5 Things About...

A discussion around the pivotal moments in medical research over the last 50 years with Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC, Professor Suzanne Cory AC

and Professor Judith Whitworth AC. Hosted by journalist, Natasha Mitchell.

5 Things About… Indigenous Architecture with Mphethi Morojele.

Interviewer: Jefa Greenaway, architect and University of Melbourne lecturer.

Interviewee: Mphethi Morojele, owner and founder of MMA Design Studio.

Recorded: 18 July, 2018 at Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne.

Production: James Rafferty.

Rose Story talks to Professor Mark Jenkins, Head of the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Mark and Rose have a moving discussion about preventing bowel cancer.

Episode recorded: 13 September 2018

Interviewer: Rose Story

Audio engineering: Chris Hatzis and Arch Cuthbertson

Production: Chris Hatzis, Andi Horvath, Arch Cuthbertson, Louisa Flander, Mark Jenkins and Rose Story.

Special thanks from Rose to Andi Horvath for script editing and mentoring.

This podcast was made possible by the University of Melbourne. The Five Things About podcast is a University of Melbourne training program created by Dr Andi Horvath.

If you missed this year's Professional Staff Conference, never fear, the External Relations podcast team has you covered.

Andi and Buffy take you behind these scenes, bringing you the highlights from the keynote speakers to the stand out sessions and what the people who were there had to say. See you next year!

Not all students will be aware of how to efficiently use their university library, and yet the information they miss out on could be crucial to their degree. To give students a head start, Tanya Wilson talks to Kylie Tran and Samuel Smith from the University of Melbourne about making the most of university libraries.

You may have heard something recently about HILDA - the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. You can see the most recent results on our Unimelb news site, Pursuit. But how exactly does HILDA work? And what are the implications of such a report? Silvi Vann-Wall chats with Professor Roger Wilkins, the Melbourne Institute Deputy Director and co-report author, who gets philosophical about HILDA.

This episode was recorded on 26 July 2018.

Production by Silvi Vann-Wall.

Editing by Silvi Vann-Wall & Audio Engineering by Chris Hatzis.

Five Things About is a training podcast created by Dr Andi Horvath at the University of Melbourne.

Highlights from the 2018 Indigenous Place and Partnerships Conference held at the University of Melbourne in April 2018. Andi and Silvi gate crash the conference to bring you selections of presentations and interviews with presenters and conference participants.

More details here: https://research.unimelb.edu.au/hallmark-initiatives/home/indigenous-research-initiative/2018-conference

Interviewers: Dr Andi Horvath and Silvi Vann-Wall

Producers: Arch Cuthbertson, Dr Andi Horvath and Silvi Vann-Wall

Recorded: April 5-6, 2018

In this episode, Michelle Kelso interviewed Dr Simon Firestone about the concept of One Health – a timely conversation that coincided with the launch of the World Health Organisations 2018 Blueprint list of priority diseases and the launch of a new UOM breadth subject. Simon also shares an interesting tale concerning vodka shots in Tasmania...

For further details, please visit http://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/study/breadth/our-planet-our-health