Australia’s oldest university has proved its prestige yet again, being the leading institution in NSW for first-preference applications from students looking to enter undergraduate degrees this year. However, hot on the heels of the University of Sydney was the University of Technology ...
More »Latest ARC research grants
Funding is the lifeblood of academic research and the Australian Research Council (ARC) late last week announced the Linkage Project grants, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards and the Future Fellowship grants. Monash University and the University of Melbourne were awarded ...
More »Australian climate change initiatives stalling amid growing health fears: Report
A new report is calling for urgent action to tackle the risks to human health posed by climate change. The report, written by Australian researchers and partner institutions of the 2019 MJA–Lancet Countdown report, was published today in the Medical Journal ...
More »It’s all in the walk: Researchers identify hope for dementia patients
Researchers at Monash University have discovered a potential link between the way individuals walk and their likelihood of developing dementia. To put it more scientifically, the researchers were investigating “whether variability from one step to the next during walking, and ...
More »Australia’s first student-built, driverless car
It’s taken three years to make and Australia’s first student-built, fully autonomous race car – the M19-D – displayed its capabilities on Open Day at Monash University’s Clayton campus. Showcasing the latest in driverless automotive technology, including “complex environment perception ...
More »‘No evidence-based reason to use them’ concludes new trigger warning study
A new paper has added to a growing body of research suggesting trigger warnings have little to no benefit for those they’re meant to help. Published as a pre-print version online, the study found that trigger warnings could even have ...
More »The catch 22 of university content warnings
Where trigger and content warnings are becoming increasingly institutionalised in the United States, they've been slow to catch hold in Australia (despite what conservative opinion pieces may suggest). Monash was the first university to introduce a policy in 2017, and ...
More »Mark my words: research finds uni students prefer digital feedback
Comments scrawled manually? Face-to-face dialogue? Or digital recordings? In a new Monash University study, thousands of Australian university students have voted digital as their preferred feedback mode. The study asked over 4,500 students from two universities to rate the level ...
More »Monash exhibits the humblest of objects
Could February be the month of lunchboxes? Last week, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and poorer Melbourne suburbs. While, by comparing Oreos packed in Broadmeadows to carrot sticks lovingly placed in Brighton, it invited food-shaming, ...
More »Breakfast myth could be toast
‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.’ It’s one of the most commons pieces of nutritional advice people shill out unprovoked, but they might be leading dieters astray. A new review, published in the BMJ, has revealed daily ...
More »