Healthy Homes

Living in a cold house can be bad for your health and bad for your quality of life. In this breakthrough study, researchers from UTS teamed up with Sustainability Victoria to look at the benefits of making houses warmer for vulnerable people. What they found was that spending relatively small amo…

'Nothing about us, without us': Autistic girls, women and gender diverse people lead new research

For years, it was assumed that autism affected boys at four times the rate of girls. New research is challenging that thinking and looking at why autism in girls, women and gender diverse people has been overlooked for so long. Inspired by the disability rights slogan, ‘Nothing about us, without …

Can you handle the heat? Keeping cool on the job

Heat stress comes with the job when you’re a firefighter. But if you’re fighting a bush fire in the middle of a national park, or on a busy city motorway, what is the most effective way to cool down? How effectively you can do this has life-threatening implications.  This ground-breaking partners…

Strange Bedfellows: Saving lives and saving money

Associate Professor Richard De Abreu Lourenco is a self-described ‘data nerd’ who uses his finance skills to work with doctors.  One of his projects is to assess new treatments for treating prostate cancer and see whether the outcomes present value for money.  How do we balance the need to provid…

‘My husband abuses me’: Domestic violence, midwives and pregnant women

Women are more likely to experience domestic violence when they are pregnant.  This is a time when they develop a close working relationship with midwives.  So how do we train midwives to look for the signs of domestic violence and to offer appropriate support? How do they make use of the intimat…

A Good Death: Transforming palliative care

Death and dying is sometimes seen as the Cinderella in the medical world.  When it comes to palliative care, there is no cure. But there is the challenge of helping people die well. It’s about living well more than dying.  Most research for existing drugs and interventions overlook their uses for…

Tough Love: Treating drug addiction

Odyssey NSW has provided care to people struggling with addiction for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, the impact of its well-known residential rehabilitation program has been confirmed by independent research.  The findings of the study by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) are help…