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A first-ever national study to be launched today will investigate whether there has been a generational change in brain health, including an increase in the incidence of dementia, following major increases in the number of Australians aged 65 and over. Researchers at UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) are calling for 1500 Sydney-based … Continued
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The slums in the global south hold the key to building circular cities in other developing countries, according to Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. Slums, a term used to describe informal settlements within cities with mostly insecure land tenure, and inadequate access to safe water, sanitation and housing, are often perceived to carry significant societal, … Continued
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Togetherness Index falls for third year running from a score of 59 in 2020 to 56 in September 2023 Only 25 per cent think Australia is united, with 44 per cent believing we are more divided than 12 months ago. More than two fifths of Australians feel the country is more divided than a … Continued
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sydney, Australia (14 September 2023): IDE Group, an entrepreneurial commercialisation company that develops medical products and builds market-leading medtech businesses, is thrilled to announce Restorabite and Plio Surgical as the winners of the highly-anticipated Building Better Futures for Health (BBFH) Challenge 2023. The awards ceremony, held at the iconic Powerhouse Museum on … Continued
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MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 September, 2023 ‘Until we are all equal’: Plan International Australia releases Gender Compass, a first-of-its-kind study revealing what ordinary Australians really think about gender equality Plan International Australia today released a groundbreaking new piece of research, Gender Compass, revealing what ordinary Australians really think about gender … Continued
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The Behavioural Roadmap to Circular Consumption, developed by Monash University’s BehaviourWorks Australia, identifies where policy-makers and industry can intervene in the production – consumption cycle to create change, reduce Australia’s material footprint and encourage an efficient use of limited resources as the most effective way to confront the ongoing waste crisis. Different from a … Continued
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A multi-national research team from Indonesia, Australia, and the United States, are hunting to find the home of one of the world’s most endangered fish, the Clown Wedgefish, a fish so elusive that it has only ever been recorded at fish markets. Researchers from Charles Darwin University (CDU), the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), and … Continued
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Charles Darwin University (CDU) has made significant progress in the Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU), improving upon its ranking from last year. In the latest 2023 rankings, CDU placed in the top 700 (601-700) universities in the world improving upon its 2022 ranking of 801-900. The ARWU annually presents the ranking of the … Continued
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Northern Territory mothers living in remote or rural areas often make decisions about the need for antibiotics for their children out of fear or based on the advice of their personal network a new study by Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers has found. Lead author and CDU PhD student Stephanie Marsh has explored the factors … Continued
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Researchers at Charles Darwin University (CDU) will soon be on the frontline of protecting Northern Australia against potentially severe animal blood borne diseases with a new project looking into the biting midges, an insect of concern for its potential to carry disease that could damage the Australian livestock industry. Researchers at CDU’s Research Institute … Continued
