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Moving towards gender equity in the built environment

Gender equity in the built environment professions – including architecture, design and construction – will come under the spotlight as more than 30 Australian and international speakers converge at the University of Melbourne this week.

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Engineering and IT

14 Nov 2019

Report exposes flaw in iVote system used in NSW election

Flaws in the iVote internet and telephone voting system used in the 2019 New South Wales election could have made it vulnerable to undetectable voter fraud, a new report has revealed.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

13 Nov 2019

Training family doctors to better support domestic violence survivors

Women who are experiencing domestic violence feel better supported, more confident and less depressed when they are counselled by trained family doctors, according to new research.

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Science and the Environments

12 Nov 2019

Breakthrough in dark matter underground lab

New photos show a breakthrough in the construction of the first underground physics laboratory in the southern hemisphere, at the Stawell Gold Mine in Victoria.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

11 Nov 2019

Australia to close the gap on Indigenous eye health by 2020

Australia is on track to close the gap for vision for Indigenous Australians by the end of next year, but this won’t be achieved without ongoing support for long-term solutions, according to a new report.

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Art, Culture and Society

8 Nov 2019

New society for open science launched

Dr Andrew Leigh MP has officially launched AIMOS (the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science), an organisation founded by academics from the University of Melbourne, Swinburne and Deakin Universities to promote the new academic field of meta-research aimed at improving scientific culture and practice in Australia and New Zealand.

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Engineering and IT

8 Nov 2019

Centre to train new generation of specialists designing personalised implant technologies

In a new evolution of personalised medicine, world-leading specialist biomedical engineers, scientists and clinicians will come together to develop individually tailored orthopaedic and maxillofacial implants, following the launch of the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies (CMIT ARC) today.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

6 Nov 2019

Access to Seymour health services improving, study finds

More Seymour residents are visiting their local GP and smoking rates have declined in the past 15 years, according to the latest Crossroads study.

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Art, Culture and Society

31 Oct 2019

Philosophers make the case for global kidney exchange program

Three bioethicists have today published an argument in The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, in favour of a global kidney exchange (GKE) program that matches donors and recipients across low and middle-income countries with pairs in high income countries.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

29 Oct 2019

Study to better understand the experience of Australians living with complex mental health issues

A new national research survey that aims to understand the life experiences of people living with severe and complex mental health issues is seeking participants.

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