Indigenous business owner's advice for aspiring artists: "You're ready now"

How Caitlin Trindall is celebrating her culture through art.

How changemaking enhances mental health

An opinion-based editorial by UOW graduate Avalon Bourne.

Finding beauty in seaweed and sustainability

Venus Shell Systems CEO and UOW graduate, Dr Pia Winberg is seeing green with "the crop of Australia's future".

Welcome to The Stand Magazine

We bring to life subjects that illustrate the impact our students, teaching, research and graduates make in the world.

The Stand exists to unlock the knowledge and expertise inside the University of Wollongong (UOW), telling stories about our people and their accomplishments that inform, educate and inspire. This magazine was born out of a renewed sense of place, purpose and values that will guide the University in fulfilling its role in exploring how to resolve society’s large and complex social, environmental and economic challenges.

We believe education is one of the most powerful transformative forces on communities and individuals. It opens minds and helps people find purpose, meaning – and solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.

This is our unified story – a story that draws on our past, understands the present, and looks to the future.

Articles

The two of us: Elisabeth Duursma & Kristen Burriel

Kristen Burriel is a senior social work clinician and relationship therapist, working with people with mental illness. She is also completing her PhD. Her supervisor is Dr Elisabeth Duursma from the School of Education & Early Start Research. Her research interests focus on the role of fathers in the lives of young children and the impact father involvement has on child language and development.

Creating a healthy country

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and with a shortage of doctors across regional, rural and remote Australia, it’s a tough time to practise medicine in country towns.

Analysing infectious diseases

Richard White is an infectious diseases statistician, working in the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The UOW alumnus talks about his career path, and the choices that led him to put his skills and expertise to work on health statistics in the battleground against some of the world’s most frightening disease outbreaks.

Stefania’s journey to outer space

Could it also take the Three-Minute Thesis winner into space one day as well?

What COVID-19 has taught us about our schools

Schools are, at their heart, communities.

Our black summer

It was a New Year's Eve like no other. As the clock counted down to midnight, Nicky Bath and her teenage son toasted 2020 with a bag of Twisties as they sat in the dark, in Nicky's office at the University of Wollongong's Batemans Bay Campus.