Aged care workforce defies employment trend

A study of the aged care workforce by the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) at Flinders University has found that community-based workers enjoy higher job satisfaction than workers in residential facilities.

It’s not your usual office job

Charlie Huveneers says diving with sharks is never boring. It’s a masterful understatement from the newly appointed shark ecologist at the Port Lincoln-based Lincoln Marine Science Centre.

Racism major obstacle to Indigenous wellbeing

The goal of closing the gap in health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians is unlikely to be met unless racism is tackled, according to new Flinders University research.

Rural health education hits the road

Health professionals and students in regional South Australia will have clinical training delivered to their door with the launch today of Flinders University Rural Clinical School’s (FURCS) SimVan.

Shoe phone offers medical device potential

Maxwell Smart, the bumbling comic spy in the 1960s television series Get Smart, frequently used his ‘shoe phone’ to report his latest predicament to The Chief at CONTROL. Now a Flinders University computer scientist has combined the latest telecommunications components to produce the real thing.