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What is toxic positivity?
The release of a tell-all Trump biography has launched a new term on the world: toxic positivity, where to recognise negative emotions is to fail. Professor Jennie Hudson, from Macquarie's Department of Psychology, explains its damaging effects.
Universities find new purpose amid disruption of COVID-19
While the coronavirus has caused untold upheaval across campuses, resilient universities are seeing it as an opportunity, writes Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal of the Macquarie Business School.
Study highlights Anglo-Celtic dominance of our TV news
A lack of cultural diversity on our free-to-air television news and current affairs has been revealed in a ground-breaking research project led by Macquarie University Professor of Media Catharine Lumby.
The new taboos: how COVID-19 is changing our social world
During the COVID-19 crisis, many taboos are being challenged – but new ones are also taking shape, says Dr Sabine Krajewski, Senior Lecturer in International Communication at Macquarie University.
Uni teams up with council to launch anti-racism campaign
In response to new research results, a campaign aimed at stamping out incidents of casual and verbal racism will launch in Sydney's municipality of Ryde, where international students make up more than 10 per cent of the population.
Why the timing could not be worse as newspapers close across Australia
Communities around the nation enter a new era without a local newspaper at a time when the bush faces issues that affect us all, says Macquarie University Senior Lecturer in Media Dr Willa McDonald.
Has cancel culture gone too far?
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s violent death, Macquarie University’s Dr Anthony Lambert explores whether the cultural reckoning can actually help uproot systemic racism.
Big brands take a stand and support #BLM
The corporate world has been quick to offer its support to the Black Lives Matter movement as tensions continue in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, but it should go further than changing a hash tag.
Please explain: What's behind the brawl over our borders?
As Australia's premiers skirmish over the reopening of state borders, Dr Andrew Burridge, a Lecturer in Macquarie University's Department of Geography and Planning, explains why we have these borders in the first place – and why they make us fight.
The radical 1970s and the Royal Commission Australia forgot
The personal became the political in the 1970s and Australia was transformed, writes Macquarie University Professor Michelle Arrow, whose book about the decade has won the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History.
The power of learning IRL: how hand gestures help kids – and adults – understand
Online education has done its job during the COVID-19 crisis, but Macquarie University research reveals how it can never match real-life learning.
Why research ethics should be taught as part of the HSC
Many senior secondary students now conduct original research as part of their curriculum – and Dr Natasha Todorov says they need formal research ethics training to make sure no harm is done to their human subjects.