With 30 years of experience in the heritage sector, and as Managing Director of SHP, Sue Hodges exercises best practices in enabling the rights of Firsts Nations peoples to determine how their histories are told in the design and production of heritage interpretation. Sue is a doctoral researcher at UTS with a PhD project on the ‘Economic and social value of heritage interpretation’. Read More
A wide-ranging conversation about gender, race, ethnicity and university student collectives specifically the UTS Ethnocultural Collective and the Queer Collective. Read More
Jake Stone shares his special interest in martial arts and how it relates to his experiences of school bullying. Read More
To coincide with International Workers' Day, historian Professor Glenda Sluga kindly participated in a chat about internationalism with attention to how international workers associations and the International Labour Organization fits in the history of the early phase of twentieth century internationalism. Read More
Greg Poppleton shares the origins of his interests in swing and jazz music of the early twentieth century and archival radio broadcasts of the era that he carefully curates and presents in non-stop mixes for his long running radio program The Phantom Dancer. Read More
An introduction to neural circuits and brain chemistry with behavioural neuroscientist Dr Christina Perry from the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. Read More
In part two of this chat with author Nicholas Graham we hear about his vocational pathway to becoming a novelist of historical fiction, and what horse riding and reading Latin have to do with this vocational pursuit. Read More
Oula Ghannoum is a Lebanese-Australian Muslim who has happy memories of Ramadan evening festivities during her childhood in Tripoli. Oula kindly provides an introduction to the religious and cultural significance of Ramadan for the interest of non-Muslim listeners and shares insights about how Ramadan is observed in Sydney. This includes a description of prayer rituals at mosques and street food fairs such as the Lakemba Night Markets and about Sawm (fasting) and Zakat (charitable giving). Read More
A television professional with vast experience as a Master Control Operator, Julia Beveridge gives us an introduction to what's involved in the role including some of the technicalities of managing all of the vision and audio for the network and the communication skills that help in this line of work. Read More
Dr Kumi de Silva is Gender Equity Programs Manager at the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS in conversation about gender equity issues and sharing what motivated her vocational shift away from academic research as a scientist to this professional role. Read More
Karima Hazim shares the motivation behind her efforts to document and share Lebanese food culture and how it relates to the history of the Lebanese migrant experience in Australia. Read More
Hear about DJ Soup’s approach to sampling and music making and his contributions to the emergence of hip hop and trip hop in the Australian scene as well as his experience playing professional basketball for the Sydney Kings. Read More
Hear about DJ Soup’s early experiences experimenting with developments in audio sampling technology from a double cassette boom box to an Amega 500 and a K2000 sampler. DJ Soup also shares his early musical influences in the family and some of the first records he recalls hearing and playing. Read More
Jenine Smith shares insights from her vocation as a careers adviser, assisting high school students with understanding their skills, abilities and interests and with identifying post-school learning and vocational opportunities. Jenine is President of the Careers Advisers Association of NSW & ACT. Read More
Yirrmal joined us via a studio in Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land to discuss his music, culture, and community connections and his experience developing his song writing as a new generation artist. Read More
This is a follow up to an introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) in response to a listener suggestion that we should consider concerns and fears about the technology. Read More