how collusion between China’s political and business elites have resulted in the privatization o...

Psychiatric epidemiologist Professor Michael King discusses the devastating psychological harm suffered by victims of homophobia and transph...

Molecular biologist Prof Jacob Corn describes how gene editing is carried out with CRISPR-Cas9. He explains why this technology has the pote...

Are refugees fleeing persecution today generally seen as people who need help, or problems to be pushed away? Migration and refugee research...

Research psychologist Associate Professor Lindsay Oades explains how positive psychology and wellbeing literacy, once largely focused on the...

Environmental physicist Prof Mark Sutton explains how our fast growing "nitrogen footprint" from agriculture and industry is reaching crisis...

Virologist Eddie Holmes explains how viral and bacterial pandemics of the type that spawned the Black Death and Ebola remain an unpredictabl...

In our annual PhD episode, we chat with two young researchers on their diverse investigations. We hear from bioscientist Anne Aulsebrook, wh...

Criminologist Penny Green explains how states, entrusted to define crimes and enforce the laws that deter them, can themselves be complicit...

Virologist and infectious diseases expert Prof John Fazakerley details the myriad threats to the global food supply from pathogen infestatio...

Urban public health researcher Prof Mark Stevenson describes the better human health outcomes to be had in cities that emphasize active tran...

Stroke rehabilitation researcher Prof. Julie Bernhardt discusses the state of the science in stroke recovery. Taking an interdisciplinary ap...

As populations in the developed economies continue to age due to longer life expectancies and lower birth rates, what will be the impact on...

In a world with a bewildering mix of fact and fiction, and in which social and mainstream media only add to the confusion, how do we separat...

Philosopher and social theorist Prof Sally Haslanger outlines the persistence of ideologies like racism or sexism that entrench injustice or...

International law expert Prof Naz Modirzadeh and political scientist Assoc Prof Andrew March explore how the United States and other governm...

Earthquake researcher Assoc Prof Mark Quigley explains the lessons learned from recent major earthquakes into how to better prepare regions...

Philosopher of the emotions Prof Louis Charland argues that we need to reinstate the notion of "passion" in our understanding of human behav...

Public health researcher Prof Tony Jorm asks why prevalence of anxiety and depression in North America, Australia and elsewhere has not decr...

Is extreme poverty merely evidence of failed economic policy or should it also be seen as a breach of human rights? Legal scholar and UN Spe...

Renowned paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood explains how continuing research into fossil and other evidence of our evolutionary history produc...

Social science and legal scholar Prof Sheila Jasanoff discusses how science and the law interact or compete with one another in the formulat...

Evolutionary biologist and historian of science Prof Lee Dugatkin joins Dr Andi Horvath to discuss displays of altruism in insects, animals...

Decision science researcher Prof Peter Bossaerts argues that investigating brain activity as we make decisions is generating new insights in...

Psychiatrist Joeri Tijdink discusses his research into how increasing pressures on science and medical researchers to win funding, achieve p...

Management researcher Prof Robert C. Liden explains the organizational leadership approach of Servant Leadership, in which managers commit t...

Transition management thinker Prof Jan Rotmans argues that there must be a radical shakeup of existing institutions and governing structures...

Environmental legal scholar Prof. Robin Craig argues that the doctrine of sustainability in managing our natural resources fails to take int...

Informatics researcher Professor Paul Dourish explains how algorithms, as more than mere technical objects, guide our social lives and organ...

Oxford sociologist and political economist Prof. David Stuckler argues that austerity policies imposed by national governments in response t...

Dr Miya Tokumitsu argues that young people "following their passion" into jobs and internships, in the creative industries and elsewhere, ar...
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