Deakin Matters

Dr Margaret Kumar is a Language & Learning Advisor in Deakin's Division of Student Life, and she talks about a book she has co-edited on the importance of names in teaching.

Prof. Svetha Venkatesh, Chair in Complex Pattern Analysis, Research Leader (TOBY Playpad) research leader behind the TOBY playpad for Autistic therapy, discusses the revolutionary iPad app and it’s functions.

Dr Sharon Brennan is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the the School of Medicine at Deakin and here she discusses her research into mortality rates after surgery of Canadian First Nation peoples.

Dr Chris Moore is a lecturer in Media and Communication at Deakin and he discusses the emerging celebrity of gamers and games as a popular media format.

Dr Patrick Stokes, Lecturer in philosophy at Deakin discusses the the 2Day FM prank call, it's aftermath, the moral responsibility and the cult of celebrity.

Professor Damian Kingsbury, Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights at Deakin and here he discusses issues in Middle East; namely the state of play in Egypt as well Palestine and Israel.

Dr. Matthew Dunn, a Deakin public health expert, is currently in the process of beginning a new study into the impact of legal alternatives to illegal drugs.

Dr. Alison Carver, a Deakin research fellow who through the Deakin Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, funded by VicHealth, studied 430 primary and 258 secondary students, along with their parents and found parents prefer to drive their children around rather than letting them walk or ride.

Professor P. David Marshall is the Chair of New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies is a keynote speaker at the Celebrity Studies Conference and explains the power of celebrity and it's relationship to the media.

Professor Liz Eckermann from the School of History Heritage and Society was awarded a research grant from AusAid worth $30,000 to bring a Laotian medical researcher to Australia for 3 months mentoring in research and evaluation methods for maternal health. At the moment her research interest involves working with Lao researchers to unpack the reality behind a project called ‘behind the smile’.