Thin people get diabetes too
Pointing the finger at fat as the major or sole contributor to contracting type 2 diabetes is misleading and wrongly promotes the idea that the condition is entirely self-induced, research at Flinders has found.
Flinders set to train China’s new GPs
Flinders University will set up a new general practice (GP) research and training centre in China, providing a platform for medical graduates to become China’s first wave of GPs.
Flinders student returns from exclusive PhD course
Flinders researcher Lisa Pogson gained “a wealth of knowledge” from a prestigious PhD short course taught by some of Australia and Europe’s best biological scientists.
NILS to evaluate DisabilityCare scheme
The National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) at Flinders is leading a team of researchers, academics and disability experts in evaluating the roll out of the new national disability insurance scheme.
Coping strategies for new nurses
Empowering graduate nurses with self-coping strategies to help them adjust to the workforce is the focus of a new Flinders University research project.
Screening Aussie toddlers’ diets
A Flinders University researcher has developed a new risk assessment tool to identify Australian toddlers with poor diets.
Tapping into Flinders brain power
Neurologists from Flinders University will maximise their expertise in human brain banking under a new research venture with two of China’s top medical universities.
Flinders academic is NAIDOC Person of the Year
Associate Professor Daryle Rigney has been named Person of the Year in the South Australian NAIDOC awards.
Serval phone apps secure technology prize
The ability of Flinders research fellow Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen’s Serval software to maintain secure phone communications has won a US$10,000 award in the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention.