Speaker: Shane Greenup Fake News has become a huge issue with a great deal of money and resources being invested into solving it. But have any of the suggested solutions got any chance of actually doing that? In this talk Greenup will look at the key...
Professor John Keane 1 March 2017...
Speakers: Professor Lisa Bero, Dr Barbara Mintzes, Dr Quinn Grundy, and Dr Nick Chartres This seminar will present the work of the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative (EPIC), a University of Sydney initiative focusing on evidence-based health policy. EPIC’s research program is centred around evidence synthesis...
Presented by Sydney Ideas, Sydney Democracy Network and the Post-Truth Initiative Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses his favourite subjects: power and accountability, surveillance and privacy, Trump and fake news, threats to democracy, courage, and the role of journalism in giving a voice to perspectives and events that are ignored and silenced by...
This seminar lays out one of the projects under the Sydney Post-Truth Initiative, on the political use of falsehoods, obfuscation, and denialism on a range of environmental issues. It’s about the politics of the Bull, rather than the nature of the Shit. Rather than focus...
3 February 2017 21 research projects awarded $3M under new Sydney funding scheme, SREI 2020 A real-time bullsh*t detector, a unique pathogen discovery centre and a new way to combat untreatable blindness are among the 21 projects funded under a new Sydney funding scheme. The Sydney Research Excellence Initiative -...