If you wear clothes – and most of us do – there will be an event, exhibition or activity at this week’s Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) – which started on Monday – that will intrigue…
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RMIT is an international university of technology, design and enterprise.
RMIT’s mission is to empower people and communities to adapt and thrive across generations, with education, research and civic engagement that are applied, inclusive and impactful.
With strong industry connections forged over 135 years, collaboration with industry remains integral to RMIT’s leadership in education, applied research and the development of highly skilled, globally focused graduates.
RMIT’s three campuses in Melbourne – Melbourne City, Brunswick and Bundoora – are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation. Other Victorian locations include Point Cook, Hamilton and Bendigo.
RMIT is redefining its relationship in working with and supporting Aboriginal self-determination. The goal is to achieve lasting transformation by maturing values, culture, policy and structures in a way that embeds reconciliation in everything the University does. RMIT is changing its ways of knowing and working to support sustainable reconciliation and activate a relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
As a global university, RMIT has two campuses and a language centre in Vietnam and a research and industry collaboration centre in Barcelona, Spain. RMIT also offers programs through partners in destinations including Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and mainland China, with research and industry partnerships on every continent.
RMIT has continued to consolidate its reputation as one of the world’s leaders in education, applied and innovative research. Released in 2022, RMIT is ranked 190th in the 2023 QS World University Rankings, 209th in the 2023 US News Best Global Universities Rankings and is in the world’s top 400 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). RMIT also ranked 22nd in the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, 22nd in the 2022 THE Impact Ranking and =53rd globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings.
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Repetition is a rare phenomenon in the real world but a sense of déjà vu is common in the game world. Games made by large studios with massive budgets, often called AAA games, have become ever more detailed…
Luca Belgiorno-Nettis’s family contributed A$600,000 toward the A$10 million budget of this year’s Sydney Biennale (Australia’s largest outdoor arts festival), continuing a long family tradition of generous…
New links between the bacteria in your gut and disease are being made almost daily. We know, for instance, that the microbial communities residing in your intestines have a role in your mood and levels…
In recent days it’s been suggested the Commission of Audit should look at so-called tax expenditures as well as government spending as traditionally defined. Writing in the Australian Financial Review…
Fashion has been slow to engage with wearable technologies, but this is all changing very quickly, now extending beyond digital technologies to cutting-edge fashion and science collaborations. This Thursday…
Earlier this year The Conversation published an article by Rebecca Mostyn about the audience for Australian films. The article includes useful stats pertaining to Screen Australia’s slate of feature films…
Most Australian TV drama series are full of light … and full of surf, sand and suburbs or endless horizons and unthreatening bush. But one series that returned to ABC TV last month has a distinctive and…
One of the world’s largest ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, is back in court appealing the Federal Court’s landmark decision that it was responsible for the losses incurred by 13 New South Wales…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Anastasia Powell considers the role of class in the complex of contributing factors…
So Tony Abbott thinks women have “smashed just about every glass-ceiling” in Australia – and yet, the ceiling still bears down on many of us. During the recent G20 summit the managing director of the International…
There are layers of mythology around what architects actually do in conceptualising and making architecture. These misconceptions are fed by popular architectural stereotypes of 20th-century culture, such…
As was widely expected, Qantas this morning announced a major restructure of its operations. Included in that announcement are: 5000 job losses. A fleet restructure. Salary freezes. Route restructures…
Qantas will cut 5000 jobs, freeze wages of all staff, and sell or defer buying more than 50 aircraft in a bid to cut A$2 billion in costs. The airline said the roles to be lost include 1500 management…
“She wore what‽” From the fashion commentary on the red carpet to the supermarket checkout, the 2014 Oscars fashion script will be no different at the 86th Academy Awards this weekend. But what we can…
Universities Australia has announced an agreement with business groups to collaborate on vocational training to improve the employability of graduates. Universities Australia chair Sandra Harding made…
So it begins – a company running to Canberra with a good story and in need of some or other political favour. To be fair, these companies tend to have very good stories – consumer safety, national security…
What do we expect from Oscar “Best Picture” nominations? A star-studded cast and breathtaking performances? Action sequences and special effects that blow our minds? Or a story so big we’ll remember it…
Environmental scientists have warned the long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health. In a paper published in the Journal of…
While in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, I had the great pleasure to be able to casually hang out with some of the developers from Yager, the studio responsible for Spec Ops: The Line. In 2012, I wrote a…
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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PhD candidate in popular music studies, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Media, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Design & Creative Practice, RMIT University
