Flinders celebrates 50 years of excellence in research and teaching
As Flinders enters its 50th year, it’s an opportunity to not just celebrate our rich history but also to assess our strengths and how we can build on them into the future.
Research
Action needed to relieve job stress: academic
A Flinders University business academic has backed a bid by South Australia’s Premier Jay Weatherill to raise GST as one way to relieve economic problems looming in 2016.
Give less and get a lot more from Christmas
Excessive consumption can make you sad, so keep things simple and celebrate the season in style, says Associate Professor Ian Ravenscroft.
A time for caring – for yourself too
Christmas can be a time when we also take good care of our own physical and mental wellbeing, says Flinders psychologist Dr Anthony Venning.
Nano connects with US renewable energy project
A major renewable energy and water management project in California will build on a collaboration between Infratech Industries and Flinders nanotechnology.
Taking a close look at the judiciary
Comprehensive research into the human elements of judicial behaviour will step up in 2016 with further exchanges with a leading US research and policy institute.
Reducing heatwave and other summer risks
As temperatures head over 40C, the need to closely monitor vulnerable younger and older people with health issues is high – particularly with the increased risk of bushfires and interruption to critical infrastructure.
Egg unboiler spins into top science stories of 2015
When Flinders University’s Professor Colin Raston unboiled an egg earlier this year with his ‘Vortex Fluidic Device’, in a feat previously considered impossible by science, he made TV screens and front pages all over the world.
Future Fellow gets to grips with groundwater
Freshwater resources beneath the ocean that may play a major role in the future water supply will be part of the focus of a Future Fellowship awarded to Professor Adrian Werner.