The Green Knight review: a wonderfully unsettling cinematic reimagining of the medieval story of...
By Sabina Rahman, Macquarie University
Review: The Green Knight, directed by David Lowery.
Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery, is...
Emma is hanging up the yellow skivvy: how the ‘first girl Wiggle’ created a...
By Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney
When Emma Watkins took over as “The Yellow Wiggle” in 2012 there were huge headlines. Her casting was...
Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is...
By Sung-ae Lee, Macquarie University
Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two...
Fitting in or falling out: how African migrants adapt to life in Australia
By Victor Counted, Western Sydney University and Andre M.N. Renzaho, Western Sydney University
As of 2020, over 281 million of the world’s population live outside...
9 tips to give yourself the best shot at sticking to new year’s resolutions
By Joanne Dickson, Edith Cowan University
For many cultures, the dawn of the new year is marked not only with celebration, but also the opportunity...
Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’
By Peter A. Heslin, UNSW
This article was first published in The Conversation on 1 January 2019
Every year most of us make New Year’s resolutions....
Symbolic gestures, magical thinking: New Year’s resolutions
By Jayashri Kulkarni, Monash University
This article was first published in The Conversation in December 31, 2014
“I will definitely give up smoking – that’s my...
Feeling pressured to buy Christmas presents? Read this (and think twice before buying candles)
Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Jana Bowden, Macquarie University
Christmas marks a peak in consumerism across the West. Despite the COVID downturn, this...
This video shows just how easily COVID-19 could spread when people sing together
By C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW; Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW; Charitha de Silva, UNSW; Con Doolan, UNSW; Prateek Bahl, UNSW, and Shovon Bhattacharjee, UNSW
Production of...
Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place
By Sin Wen Lau, University of Otago and Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Deakin University
Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan was released last week amid much controversy....