Q&A with Professor Robin Dunbar

Evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar answers your questions about Dunbar's Number and his research on friendship. Read More

Careers adviser Jenine Smith

Jenine Smith is President of the Careers Advisors Association of NSW & ACT with insights about the role of careers advisors in high schools and how they assist students with HSC subject selection and identifying vocational interests and opportunities.  Read More

Papyrology, Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge shares insights from her studies of papyrology including ideas about cultural receptions to new forms of knowledge communication technology in antiquity and thoughts on ethical approaches to studying ancient history. Read More

Lower back pain management

Professor Paulo Ferreira is a physiotherapist with a PhD in management of low back pain and a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Here he shares insights about psychological aspects of lower back pain and research on psychological interventions in managing lower back pain. Read More

Urbanist Dr Sarah Barns

Dr Sarah Barns has an interesting and varied vocational life at the intersections of academic research, public art and creative practice, and policy and strategy, with some of her specialities being in Urban Research and Digital Futures. Here we discuss Sarah's early influences and interests and some of the thinking that informs her interdisciplinary approach. Read More

Small bar owner Adam Parker

Adam Parker is a small bar/restaurant owner and shares thoughts on his vocational pathway to being a venue licensee starting out as a musician and a sound and lighting technician. Read More

Getting to know Robin Dunbar

Emeritus Professor Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford speaks about his early life in Australia and East Africa and his accidental pathway into Science via an interest in Philosophy. Read More

Forensic Taphonomy, Dr Maiken Ueland

An introduction to forensic taphonomy and the research of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). Forensic taphonomy is the study of human remains from the time of death to the time of discovery, and AFTER is a facility researching what happens after death with the help of donors who have given their bodies for scientific research. Read More

Gaming and Tech Exploration with Jeremy Ray

Jeremy Ray is a video game critic aka "Junglist" and content strategist for the blockchain tech company Enjin.  You'll hear about Jeremy's aptitude for problem solving and his interest in systems exploration which are qualities that have informed some of his vocational choices.  Read More

High school teacher Rowan Barrow

Rowan Barrow is a special needs high school teacher in Darwin with a background in Sport and Recreation including school sports administration in Arnhem Land and Penang. The feature image is at Nawurlandja lookout Arnhem Land escarpment, National Park. We pay respects to the Bininj/Mungguy people traditional custodians of Kakadu. Read More

Sexuality, History, and Family Memoir

Historian Catherine Freyne is nearing completion of a doctoral thesis at UTS, titled: "The Family as Closet: Gay/Bisexual married men and their families in Sydney, 1970-2000" which places her own father’s story and her family's experience in an historical context. Read More

Introduction to Vaporwave with Max Mahood

2SER volunteer Max Mahood shares his special interest in the multimedia music genre Vaporwave which he wrote about for an MRes thesis at Macquarie University. Read More

Medical cannabis research

Learning about cannabinoid science and developments in medical cannabis research with Cilla Zhou from the Lambert Institute for Cannabinoid Therapeutics Read More

Social enterprise founder, Yvonne Kelly

On World Refugee Day, we hear about a social enterprise that is connecting refugees and new migrants with career coaches and mentors. Yvonne Kelly is a recruitment specialist and careers coach with 25 years experience who founded a social enterprise called Glow Up Careers that trains corporate coaches and mentors to help nurture diverse talent. Read More

Media presenter and writer James Jennings

A conversation with film and music journalist James Jennings about encounters with the creative people he's interviewed over the years. James is a host of The Australian Ghost Whisperer podcast and you'll hear some of his experiences with the supernatural and paranormal. Read More

Workplace diversity and inclusion

Research by academics from Business Schools at UTS and Macquarie University finds that Diversity and Inclusion programs in organisations may actually be perpetuating inequalities. Our guest Professor Alison Pullen is a Professor of Gender, Work and Organization at Macquarie University and a chief investigator in this ARC research project. Read More