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Single use. white slippers, hand towels and mini shampoo bottles.

Travellers could ‘opt in’ for a lower emissions hotel room and go without single-use shampoo and conditioner, daily towels or room cleaning in an innovative plan by ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵresearchers to make tourism more eco-friendly.

25 March 2025
A group of people at a political protest

Does more income equal more democracy? Not necessarily, according to an analysis of 200 years of international data.

13 March 2025
 A hand wearing a rainbow bracelet holds a mobile phone.

·èÂíÐãÊÓƵresearch has found discrimination based on sexual orientation is common in the gig economy, but only for tasks requiring close physical proximity.

11 March 2025
A satellite image of a cyclone.

·èÂíÐãÊÓƵhas a range of experts available to comment on the impact of cyclones and severe weather events such as Cyclone Alfred. 

10 March 2025
A man sitting on his couch wearing virtual reality goggles. He appears to be viewing a sports event from inside the stadium.

Internationally renowned sports marketing expert Rick Burton will make the case for Brisbane to be the technology Games, when he discusses how sport, business and government could revolutionise fan engagement over the next decade.

11 February 2025
A woman in a grey sweater looking frustratingly at her computer

Managers are often at a loss on how to increase morale and reduce burnout for their employees, but a ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵresearcher has helped develop a framework that could be the perfect tool.

28 January 2025
a spotty lizard with a wide mouth is licking its lips

The full cost of recovering all of Australia’s threatened animals and plants has been calculated for the first time.

7 January 2025
people in a line going up stairs to a plane door with the sun setting in the background

A UQ-led study shows greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy.

11 December 2024
A man in a white coat and blue gloves sits in front of a silver cannister

Forming a National Food Plan and appointing a food minister are among the key recommendations of a white paper into growing a precision fermentation industry in Australia.

18 November 2024
A large sign on a green lawn says COP20 Baku Azerbaijan with tall buildings in the background

Here's what to expect as the next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, gets underway.

11 November 2024
A mobile phone on a flat surface with its screen lit up, and a hand hovering above it.

A UQ-led study has found consumer vulnerability to cryptocurrency investment scams has little to do with socioeconomic status.

22 July 2024
An orange xray-like image of an embryo on a black background

Researchers at ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵhave for the first time captured images and video in real time of early embryonic development to understand more about congenital birth defects.

1 July 2024
A woman sits on the floor in front of a low table using a phone and laptop computer, a dog is next to her.

·èÂíÐãÊÓƵresearchers need participants for a study to help understand how people manage their work-life balance and recover from daily work stress.

17 June 2024
Cash in wallet

·èÂíÐãÊÓƵhas experts available for comment across a range of topics including housing, education, HECS indexation, tax, cost of living, energy transition, superannuation and entrenched disadvantage.

9 May 2024
A sillouette of a runner with a blue background

The 2024 SportsPro Hackathon saw some of UQ’s brightest students work towards creating an innovative solution that could drive sustainable change within the sport events industry.

13 March 2024