Professor Matt Bower, from the Macquarie School of Education, was awarded $426,943 in funding through the NSW Government’s Screen Use and Addiction Research Funding for the project ‘Best practice in screen use for education: Empowering students, teachers and school communities for digital learning.’ The project is a collaboration between all NSW universities to explore how screens impact learning from K-12 and determine current practices and perceptions of screen use for intervention and policy setting.

Associate Professor Karen Pearlman, from the School of Communication, Society and Culture, won the Best Australian Short Award for her film Breaking Plates at the 13th Antenna Documentary Film Festival. The jury said the film is "...a playful invitation to consider very serious questions of feminism and voice, as well as dynamics of structure and agency. The film is an ambitious, experimental exploration of the power of images to both reflect and transform, to challenge and provoke new ways of being in and seeing the world.”

ACHIEVEMENTS

Associate Professor Courtney J. Fung, from the School of International Studies, has been reappointed by Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong for a second and final term to the advisory board of the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. The foundation is an Australian Government initiative which promotes and coordinates enhanced cooperation between Australian and China in support of Australia’s national interests.

Macquarie Law School students reached the grand final of the national Jessup 2025 Moot Competition for the third year in a row. The University of Queensland won, however both teams were praised by Justice Jacqueline Gleeson who presided over the final. Macquarie received the Johnson Shield for the highest ranked Australian team in the international rounds in 2024 for the second year in a row. The team, comprised of Eliza Brunsdon, Madeline Mingay, Rachael Edmonds and Rojina Parchizadeh, and coached by Dr Shireen Daft, now prepare for the international round in Washington D.C.