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Philipp Steinke reflects on his life-changing exchange experience in Barcelona, made possible by the 2018 School of Economics Jubilee Scholarship.

The Tel Aviv Startup Adventure, ran by The University of Queensland's Idea Hub, is an excellent opportunity for students to explore the fast-developing business world, learn essential networking skills and see an exciting new place.

Nine budding economists from high schools across Queensland demonstrated their economic prowess with top scores in the QETA and UQ 2018 Student Economics Competition.

Emily Dahl shares her learnings and experiences from the Crawford Fund’s 2018 annual agricultural and food security conference, held at Parliament House, Canberra.

Four women in economics reflect on the challenges they’ve faced, and share how they’re working to inspire the next generation of leaders and change the game for the benefit of the profession and society.

At the end of another week of chaos in Canberra, we’re all asking why this keeps happening. Why are our leaders playing politics instead of governing?

Dr Brendan Markey-Towler (School of Economics) dives into the theory of 'loss aversion' - a core idea in behavioural economics - in an explainer piece for The Conversation.

A not-for-profit that offers wilderness-based peer support intervention to veterans is getting set to spread its message far and wide, thanks to a student team from The University of Queensland.

When University of Queensland graduate Charles Coverdale accepts his Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Science testamurs today, he will be dreaming of his next startup idea.

Two alumni from The University of Queensland’s School of Economics were among the honourees on the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

That new technologies could actually be bad for us, by sapping our attention or ruining our memories, is an argument that goes back to Socrates. It’s tempting to summarily dismiss these concerns, but such tech-doomsaying is actually an important part of economic discovery.

Why foreign investment is no easy fix for Africa's energy needs.

Three projects involving researchers from The University of Queensland’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law will share in more than $600,000 in funding from the Federal Government’s Australian Research Council Linkage Project grants.

The School of Economics' Associate Professor Renuka Mahadevan has received a prestigious Understanding China Fellowship.

The internationally renowned speaker Professor Donna Ginther, from the University of Kanas, gave a thought-provoking presentation on the effects of mentoring women in academia to over 70 delegates at the University of Queensland on 1 June.

The University of Queensland has appointed Professor Daniel Zizzo as the new Head of School and Academic Dean for UQ’s School of Economics.

The UQ School of Economics hosted a Smart City Workshop on Monday 28 May 2018 to provide a forum for collaboration and ideas sharing on how to address the impact of rapid ditigalisation on urban areas.

These three-year fellowships foster the development of promising ECRs and reward exceptional mid-career and senior academic staff.

In 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during his final match of the Chess Olympiad in Norway. Within hours, another was found dead in his hotel room. Earlier, a chess grandmaster died of a heart attack while playing a tournament game in Finland in 2000. Within the same year, another player died after having a stroke during his tournament in Berlin.

These incidents led many to believe the stress of playing chess could be harmful and even fatal. So we decided to test the theory playing chess at an elite level elevates the risk of premature death.

Eminent School of Economics researcher, Dr Ian MacKenzie, presents solutions for Australia following the decision by China to no longer accept our recycling waste.