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.
Hard Labor
Mike Rann, Professorial Fellow at Flinders, says political history suggests that too much should not be read into the result of the Queensland elections.
Bid to fix a hole in our justice system
A Flinders law academic says limitations that restrict the right to fair trial potentially leave unfairly convicted people unable to contest miscarriages of justice.
Support for Indigenous drug and alcohol workers
Indigenous alcohol and drug workers are enduring lower pay, poorer job security and higher family pressures than their non-Indigenous counterparts while working in extremely challenging environments, according to researchers based at Flinders.