As school holidays continue around Australia, many parents are looking for educational ways to keep their children entertained.

If you own an Android device and have young children, you may find yourself browsing Google Play for educational and age-appropriate apps. If you go to the 

In my last post, ‘Transferring your funding’, I talked in general about the things to consider for your grants when you move universities.

This post covers the questions that I ask when someone says “I’m coming to your university and I need to transfer my grant”.

As I said last time, it is worth remembering that my experience is based on what happens in ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, decades of research have given us some clear answers to both questions.

Concision is not the same as brevity. A short piece of writing can be wasteful with its words, and a long piece can be meaning-full right to the last sentence. Getting concise is about getting clear about meanings, not addressing the total word count. When you cut a sentence that does no work, or replace a five-word phrase with one word that carries the same message, ...

The Department of Justice announced in March 2026 that it is