Celebrating success

Flinders Professors feature in a TV documentary series about human impact on the world, while researchers participate in the world’s largest ever clinical study, and a new book examines how athletes transition into retirement. 

Chemistry at the core of our future survival

Professor Colin Raston

The final part of ABC TV’s latest documentary series The Chemical World brings together global experts to tackle the issue of human impact on the world, and how we can fix the damage before it’s too late.

Professor Colin Raston and research associate Dr Kasturi Vimalanathan from the Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (College of Science and Engineering) feature in Episode 3: Human Impact and discusses how the planet is facing a crisis that can only be mitigated if we all do what is necessary. You can view Episode 3 here. Flinders University palaeontologist Professor John Long was featured in Episode 1: Origins.

World record study

Staff from Flinders University are among a long list of authors and contributors to the world’s largest ever clinical study – featuring 15,025 contributors from 116 countries.

The collaborative study,  SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study, was published in Anaesthesia and has been recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the study with the most authors/contributors, earning this citation: ”The most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper is 15,025 and was achieved by the University of Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh in Birmingham, UK, as verified on 24 March 2021.”

The Flinders contributors are: Professor David Watson, Mr Tim Bright, Dr Paul Hollington, Xuanyu Zhou, Mohamed Afzal, Mathew Amprayil, Dr Mark Brooke-Smith, Dr John Chen, James Grantham, Benjamin Gricks, Amanda Hii, Nikhil Kundu, David Liu, Charles Livingston, Matthew Marshall-Webb, Christina McVeay, Hamish Moore, Gavin Nair, Bee Shan Ong, Dominic Parker, Victoria Rudolph-Stringer, Malgorzata Szpytma, Ravi Vissapragada, Melissa Yun Wee, Geoffrey Yuet Mun Wong.

Athlete retirement examined in new book

Dr Deb Agnew

A new book edited by Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Physical Activity Dr Deb Agnew that discusses various aspects of athlete retirement has been released. Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experienced in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support highlights similarities and differences between athletes from different places and the nuances of place and culture. These studies are presented side-by-side for a textured picture of the different experiences due to athlete retirement. Featuring chapters from authors in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Denmark, Canada and Australia, the book presents global insights into athlete retirement transitions.

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