The Governor is an inspiring pioneer and role model for women in leadership through her judicial appointments and in her numerous community roles in service of others. “I am proud to receive an Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University," The …
Female genitalia are conspicuously overlooked in comparison to their male counterparts, limiting academic understanding of sexual reproduction across vertebrates like snakes and lizards. Co-author Dr Jenna Crowe-Riddell, Postdoctoral Researcher in …
These La Trobe students are among the 150 Australian recipients awarded for 2023, announced at a ceremony held in Canberra last week, representing the largest cohort of scholars since the NCP Scholarship initiative began in 2014. The ceremony was presided …
La Trobe University’s Professor Brian Abbey, Deputy Director of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) and Professor of Physics, has jointly won the award with collaborator Associate Professor Belinda Parker of the Peter MacCallum Cancer …
The full list of award recipients are as follows: Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards Excellence in Research - Early Career Awardee: Dr Pamali Fonseka, (School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment) Citation: Dr Fonseka is developing a novel …
La Trobe University researchers surveyed 1016 midwives and 38 managers – representing 20 per cent of the state’s midwifery workforce and more than 50 per cent of managers across the state. The study revealed 27 per cent of midwives plan to leave the …
This is very close to the target set in the current National HIV Strategy of 75 per cent of people living with HIV reporting good quality of life by 2022. HIV Futures is a periodic national survey of people living with HIV run by the Australian Research …
Associate Professor Bish is currently Deputy Dean of the La Trobe Rural Health School – the largest rural health school in Australia – and has worked as a Registered Nurse in various clinical and managerial appointments in rural, regional, and metropolitan …
Professor Eslava’s pioneering work uses ethnographic, historical and socio-legal approaches to charting the global legal, political and economic order. Professor Fiona Kelly, Dean of the La Trobe Law School, said there is enormous excitement ahead of …
Drawing on La Trobe research undertaken in 2019, the report showed 90.9 per cent of young people with a disability reported high or very high levels of psychological distress in the four weeks before the survey – compared to 70.6 per cent of those without …
The Baggarrook Yurrongi program, which revealed that maternity care for First Nations mothers and babies can be improved through access to culturally safe continuity of midwifery care, won the Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement. The project was …
November is ‘Turtle Month’ and the 1millionturtles project has launched a training package which teaches community members how to find and protect turtle nests so that eggs can hatch out safely. The project is helping to save turtles across Australia; in …
Although there is known to be a very small population in South Australia, the bird had not been seen or heard in Victoria for around 40 years. The discovery was made in the Parks Victoria managed Big Desert Wilderness Park, north of Nhill, as part of an 81 …
The achievement places La Trobe in the top three per cent of MBA programs in the world, recognising its focus on sustainability across course content and faculty research, and creating learning environments where students can explore environmental, social …
Professor Dissanayake, Founding Director of the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, is one of only 34 new Fellows elected to ASSA in 2022, bringing together over 700 of Australia’s leading researchers and professionals across the social science …
The results are published today in The Australian’s Research Magazine. Six La Trobe researchers have been acknowledged as top researchers in their fields, in recognition of the significance, quality and impact of their research across Health and Medical …
During a five-day intensive, students from a range of disciplines will come together for the ‘Rural Health Innovation Sprint’, bringing diverse perspectives to the issue of how to empower young people to improve mental health. Lecturer at the La Trobe …
Announced today, Friday 4 November, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S) will help to establish a long-term human presence in space, while also developing innovations on Earth. The Australian government is …
Almost one third of advertised job vacancies are in regional Australia, according to recent National Skills Commission (NSC) data. The data shows 309,000 job advertisements nationally of which 91,000 are in the regions.* La Trobe Vice-Chancellor Professor …
The Nexus Program – which mentors and prepares selected candidates to teach in socio-economically challenged, culturally diverse and hard-to-staff schools – won the ‘Employability’ category in this year’s awards. Dean of La Trobe’s School of Education, …
