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Health and Medicine, Science and Technology
The two of us: Elisabeth Duursma & Kristen Burriel
Kristen Burriel is a senior social work clinician and relationship therapist, working with people with mental illness. She is also completing her PhD. Her supervisor is Dr Elisabeth Duursma from the School of Education & Early Start Research. Her research interests focus on the role of fathers in the lives of young children and the impact father involvement has on child language and development.
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Science and Technology
Stefania’s journey to outer space
Could it also take the Three-Minute Thesis winner into space one day as well?
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Environment and Energy, Community, Study areas, Science and Technology
The rise of eco-anxiety
As the world continues to grapple with the tangible impacts of climate change, eco-anxiety has become a very real problem.
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Science and Technology
The race to save the corroboree frog
As bushfires raced through Kosciuszko National Park in January, researchers from the University of °µÍø½ûÇø watched in horror. Only weeks before, they had dropped more than 100 precious corroboree frogs into the area as part of their species recovery program.
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Education, Environment and Energy, Health and Medicine, International, Study areas, Science and Technology
A blueprint to change the world
The University of °µÍø½ûÇø is working to effect change on a global level, with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals providing a roadmap for creating a better world for all.
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Science and Technology
How augmented reality brought Desert Rose to life
The University of °µÍø½ûÇø’s Desert Rose took out second place in 2018’s Solar Decathlon competition in the Middle East. But without the use of augmented reality, the project might never have made it off the ground.