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.

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 exponential increase in violent video games is not necessarily a bad thing.

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 supplies can be more sustainably managed through water recycling.

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

Volunteering during a disaster can bring great benefits to individuals and the community but there are a few things to consider before rolling up your sleeves, says Dr Debbie Haski-Leventhal, NAB Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW.

On any night in Australia there will be 100,000 homeless people. Marion Downey speaks with Dr Lucy Burns from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre about the medical needs of this marginalised section of society, particularly those with a dependency on drugs and/or alcohol.

Writer and performance artist Fiona McGregor speaks with PhD student Charlotte Farrell about her books "Indelible Ink" and "Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland".