UM professor’s book listed among top ten in 2021
The Chinese version of Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History, written by Prof Yang Bin in the University of Macau (UM) Department of History and published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China)...
MRFF funding to advance research into blood cancer and neurological conditions in children
The Commonwealth Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has invested close to $8 million to advance neurological and cancer research led by Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
What’s so super about superfoods?
Everyone has heard of the good old saying: ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’.
Health Research Council funding for gonorrhoea, and self-harm research
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is funding two University of Waikato research projects to deal with stigmatised disease and disorders that predominantly impact young people...
Global economic scholars tackle AI, climate change and Asia
Artificial intelligence, climate change and developments in Asia are among the key topics economists will discuss at this year’s Singapore Economic Review Conference.
UC research targets 8-year delay in endometriosis diagnosis
A new Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) study has found the average delay from symptom onset to confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis is more than eight years in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Predicting when epileptic seizures will happen
Scientists at the CHUM Research Centre work towards forecasting or at least better detecting when a person with epilepsy will have an attack, thanks to an implantable microchip.
Blue/Green Tech Lab opens in Tauranga
Tech week – New Zealand’s festival of technology and innovation – kicked off in Tauranga last night with the opening of a brand new aquaculture and horticulture collaboration, University of Waikato’s Blue/Green Tech Lab.
£10 million funding award for new Centre for Care
Kent is one of five universities collaborating on the launch of a new ‘Centre for Care’ to address the urgent need for accessible research and evidence on social care.
Two-thirds of Australia has lost its unique birdlife
Researchers have revealed that threatened birds have disappeared from almost 70 per cent of Australia since European colonisation.
