This National Science Week project will engage students from Transition to Year 9 in a hands-on, place-based science program focused on bush medicine and caring for Country. Working in partnership with Daluk Rangers, students will participate in on-country learning experiences to identify and collect bush medicine that is seasonally available. Rangers will share knowledge about…
Topic: Health and Medical
The Future Starts Here – STEMM After School
What comes after Year 12? Whether you’re considering university, exploring career options, or still figuring out what your future might look like, this panel event is designed to help you navigate the possibilities. Join a diverse panel of university students and STEMM professionals as they share their journeys from school into study, work, and everything…
Attention as Currency with Professor Katherine Johnson
Join Professor Katherine Johnson to explore how attention works and why it can be hard to concentrate. This family-friendly talk explores the neuroscience of attention—how it develops, how it’s taxed, and what science reveals about focus in an information‑saturated world. Join Professor Katherine Johnson as she draws on developmental neuroscience to explain why this valuable…
Decoding the Future of Medical Research
This National Science Week, join our team from St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research for a public panel discussion featuring leading researchers. This engaging experience will spark your curiosity, build your understanding, and showcase the transformative research underway at the new Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery. We will bring cutting-edge, future-focused medical research innovations into…
The Clitoral Chronicles
We’re lifting the hood on the most misunderstood organ in biology: the clitoris! Through immersive performances, outrageous anatomical costumes, and wild but true tales from the animal kingdom, you’ll learn what you should have learned in sex-ed. By looking to science and the world around us, we celebrate and empower perspectives that have historically been…
SexTistics
“Kinky History” star and world’s most charismatic sex historian Dr Esmé Louise James returns to Beaker Street with a whole new show to shed light on our innermost desires and just how common they really are… and she’s bringing her mum! SexTistics is a cheeky, data-driven deep dive into our modern sex lives. Combining their…
Psychedelics Revisited
From the 1950s through the 1970s, early clinical research into psychedelics began to suggest potential benefits for a range of psychological conditions. While some psychedelic plants and fungi have long been used in traditional contexts, substances like LSD and MDMA were later investigated by Western scientists and doctors as potential treatments for conditions from addiction…
The Clitoral Chronicles
We’re lifting the hood on the most misunderstood organ in biology: the clitoris! Through immersive performances, outrageous anatomical costumes, and wild but true tales from the animal kingdom, you’ll learn what you should have learned in sex-ed. By looking to science and the world around us, we celebrate and empower perspectives that have historically been…
Murder on Beaker Street – The science of true crime
A body is discovered. Investigators arrive on the scene. They find no obvious signs of attack or trauma, but something’s not right. It’s the stuff of our favourite podcasts and binge-TV, but how much of true crime is actually true? Join the A-team from Forensic Science Service Tasmania for a front-row seat to how criminal…
Bridges of The Body – How the gut, immune system and brain connect
Join Talks on Tuesdays and the GIN Program at Monash University for a special National Science Week event exploring one of the most fascinating frontiers in modern health science: the connection between your gut, immune system, and brain. Hosted at Brick Lane Market, this lively evening features three fast‑paced 20‑minute talks exploring how the gut, immune…