A researcher from the University of Notre Dame Australia has co-authored a global-first position statement, which is redefining how risky play among adolescents is understood by highlighting the role of challenge and exploration in helping young people develop confidence, resilience and lifelong well-being. Growing Through Risk: Supporting Play and Wellbeing from 9-15 years, produced by Pla...

Researchers and practitioners from The University of Notre Dame Australia recently shared their expertise on the international stage at the third Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (G.R.A.C.E.) Colloquium, held at Boston College in the United States. The international gathering brought together almost 200 Catholic educators, school leaders, researchers and sector representative...

A major new research program led by the University of Notre Dame Australia is set to transform how police recruits are trained, with the goal of significantly reducing injuries, improving retention, and saving millions of dollars in public funds. Associate Professor Myles Murphy, a physiotherapist and Raine Medical Research Foundation Fellow based at Notre Dame’s Institute for Health Resear...

The University of Notre Dame Australia will host a A$3.5 million share of a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant in its Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) for a project examining methods of logical argumentation across the Abrahamic philosophical traditions (Jewish, Christian and Islamic). Newly appointed Professor of Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Professor Tony ...

A Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Notre Dame Australia will travel overseas to advance her research into affordable and inclusive housing after receiving a prestigious industry award. Stephanie Lade was awarded the Architect Board of Western Australia’s Graduate Board Award, which recognises an outstanding Master of Architecture graduate for excellence in their studie...

Researchers at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) are concerned that social media is a contributing factor to the declining rates of youth literacy in Australia. Research shows that since the pandemic there has been a massive increase in youth social media usage, while at the same time young people are spending less free time on constructive hobbies such as reading. Literacy among ...

The University of Notre Dame Australia has announced four Transformative Research Fellowships for 2026, supporting research that improves lives and contributes to the common good. The Transformative Research Fellowships are a flagship initiative of the University’s Research Strategy that invests in promising researchers to build Notre Dame’s research capability. Transformative Research F...

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame Australia are exploring solutions to energy poverty in remote Indigenous communities – a problem that sees some of Australia’s most vulnerable left without power in extreme heat for days on end.

Under the Code of Canon Law, a public juridic person (PJP) is the Church’s equivalent of a civil corporation, such as dioceses, parishes or religious congregations, established to carry out apostolate works in the name of the Church.

In 2007, the ACBC commissioned a project, Catholics who have stopped attending Mass, which focused on once active Catholics who had ceased participating in Mass and their parish, and the interpersonal, cultural and societal factors that led to their disengagement with liturgy and ecclesial life.