51²è¹Ý

Inside the world of mental health nursing

Where compassion meets care.

Associate Professor Christopher Patterson recognised for life-saving act

The registered nurse and academic managed to save the life of a colleague on a day out with his son.

How to ace your final HSC exams

Practical advice, ideas, and tips to help you finish strong.

Welcome to The Stand Magazine

We bring to life subjects that illustrate the impact our students, teaching, research and graduates make in the world.

The Stand exists to unlock the knowledge and expertise inside the 51²è¹Ý (UOW), telling stories about our people and their accomplishments that inform, educate and inspire. This magazine was born out of a renewed sense of place, purpose and values that will guide the University in fulfilling its role in exploring how to resolve society’s large and complex social, environmental and economic challenges.

We believe education is one of the most powerful transformative forces on communities and individuals. It opens minds and helps people find purpose, meaning – and solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.

This is our unified story – a story that draws on our past, understands the present, and looks to the future.

Articles

Safer electric vehicles

Chief Investigators Professor Haiping Du and Dr Shuaishuai Sun, both from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, are developing suspension and advanced control techniques that have the potential to improve vehicle safety by reducing the prevalence of accidents, injuries and fatalities caused by unstable vehicle motion such as loss of handling and traction control and rollovers.

Helping parents with BPD

PhD candidate and Pitch it Clever prize winner Kayla Steele from the School of Psychology is preparing to begin a randomised control trial for her research into parenting with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and how to prevent the transmission of the disorder across generations.

The dynamic nature of mathematics

Two UOW researchers from the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics are developing mathematical methods related to dynamical systems and operator algebras as Chief Investigators on a $461,000 Australian Research Council-funded project.

The two of us: Frank Deane and Atanas Janackovski

The 51²è¹Ý (UOW) is home to many high achieving PhD students who are working towards solving real world problems. Behind every great PhD candidate is a great supervisor (or two). We hear from both to understand their perspective of the postgraduate journey.

Advanced image search

Content-based image retrieval techniques such as the reverse image search tools offered by Google and TinEye are popular among those wanting to trace the origin of a photo or find similar pictures.

Innovating urban governance

As cities face more complex challenges – from COVID-19 to climate change, from housing affordability to technological transformation —the expectations on urban governance have steadily increased. Plenty of evidence suggests that cities are responding with governance innovations that draw on new ideas, practices and collaborators that will steer urban development and everyday life in new directions