Deakin Matters

Climate change: Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Technology Research and Innovation at Deakin, Xavier Conlan spoke to us about a recent symposium on climate change.

Cure for depression sufferers: Dr Arjeet Singh has recently presented his findings towards finding a cure for depression sufferers at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference in Darwin.

‘Consumer Behaviour, Women and shopping’ is a new book co-authored by Stella Minhan, a senior lecturer at Deakin who specialises in the areas of Retail, international business and entrepreneurship.

Helen Skouteris, who is an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology at Deakin University will talk this morning about her recent study that looks into why 50 per cent of Australian woman of child bearing age are overweight or obese and the risks associated with this concerning rise.

Four year old artist sells in New York. Dr Deborah Walker, a Deakin lecturer of communication and creative arts specialises in the areas of contemporary art, art galleries and tertiary art schools. She will discuss with us this morning a recent article that has bought attention to many, as a four year old Australian girl has sold some of her paintings at very substantial prices.

Belinda Trupkovic is a Deakin Alumni who is currently working at Barwon Health as a nutritionist.

Smashed: New book on drunken behaviour in society. Associate Professor Chris Hickey and also the Deputy Head in the School of Education at Deakin University has recently co authored together with other researchers a new book called Smashed. The book is based on research regarding the issues of drunken behaviour in our society.

Happiness of our communities: Dr Cahit Guven is a Lecturer in Economics at Deakin. This morning Cahit will discuss with us his research study that looks into the happiness of our communities and discuss the findings developed and what this means.

‘Commonwealth Health Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Health and Medical Research’ Dr Tania de Koning-Ward is from the Deakin University’s Molecular Medicine Research Facility. Tania has recently received this award, and she will discuss what this award means to her and the work that went into this high achievement.

Dr Yann Gilbert is based in Geelong as a Principal Investigator at Deakin School of Medicine. Dr Gilbert’s area of expertise is the use of Zebrafish as a vertebrate model to study metabolic disorders: obesity and diabetes now among them. Dr Gilbert is here to discuss some of the findings with us.