Addressing global challenges

Making a positive impact on today's global challenges

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Challenges of our age

Our Strategic Plan, Impact 2030, charts the path for how the University will actively contribute to addressing these challenges through its research and education, and in collaboration with government, industry, alumni, donors, and community.

Learn how Monash is already making a global impact, from preventing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, addressing human rights and social justice to finding green energy solutions and more.

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Monash research, opinion and insights, by the experts

Through Monash Lens, our What Happens Next? podcast and A Different Lens video documentary series, you can gain evidence-based insights and perspectives on how our experts are addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges. Read. listen. Watch.

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Stories

READ: Monash Lens

Through compelling fact-based story-telling and expert commentary, Lens brings into sharp focus the work being undertaken by our research and academic communities and the impact that work is having on a local, national and global scale.

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Podcasts

LISTEN: What Happens Next?

How does an ordinary day transform into an extraordinary opportunity for change? It happens the moment you press play on the newest season of Monash University’s multi-award-winning podcast, What Happens Next?

Join Dr Susan Carland as she explores these questions with global experts and thought leaders to find out what could happen if we don’t change.

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Short documentaries

WATCH: A Different Lens

What happens when robots can make better decisions than we can? How is terrorism shaping our schools? Will true sustainability cost us our way of life?  This documentary series draws on the unique perspectives of academic and industry leaders to answer these and many more questions.

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