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Managers need menopause training to protect profits and retain women in senior jobs
Women leaving work prematurely due to the effects of menopause costs Australian companies more than $10 billion a year. Macquarie Business School researchers say workplace training for managers is urgently needed to support women’s wellbeing and protect the business bottom line.
How face-to-face contact could save the world: new book
Our instinct to form groups is hardwired into our brains, and vital to the way humanity evolved. According to a new book, if we listen to those instincts to connect, they could just help us save the planet.
Please explain: Why do magpies swoop?
Behavioural ecologist Dr Ben Ashton, who is researching magpie cognition and behaviour, explains.
Hospital emergency departments as noisy as construction sites
A new study of hospital noise has found that emergency departments can be as loud as a construction site, potentially affecting both patients and medical teams.
New Dracula movie sinks its teeth into vampire legend: review
Gothic literature scholar Dr Kirstin Mills reviews the latest adaptation of Bram Stoker's horror story, Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter.
More solar panels needed on rented rooftops
With soaring rent stress rife in Australian capital cities, new research has found many tenants are also missing out on energy savings due to lack of access to solar panels.
Protecting parks, pools and playgrounds: new post-lockdown think tank launched
How do we ensure public spaces are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable? An exciting new collaboration between Macquarie University and the NSW government is addressing how our public spaces are planned, created, cared for and shared.
How COVID changed journalism
Ahead of this week’s launch of Pandemedia, a book of essays by leading Australian newsmakers, Macquarie University Professor of Journalism Peter Greste explores the changing dynamic between the media and the public.
A portrait of crime in 1950s Sydney suburbia: new book
A forensic dive into police photo archives by crime aficionado Peter Doyle, Macquarie University Honorary Associate Professor of Media, exposes the double life of Sydney suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.
Protection or intrusion? The wrinkles in facial recognition technology
Facial recognition technology was hailed as the last word in digital security. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Macquarie University law lecturer Dr Rita Matulionyte reviews its risks and rewards.
Should startups tweet like Elon to get attention?
Researchers examine whether provocative social media posts are an effective way for new businesses to engage audiences online.
Undiscovered diamonds could be revealed by new study findings
Deep secrets of how tectonic plate movement produces diamond-rich rock have been uncovered by Macquarie geologists who tracked a billion years worth of data.