Tag: humans of macquarie

Desserts from The Sweetest Memory promo video

Shared humanity through recipes and personal memories

Everyone has a recipe and a sweet memory to share: Help students from refugee or asylum-seeker backgrounds AND get a great recipe story book.

/ 28 November, 2018
20181031 Murray Taylor VC L&T Awards

Watch Murray’s funny speech at the VC’s L&T Awards 2018

Sharing his very personal and candid story of growth, Dr Murray Taylor, who was the recipient of a Vice-Chancellor Citation Award in Learning and Teaching 2018, had the room in stitches. A moment too good not to share!

/ 14 November, 2018
Olga at the staff circus workshop

Defensive pessimism and self-handicapping: Helping students

Olga shares some lessons from the Staff Wellbeing Week circus skills workshop that can help educators deal with defensive pessimism in students.

/ 8 November, 2018
Zoe, Pierre, Matthew and Jacqueline

The Hum: Humans Of Macquarie

Zoe talks about Macquarie's collegial spirit, Pierre shares how he loves helping people, Jacqueline recalls how happy she's been to help establish the Medical Faculty and Matthew explains why uni's more enjoyable than school.

/ 23 August, 2018
Amos, Dimity, Khyiah, Eugene

The Hum – Humans of MUIC

Amos tells us his Teaching Philosophy, Khyiah shares how she writes Young Adult Fiction, Eugene talks about student motivation and Dimity speaks about her move from W.A.

/ 6 July, 2018

The Hum, Humans of Macquarie

We chat to Francesca about the Socratic method in action, to Lucas about finding the right career path, Judith's experience of jury duty and Beaudi's VR experience of factory farms.

/ 11 May, 2018

The HUM – O-Week Student Edition

This week we chatted to students about how they're embracing O-week.

/ 22 February, 2018
The HUM, pictures by Michael Garganera

The HUM,
Humans of Macquarie

On our walk around campus this week we met a Big History convenor, a Mental Health Research Assistant, an AV Technician and student and an FBE lecturer.

/ 7 February, 2018
"Humans of Macquarie" - Eric. Photo by Mike Catabay for LIH

The HUM, Humans of Macquarie – Eric

Inspired by Humans of New York, we randomly approached someone, took their photo and asked some questions about their everyday life, with the aim of seeing a more diverse slice of Macquarie life.

/ 17 January, 2018