What makes for great university teaching?

When Professor Iain Hay, himself a winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for University Teaching, decided to investigate what constitutes the best in university teaching, he went to the source.

Dutch support for disaster zone phone software

Software developed by Flinders University’s Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen which enables mobile phones to communicate during a disaster will be freely available to the public by the end of the year thanks to the support of the Dutch NLnet Foundation.

Flinders opposes cuts to medical research funding

It would take a decade to recover the lost research capability of Australian universities if the Federal Government was to cut $400 million in medical research funding, according to Flinders University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Barber.

A window into the weird and wonderful

The web-making strategies of spiders, the sexual proclivities of squid, the effects of human tourism on bottle-nosed dolphins and the fight-back by the iconic Darwin’s finch against a voracious parasite are among the phenomena that will be described at a national conference on animal behaviour Flinders University from April 11 to 13.