How do we design cities that are both sustainable and deeply liveable? Christian Bason, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and one of Europe’s leading voices in public sector innovation, brings a unique perspective to this question.

What does it mean to be “alive” in an age of automation, synthetic biology, and artificial environments?

What happens when we break the silence around colonial history? How does acknowledging the past help us heal and connect across communities? And who carries the responsibility for truth-telling—First Nations peoples or non-Indigenous Australians?

How can we envision trans futures? What does trans flourishing look like?

How did Australia’s first family violence refuge come about?

What if your right to a secure home was protected by law?

How will AI really shape our everyday lives?

Is the finance sector equipped for the transition to net zero?

What stories does America tell itself – and who do they serve? In this episode of Impact Talks, we launch the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Democracy Forum with acclaimed historian, author and cultural critic Sarah Churchwell. In her thought-provoking lecture, Sarah explores the national myths that have shaped the United States. She examines how narratives of freedom and opportunity often conceal histories of exclusion, inequality, and disinformation.

What’s in a name? In a vibrant, multicultural society like Australia, names hold deep personal, cultural, and historical meaning.

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more?

How do you build successful businesses while creating meaningful impact?

Kidfluencers are social media influencers with accounts managed by adults.

For the first time, a new report quantifies the employment and educational impacts of domestic violence on Australian women.

Australians must change how we consume goods and services to reduce our environmental impact, but what can businesses do when consumers resist change? How can companies encourage more sustainable behavior while decarbonizing supply chains?

Change for Good at UTS means a transdisciplinary, strategic, systems-thinking approach, combining critical, participatory, and multi-level strategies to create practical solutions for addressing complex health and social issues.

Anna Funder, award-winning writer and author of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, unpacks how the patriarchy continues to maintain the status quo – using the extraordinary lives of Eileen O’Shaughnessy and George Orwell, and her thoughts on the 2023 hit movie Barbie.

How do organisations identify and enact purpose?

This year, Australia is set to establish the role of a Poet Laureate, as part of the federal government’s Revive national cultural policy.

What does it mean to belong in the water?

With the advent of generative AI, manipulation of information and data is taking a new turn. Deepfakes and AI generated and propagated misinformation and disinformation are proliferating online.

How can carbon be remade into stuff that we want and use every day?

World cities are home to the vast bulk of humanity.

Six problems. Six solutions. 

In this extraordinary ‘year of elections’, voters in many parts of the world are being asked, not just to choose between parties and candidates, but to decide whether they still believe in the democratic system itself?

At UTS, our diversity is our strength, with half of our staff and students born overseas and over 40 per cent coming from non-English language backgrounds. Despite this, universities can still be places where racist conduct and practices occur.  

What is the role of the state in tackling climate change, boosting productivity, and creating the jobs of the future through industrial policy?

How do technology, ethics, and responsible AI development intersect and how do they impact on our shared future?

Relive the glory days of Sydney’s iconic Hopetoun Hotel, the legendary Sydney music venue with musicians Sarah Blasko, Sally Seltmann and Clyde Bramley of the Hoodoo Gurus, and music photographer Tony Mott, in a Vivid Festival talk hosted by Liz Giuffre and Gregory Ferris.

How do fashion and technology intersect through AI?

Introducing… Impact Talks at UTS.