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  • Prof Fiona Wood appointed to National Science and Technology Council

    Congratulations to Professor Fiona Wood AM who has been appointed to the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the Council providing advice to the Prime Minister and other Ministers on science and technology issues facing Australia.

    Professor Wood is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia, co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation, and has a four-year appointment on the NSTC. Professor Wood replaces Professor Ian Frazer AC on the Council, and is well placed to advise the Australian Government with her background as a burns surgeon and researcher.

     

    Read the full media statement

  • Monash Partners Healthcare Improvement and Implementation Science MOOC

    The Monash Partners Healthcare Improvement and Implementation Science massive open online course (MOOC) opens Monday November 11. This course is freely available to all staff across the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA).

    This short course has been co-designed by the Monash-Warwick Alliance, a partnership between Monash University and Warwick University, and Monash Partners especially for health professionals working in the area of healthcare management and administration.

    During the course participants will increase their understanding of complex healthcare systems, the capabilities and skills needed to mobilise new knowledge and identify processes for building ‘agency’ across the levels of the individual, the organisation and the wider system.

    The course begins on 11 November 2019 and can be access here

    Please contact Laura Robson, Monash Partners Workforce Development Coordinator, if you require any further information.

  • 2019 Fresh Science Nominations Now Open

    Are you an Early Career Researcher (ECR) and want the world to know about your discoveries? What’s the story behind your research and how can you tell it in a compelling way? Fresh Science is a national competition designed to help you craft a compelling story to tell the community and media.

     

    The program takes up-and-coming researchers with no media experience and helps you become a spokesperson for science. If selected you’ll take part in:

    • a one day media and communication training course where you’ll meet and chat with journalists from TV, newspaper and radio, including doing some practice interviews
    • a one day professional development program where you’ll met people from business and government; learn how to pitch and make a pitch; write a short profile and social media posts with the guidance of two professional science communicators
    • attend an evening event at the local pub where you get to practice presenting your results in an understandable and fun way

     

    As part of Fresh Science they will publish a short, media-ready profile on you and promote via social media channels. See previous stories

     

    If you’re an ECR currently working in Australia why not apply now?

     

    Nominations close 23:59 Wednesday 14 August 2019

    Read more about the eligibility criteria

  • 2019 Premier’s Science Awards – Shell Aboriginal STEM Student of the Year Award now open!

    Applications are now open for the inaugural Shell Aboriginal STEM University Student of the Year Award at the 2019 Premier’s Science Awards

    Applications close 10am 23 April, 2019.

    View the Flyer

    View the Applicant Information Pack

    For more information please visit the Premier’s Science Awards

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