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LGBTIQA+ Allies make an important contribution to the university and wider community by creating a safe, welcoming and inclusive space for sex, gender, and sexuality diverse people.

Wild swimming is not only good for our health, it can also be good for ocean and beach ecologies too. Dr Rebecca Olive writes for The Conversation.

The exceptional work of six academic staff members from UQ’s Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences has been recognised with their appointments to Professor.

Each month we shine the spotlight on a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) student within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

For anyone wanting to know more about athletics, World Athletics have launched an innovative eLearning platform designed to educate everyone from newcomers to experts.

Postgraduate research students recently presented their work to academia, industry and their peers at the HMNS Postgraduate Student Conference.

Q&A with Dr Shelley Keating, NHMRC Early Career Fellow within the UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

In this interview with ABC News, UQ's Dr Veronique Chachay explains that there is no one optimal diet.

Facilitating a physically active lifestyle and better social connectedness for Brisbane-based military veterans is the focus of a new program being trialled by researchers at The University of Queensland.

Each month we shine the spotlight on a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) student within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

The social isolation requirements of COVID-19 meant the HMNS Personal Training Service had to transition entirely online in the same year that the number of students in the program almost doubled.

A special issue, to be published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues in early 2021, examines relationships between blue spaces, sport, physical activity, and wellbeing.

The new NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Digestive Health will advance the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of chronic digestive diseases.

High-intensity interval training (HIIT) can help heart patients with their recovery and is more effective than moderate-intensity continuous training in the short term, according to University of Queensland research.

National Health and Physical Education (HPE) Day aims to raise awareness of, and advocate for, a greater focus of HPE in schools.

On 2nd September we celebrated National Health & Physical Education (HPE) Day so we caught up with Meg Wilkinson who is balancing her career as a HPE and Science Teacher with completing her PhD.  

An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take nine hours to present, but students in the UQ Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition present their thesis and its significance in dynamic and informative presentations of just three minutes in length.

Each month we shine the spotlight on a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) student within the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.

PhD students from the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences will compete in the virtual Faculty Final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition on Thursday 6 August.

Q&A with Dr Gabriela Mena, PhD candidate within the Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health (CRExPAH) at the UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences (HMNS).