TV shows and interview series

What happens when you listen to music? What happens in your brain? And what makes music sad, poignant or joyful?Emma Ayres from ABC's Classic FM hosts this discussion recorded for ABC's Big Ideas program. Professor Andrew Schultz – composer and head of the school of Arts and the Media at UNSW, and music psychologist Associate Professor Emery Schubert, from the same school pro

What motivates someone to give $3 million to support Indigenous education? On the eve of the opening of Balnaves Place -- Home of Nura Gili at UNSW, businessman Dr Neil Balnaves AO spoke to Sarah Macdonald about his passion for closing the gap, the dos and don'ts of philanthropy and how UNSW students have inspired him.

Dr Jay Giedd, guest of UNSW's 2012 Brain Sciences Symposium, is the Chief of Brain Imaging at the U.S. Institute of Mental Health and has spent more than 20 years researching the adolescent brain. He speaks with Sarah Macdonald about how the explosion of social media and other challenges of  modern society are changing the young brain, why reading isn't "natural", and why the

UNSW's Law graduates will be even better prepared for their chosen career thanks to changes that will equip students with more practical skills and a new global perspective. Here UNSW Law Dean Prof David Dixon outlines the new curriculum and explains why it's the biggest change to legal education since UNSW "broke the mould" in 1971.

Australians at high risk of smoking, such as the mentally ill and prisoners are successful in giving up the habit if they’re supported in complying with treatment regimes, according to Professor Robyn Richmond from UNSW Medicine’s School of Public Health.Here Prof Richmond tells Sarah Macdonald that while Australia has one of the lowest smoking rates in the world, the s

UNSW's Dr Jennifer Biddle has been travelling to the Central and Western Desert in the Norther Territory since the late 1980s, when the Aboriginal art movement was taking off.Now a Senior Research Fellow based at COFA's National Institute for Experimental Art, her research debunks the idea that all Indigenous art is "traditional".

Plans for coal seam gas mining across Australia are expanding rapidly, yet there are no national regulations in place and a lack of information as to the possible environmental impacts.Dr Stuart Khan, from UNSW's Water Research Centre, outlines the processes involved in coal seam gas mining and the subsequent implications for our groundwater.

Plans for coal seam gas mining across Australia are expanding rapidly, yet there are no national regulations in place and a lack of information as to the possible environmental impacts.Dr Stuart Khan, from UNSW's Water Research Centre, outlines the processes involved in coal seam gas mining and the subsequent implications for our groundwater. He also discusses ways that urban water

ABC presenter Jonathan Holmes interviews Associate Professor David McKnight from UNSW's Journalism and Media Research Centre on new his book, 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation Of Political Power'. The book looks at Rupert Murdoch's pursuit of political goals using News Corporation as his vehicle.  

UNSW's Dr Anthony Billingsley on the Spring uprising in the Middle East which has seen four autocrats removed from power.