Principles for pandemic preparedness
With concerns about the resurgence of COVID-19 in Melbourne and Sydney, there are key steps Australian authorities have taken to raise preparedness levels. In an editorial […]
Archive Author: Tania Bawden
Concerns raised over hospital security
Security guards employed at hospitals may be ill-prepared to deal with Code Black situations where patients or visitors appear threatening or violent, says Flinders University Professor […]
Them bones, them bones ...
A newly described extinct family of giant wombat relatives, by UK and Australian researchers, has been made possible by a pioneering trip into outback South Australia […]
Funding for vital climate change research
A number of Flinders University Climate Response Seed Grant projects have started. The project summary and lead chief investigators from three colleges will help progress ongoing […]
Professor takes pregnancy health 'beyond'
Professor Claire Roberts, one of the newest Matthew Flinders Fellows to join our University, has brought the ‘Pregnancy Health and Beyond’ research team to Flinders. Professor […]
Paris on her way to Adelaide
Whyalla student Paris Pauling is one of 287 rural and regional students to receive a tertiary scholarship from the $1.1 million 2020 Bendigo and Adelaide Bank […]
Better insulin from sea snail model
Diabetes treatments could be improved following the development of a dramatically modified form of human insulin, called ‘Mini-Ins’, that successfully mimics the ultra-fast-acting properties of cone […]
$4.67m for cancer, sleep, ageing research - plus COVID-19 projects
Congratulations to three of the latest Flinders University NHMRC grant recipients, Professor Danny Eckert, Associate Professor Simon Conn and Dr Monica Cations. Their projects in sleep […]
Archaeology Week is full of life
National Archaeology Week 2020 is in full swing, with the public and students from many disciplines joining leaders of Flinders Archaeology in a series of special […]