by Alana | Oct 10, 2020 | General News, Latest News, News
It is well reported that I am women of a certain age; I have enjoyed the great luxury of a career in frontier science and then a career in education. Not sure what my next one will be. It will be no surprise then that this week has been one of interesting highs and...
by Alana | Oct 4, 2020 | General News, Latest News, News
This has been one of those weeks when my inner ‘swan’ featured more than other latent genetic ancestry. With some 60 odd per cent of shared avian DNA ruffling my proverbial feathers, I was overwhelmed by a sense of gentle gliding across critical and known...
by Alana | Sep 26, 2020 | General News, Latest News, News
A week of interesting challenges. For many, the sadness of losing one of the giants – Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I was fortunate to hear her present in the US Supreme Court as well as attend some of her community presentations when I lived in Washington DC. It is...
by Alana | Sep 20, 2020 | General News, Latest News, News
Another week has passed by in a blink and yet so much has happened (granted in my small sphere). The hiatus across higher education is a topic of current national interest as the sector will likely shed some 21,000 jobs (more than the 9,000 projected loss from Qantas,...
by Alana | Sep 11, 2020 | General News, Latest News, News
When Patrick Geddes first promoted the ‘think locally, act globally’ concept over a hundred years ago his perspectives were doubtless bounded by his awareness of the social geography of the early 20th century and fruitful discourse with Huxley, Darwin and colleagues....