Five projects find new ways to learn

Three team and two individual staff projects that propose novel ways to engage students and improve learning have received Flinders University’s annual Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants of between $6000 and $12,000.

Funding boost for Flinders health research

Intensive care specialist Dr Shailesh Bihari has just won a $109,358 funding boost from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to find a way to improve survival rates for patients with acute lung injury, under a new PhD project at Flinders University.

Honorary doctorates awarded at graduation

Flinders University will mark the contributions of two remarkable South Australians to Flinders and the Australian community with the award of honorary doctorates to Professor Faith Trent and Uncle Lewis O’Brien at its December graduations.

Antique honour for Celtic scholar

Flinders University’s Emeritus Professor Vincent Megaw has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on the Celts.

Abortion on the rise for women over 30

Rising abortion rates for women in their 30s and 40s in Adelaide’s southern suburbs has sparked a new awareness campaign led by Flinders University. The Southern […]

Lessons learned from the trauma of autism

For Flinders lecturer in education Leigh Burrows, one of the most complex and intractable cases of child behaviour management in her professional life has since become a source of inspiration, a PhD thesis and, most recently, a book.