Academic profiles

13 March, 2025 | Education, Real Focus feature stories

How school trauma has created an explosion in homeschooling

25 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

Political inaction and big-tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election.

24 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

19 February, 2025 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

Movie depictions of stillsuits, out-of-control Teslas and drone fleet illusions provoke our imaginations and drive discussion and debate.

10 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

The internet has enhanced children’s lives in many ways but it was not designed with children in mind.

20 January, 2025 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

Well, perhaps “king” of the MAGA movement… But President-Elect Donald Trump’s political comeback is a remarkable feat, and it has serious implications for Australia.

7 January, 2025 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Professor Anne Chang AM has led the way in setting the international standard for the treatment of chronic cough in children.

18 December, 2024 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

17 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Ever fancier and elaborate, creative Christmas ads are eagerly anticipated and have become a genre in their own right. And Santa is no longer the star attraction.

16 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Why retail, fast food and distribution workers are in the firing line and what can be done to stop it.

3 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

From intelligent homes to robotaxis - AI isn't just the future, it's already here ... and getting smarter by the day.

19 November, 2024 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

Cleaner, greener water treatment technologies are transforming wastewater into valuable resources, with huge environmental and economic benefits.

1 November, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Internationally renowned microbial ecologist Professor Gene Tyson reveals how our gut microbiome will impact future medical treatment and why he doesn't take probiotics.

28 October, 2024 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

Nursing homes don’t have to be dull, uninviting spaces. There’s a new wave of designers transforming aged care and health with better buildings, community interaction, technology and the creative arts.

14 October, 2024 | Education, Real Focus feature stories

Professor Grace Sarra has spent more than 30 years making a difference in Indigenous and low socio-economic education.

30 September, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Modern work is an evolving ecosystem, with robotics, generative AI, the gig economy and the rise of digital platforms impacting careers and workplaces.

2 September, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths is a 'DNA detective', tracking down genetic links to human ailments to lead to personalised treatment. She also uses next-generation genome sequencing to identify the remains of missing Australian soldiers.

15 August, 2024 | Science, Real Focus feature stories

They live in a secret underground world, hidden down the cracks of the hardened clay soil of outback Queensland – small as a mouse, cute as a bilby and sometimes as ferocious as a tiger.

10 July, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Associate Professor Zephanie Tyack, internationally recognised for pioneering burns treatment for children, has built her healthcare career by following one simple maxim: make things better for people.

27 June, 2024 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

From high school experiments to cutting-edge technology, Dr Tobias Fischer has travelled the globe in his quest to change the future face of robotics.

12 June, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

QUT researcher Professor Narelle Haworth isn’t just studying road safety, she’s living it with her daily bicycle commute into the office.

23 May, 2024 | Engineering, Health, Real Focus feature stories

Associate Professor Paige Little has made it her life’s work to help children with spinal deformities. She also champions disadvantaged teens to pursue a career in STEM.

4 May, 2024 | Law, Real Focus feature stories

QUT’s health law experts Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White have played a key role in end-of-life law in Australia. Their extraordinary 20-year-plus professional relationship has helped give 98 per cent of Australians the choice of a better death.

3 May, 2024 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

The devastating impact of fraud has far-reaching consequences. QUT’s Professor Cassandra Cross has made it her mission to give victims of fraud a voice and advocate for change.

2 May, 2024 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

QUT researcher Professor Michael Flood has spent decades advocating for gender equality, and engaging men and boys in domestic and sexual violence prevention. He’s put the notion of healthy masculinities on the map, shaping the public agenda in Australia.

18 April, 2024 | Engineering, Health, Real Focus feature stories

A research project seeks to cut the development time for new life-saving drugs by adding an extra dimension to the process.

17 April, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

One of Australia’s most iconic animals is under threat, with chlamydial disease decimating koala populations in south-east Queensland. Professor Ken Beagley is among those leading the fight to ensure these beloved creatures not only survive, but thrive.

16 April, 2024 | Science, Real Focus feature stories

Saving Australia’s environment starts with understanding it.
A research project using acoustics and AI shows us how.