Social justice and sustainability

UTS Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt has been recognised with an AO in the 2020 Australia Day Honours.

Ross Garnaut lays out the path to 100 percent renewable energy for Australia.

Dr Martin Parkinson AC, the most senior Australian public servant charged with climate policy, talked candidly with former...

Did you know that human trafficking and slavery still happen in Australia? This comic explains how. 

Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson explain how understanding the history of gender violence can help our future.

With an epidemic of youth suicide, child removal and justice...

Antoinette Lattouf talks about her career, and why she started a new scholarship program for journalism students.

Can the future of food be tasty, sustainable and profitable?

UTS has signed the Climate Emergency Declaration.

UTS, the NTEU and UTS Enviro Collective are organising events and activities to show support for Global Climate Strike.

The innovative new initiative aimed at closing the gender wage gap.

How the global community can work to safeguard our fundamental rights to water and sanitation.

Academic Arian Wallach took a critical look at how she could impact gender inequality in her field.

Forced to leave Myanmar and his medical degree, Mujibur has fought the odds to chase his dream.

Meet the marine scientist helping save our reefs, and advocating for women in STEMM while she does it.

Within five years, 50 per cent of Australian children could...

UTS's Professor Michael McDaniel is NAIDOC Scholar of the Year for 2019.

The ABC's War on Waste is sparking national action against waste levels.

Collaborative living is revolutionising housing in Australia.

How have the all gender bathrooms affected some of our UTS students?

You’re an Australian bee. It’s difficult to do your job where the trees have disappeared. But there is hope.

Massilia Aili explains what it's really like behind Villawood Detention and Immigration Centre.

Michael McDaniel is breaking new ground with Australia’s first university Indigenous Residential College. 

Marine biologist Emma Camp has a theory about how we can save reefs at risk from climate change. 

As demand for minerals such as lithium and rare earths skyrockets, the already significant environmental and human impacts...

Startup 'Yerrabingin' have opened Australia’s first Indigenous Rooftop farm.

A new national research assessment has shown UTS is leading the country when it comes to research impact.

New research suggests plumes of floodwater in Queensland will stress corals in the Great Barrier Reef.

With more people renting in Australia, more vulnerable people are living in inefficient rental properties.

Research funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has developed a roadmap to surviving global warming.