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Taking the mission out to the streets
Meet the paramedicine lecturer taking his students out into the community to learn and bring health care to homeless people.
The chasm between disability services and prisons
Uncovering the cycle of disadvantage inside and outside prisons for people who are often invisible to the justice system.
One step at a time
Daniel Van den Hoek is helping people experiencing marginalisation improve physical and mental wellbeing, one step at a time.
Why we need a mindset shift in child online safety
Bringing human values to the fore in our engagement with digital technology, with ACU’s Professor Susan Edwards.
Paving an even road out of crisis
The pandemic has left scars on our community’s most marginalised. We talked to Dr Tom Barnes about what can be done to heal them.
Helping students through the year that changed us all
Psychologist Samantha Whitehead on how ACU’s Counselling and Disability Service has assisted students through the pandemic.
Lifting the silence on Australia's trans history
ACU historian Adrien McCrory on his journey of exploration into the experiences of trans and gender-diverse Australians.
A safer place for women and children to live
ACU PhD candidate Ulrike Marwitz has a goal to widen our society’s understanding of family violence.
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