Bowing to pressure from staff and students, the University of Queensland will hold an information session on a controversial new coal seam gas (CSG) research centre later this month. As reported in Campus Review online last week, funding links between the ...

Fiona Wood asks if ERA should be doing something more useful than just stocktaking.Did you know that more than half the world’s 7 billion people are under 30 years of age? And that 90 per cent of these youthful people ...

‘Publish or perish’ is the unofficial motto of scientific life. Get your research out there! Get citations! Get your rankings up! But it’s easier in some areas than others, as University of South Australia pain specialist Professor Lorimer Moseley has ...

With so much information available online, and changing workplace needs, universities need to take this opportunity to examine what and how they teach writes Roger Hadgraft. The first two articles in this series focused on risk management issues and the ...

Funding links between the burgeoning coal seam gas (CSG) industry and the University of Queensland have sparked protests and demands on campus that the university guard its research independence. University staff, the National Union of Students, and a coalition of ...

Australia consolidated its position as the third most productive country for high-quality primary research in the rapidly developing Asia-Pacific region, according to the Nature Publishing Index 2011 Asia-Pacific. Australia is a top performer when it comes to science output per capita ...

Changes to Australian intellectual property laws will help clear up legal ambiguities for researchers working in areas involving already patented discoveries, says the National Health and Medical Research Council. The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2012 was ...

 Research on Alzheimer’s disease by three Future Fellows at the University of Wollongong may lead to new avenues to prevent or treat the debilitating condition. The three researchers have joined forces with other scientists to discover a new function for a ...

Australian university graduates who move overseas have deprived the nation of about $500 million in unpaid HECS dues since the scheme began in 1989, new research estimates. The study by Dr Tim Higgins and HECS architect Professor Bruce Chapman, both ...

There is strong interest from Australian researchers in UK fellowships which come with a virtual guarantee of a permanent academic position.  The University of Birmingham received nearly 1,400 applications from around the world when it advertised 50 Research Fellowships with ...