The International Longevity Centre Global Alliance, a multinational consortium sharing research, policy and knowledge related to population ageing, has announced overnight that a bid for an Australian centre has been successful. The Australian bid was made up of 11 organisations […]
Researchers from the University of Newcastle have found there is no universal consensus on what constitutes an optimal diet for women before, during and after pregnancy, despite a glut of nutritional information being available. Dietitian and PhD candidate, Ellie Gresham, […]
Our paper “On the Particle Size Effect in Expanded Perlite Aluminium Syntactic Foam” has been accepted for publication in Materials and Design.
Young Australian women are fatter, fitter and more fraught today than they were in the mid-’90s, according to the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health researchers. The 17-year study, led by the University of Newcastle’s Professor Julie Byles and University […]
Check out PRCGHA’s first newsletter! Newsletter Vol 1 Spring 2014 If you wish to subscribe to PRCGHA’s quarterly newsletter, please email natalie.townsend@newcastle.edu.au
TED Talk, October 2014 When someone asks you where you’re from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of “multi-local” people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, […]
The Priority Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing focuses on individual health care and societal factors that affect the health of men and women across the life course. The centre creates and capitalises on significant data assets to provide […]
This video makes me wonder where extreme music will be in 10 years. Wherever that is, you will find me!
The mind genuinely boggles at the thought of how much data exists on each and everyone of us, and how much this data is growing. The explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) (see for example this report and the more recent Mckinsey […]
Always enjoyed Peter Walla’s work, really opens the mind up to how cross-disciplinary approaches can bring interesting applications. Brilliant man, brilliant work: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0026782#pone-0026782-g004 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/253238905_Broadening_the_range_of_applications_of_eye-tracking_in_business_research/file/3deec51f725b213209.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033014/