SA swansong for novelist
Prize-winning novelist Gillian Mears bade a poignant farewell to South Australia at a session with Flinders creative writing students.
Corporate
Flinders and UCL in new course deal
A new agreement between Flinders University and University College London will bring public policy closer to South Australia’s burgeoning resources and energy boom.
Groundwater expertise for Laos
Visiting water scientists from Laos have added to their expertise by undertaking an Australian Groundwater School short course.
Disadvantaged left behind in digital age
As more health services go online in a bid to widen their reach, marginalised groups including the unemployed, elderly, disabled and educationally disadvantaged risk being left behind.
Wheat bacteria may ward off plant disease
A Flinders University researcher is digging deep to discover how certain bacterial strains found in wheat can stimulate a plant’s natural defence fighting mechanisms.
Shedding new light on life with poor sight
Flinders University researchers are trying to determine exactly how eye disease affects quality of life in a bid to target and improve treatments.
Tackling type 1 diabetes
A curative treatment for type 1 diabetes will come under the microscope as part of a new study by researchers from Flinders University.
Good deeds flow from gap year adventure
Nikki Lovell made the decision to volunteer in the small Ugandan village of Namwenda, unaware it would change her life – and hundreds of others – forever.
Tracing arsenic threat to groundwater
Ilka Wallis, a PhD candidate in Flinders University’s School of the Environment, is investigating how arsenic may leach into underground water.