We gate-crashed the 2017 University of Melbourne professional Staff Conference to alleviate your FOMO (that’s your fear of missing out!). Hear the thought-provoking messages from keynote speakers Dr Susan Carland, Dr Charles Day as well as snippets from conference speakers and participants. We chat about the problem and solutions to silo behaviour, working with ‘mythical millennials’ and how a greener campus is doable and fun.
Production: Dr Andi Horvath and Claudia Hooper
Audio engineering: Arch Cuthbertson

Special Episode: Event FOMO ‘Creating Connections’

These days we share so many opinions online, but can all that public information be harnessed to benefit our communities? Two researchers from the University of Melbourne are taking on the data from twitter to plot how people feel about urban green spaces. Their fine-combing reveals fascinating patterns in behaviours and could see changes in the way public planning is conducted. In this episode Kate Murray from the Networked Society Institute is Dr Elham Naghizade, Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Kwan Hui Lim, School of Computing and Information Systems to share how they turned city parks into living labs and uncovered how urban design is affecting our moods.
Producer: Kate Murray and Andi Horvath
Audio engineer: Gavin Nebauer
Editing: Arch Cutherbertson, Kate Murray and Claudia Hooper
Voiceover: Chris Hatzis

Urban Green Spaces

Being a Special Collections Intern

Preserving languages with Nick Thieberger

Vulvas with Liz Dean

The Daisy Bates Collection with Nick Thieberger

Today our guest is Dr Erin O’Donnell, a water law and policy specialist. Erin’s research focuses on the challenge of sustainable water resource management, with an emphasis on transferable water rights and water markets. 

Producers: Buffy Gorrilla and Dr Andi Horvath
Editors: Silvi Vann-Wall and Buffy Gorrilla. 
Audio Engineer:  Gavin Nebauer 

5 Things About is a created by Dr Andi Horvath and is a production of the University of Melbourne, Australia. This episode was recorded on the 17th December 2017.

Suing A River with Erin O'Donnell

The Habsburg Empire with Kurt Baird and Bess Keaney

Getting your start with Adam Elliot

Thanks to Nicole Engwirda and Professor Donald Bates. This episode was recorded on 27 February 2018. 
Production by James Rafferty.
Editing by Silvi Vann-Wall and James Rafferty.
Audio Engineering by Ben Pawson.
5 Things About is a training podcast created by Dr Andi Horvath at the University of Melbourne.

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Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge with Ken Winkel

5 Things About is for you and your inner curious cat. The part of you that just loves to know what others know about inventions, ideas, people and places. You’ve heard the proverb “curiosity killed the cat” … the rest of the proverb is “but satisfaction brought it back.”

The 5 Things About podcast is a University of Melbourne training program created by Dr Andi Horvath.

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