Deakin Matters

Dr Debra Bateman, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education, and regular expert commentator in the field of education discusses the role a school has to play in educating students for many possible futures, and how that can be achieved . . .

Research Fellow, Dr Sharon Brennan discusses ‘what determines health’; a study she has been conducting over the past 5 years that examines the social determinants of health of Geelong residents and surrounding areas.

Deakin student Vivian Winkler talks about a competition she recently took part in called the National Health Fusion Team Challenge. She was in a team with five other Deakin students, and they won this national event as ambassadors for Deakin University for the first time ever.

Broadcast Journalism student Jessica Perkins reports on the obesity epidemic, the food we love to eat and the rise of fad dieting programs

Professor Michael Berk chair is the School of Psychiatry Deakin and Harvard Professor Andrew Nuremberg discuss whether depression could be an inflammatory illness.

Melissa Graham, Senior Lecturer from the School of Health and Social Development, who will be joining us today to discuss a study that has found childless women may experience poorer health and wellbeing than the general Australian female population.

Professor Robert Cummins from the School of Psychology discusses the level of personal wellbeing in Australia and how we are all generally happy people.

Daniel Santopietro, a Deakin University Broadcast Journalism student, who reports on ovarian cancer amongst women and raising awareness of it's diagnosis.

As the fighting in Syria continues, we invited Associate Professor Mat Hardy, Lecturer on Middle Eastern Studies on the show with us to discuss another side of the violent warfare – the media. Mat’s article on The Conversation discusses the popular news casters in the Middle East, including Al Jazeera, putting forward a fairly biased view of the war in their reports.

Professor Richard Osborne discusses his work in creating a simple surgery prioritising system in hospital throughout Victoria, which has been recognised in the ‘Top Ten Research Projects of 2012’ by the Australian government.