What will it take for us to become a spacefaring species? Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins Associate Professor John Culton and Professor Melissa de Zwart to explore humanity’s next chapter.

Coinciding with the launch of our Andy Thomas Institute for Space Resources, they discuss how the challenge of living beyond Earth extends far beyond rockets and robots, demanding new thinking about law, health, ethics, resource stewardship, and what it means to build sustainable communities off our home planet.

Find out more about the AU in Conversation video podcast here: adelaide.edu.au/auinconversation

What will it take for us to become a spacefaring species? Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins Associate Professor John Culton and Professor Melissa de Zwart to explore humanity&rsquo;s next chapter.
Coinciding with the launch of our Andy Thomas Institute for Space Resources, they discuss how the challenge of living beyond Earth extends far beyond rockets and robots, demanding new thinking about law, health, ethics, resource stewardship, and what it means to build sustainable communities off our home planet.
Find out more about the AU in Conversation video podcast here: adelaide.edu.au/auinconversation

Our place in space: Living beyond Earth

Housing has become one of Australia's most pressing challenges, but what happens when a society built around the promise of home ownership can no longer reliably deliver it? 

Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins Professor Emma Baker and researcher Kira Page to explore affordability and inequality, and how younger generations are adapting through long-term renting, shared living and the uniquely Australian phenomenon of rentvesting. 

Find out more about the AU in Conversation video podcast here: adelaide.edu.au/auinconversation

Housing has become one of Australia's most pressing challenges, but what happens when a society built around the promise of home ownership can no longer reliably deliver it? Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins Professor Emma Baker and researcher Kira Page to explore affordability and inequality, and how younger generations are adapting through long-term renting, shared living and the uniquely Australian phenomenon of rentvesting. Find out more about the AU in Conversation video podcast here: adelaide.edu.au/auinconversation

Home truths: Housing, health and the future of fairness

Do the humanities matter more than ever as AI transforms how we live, work and connect?

Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins musician, author and cultural leader Professor Anna Goldsworthy and screenwriting scholar Professor Craig Batty to explore creativity, culture and storytelling, and why human insight is our best hope in a complex and polarised world.

Do the humanities matter more than ever as AI transforms how we live, work and connect?
Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips joins musician, author and cultural leader Professor Anna Goldsworthy and screenwriting scholar Professor Craig Batty to explore creativity, culture and storytelling, and why human insight is our best hope in a complex and polarised world.

 The humanities edge: Creativity, culture and what comes next

What are the issues keeping public health experts awake at night? How can universities help safeguard communities amid the rise of misinformation and the return of old disease foes?

Vaccinologist Professor Helen Marshall joins Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips to explore the next pandemic threat, the vanguard of vaccine research and the forces driving a drop in herd immunity.

What are the issues keeping public health experts awake at night? How can universities help safeguard communities amid the rise of misinformation and the return of old disease foes?
Vaccinologist Professor Helen Marshall joins Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips to explore the next pandemic threat, the vanguard of vaccine research and the forces driving a drop in herd immunity.

Immunity and impact: Vaccines, trust, and global health

The "AI vampire" phenomenon, Claude addiction and the future of learning are all up for debate as Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips sits down with one of Australia's leading voices in artificial intelligence, Professor Anton van den Hengel, and postgraduate student Oliver Lack.

Together they explore how AI can lift access to learning and ponder how and indeed whether to police and punish AI cheating.

The "AI vampire" phenomenon, Claude addiction and the future of learning are all up for debate as Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips sits down with one of Australia's leading voices in artificial intelligence, Professor Anton van den Hengel, and postgraduate student Oliver Lack.
Together they explore how AI can lift access to learning and ponder how and indeed whether to police and punish AI cheating.

AI: The electricity of our future - how universities can power what’s next

This is AU in Conversation — a new video podcast from Adelaide University, exploring the big questions, challenges and breakthroughs that are shaping our world and the higher education sector.

This is AU in Conversation &mdash; a new video podcast from Adelaide University, exploring the big questions, challenges and breakthroughs that are shaping our world and the higher education sector.

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AU in Conversation explores the ideas reshaping our world and the role universities play in what comes next.

Hosted by Adelaide University Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips, the podcast brings bold thinking and real-world insight to the biggest questions of our time.

AU in Conversation explores the ideas reshaping our world and the role universities play in what comes next.
Hosted by Adelaide University Vice Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips, the podcast brings bold thinking and real-world insight to the biggest questions of our time.

AU in Conversation explores the ideas reshaping our world and the role universities play in what comes next. 

AU in Conversation

AU in Conversation explores the ideas reshaping our world and the role universities play in what comes next.

Hosted by Adelaide University Vice-Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips, the podcast brings bold thinking and real-world insight to the biggest questions of our time.

AU in Conversation explores the ideas reshaping our world and the role universities play in what comes next.
Hosted by Adelaide University Vice-Chancellor Professor Nicola Phillips, the podcast brings bold thinking and real-world insight to the biggest questions of our time.

AU in Conversation

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