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    Borrowing from Nature: Controlling adhesion


    Dr Shannon Notley's presentation discusses the process of adhesion, where there are many ways in which two surfaces may be joined together. Shannon also talks about how many technologies for promoting strong and reversible adhesion are derived from natural systems.

    Presenter:
    Dr Shannon Notley
    Date:
    26 October 2012
    Running time:
    14 mins
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    Cicada Wings as Bacteria Killers


    Presenter:
    Prof Russell Crawford
    Date:
    26 October 2012
    Running time:
    17 mins 31 secs
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    eTherapy: A paradigm shift in the delivery of health care


    Dr Jo Abbott discusses the use of electronic technology in health care, in particular internet-based interventions. Dr Abbott talks about the benefits of delivering health care services online and evidence for the effectiveness of online interventions.

    Presenter:
    Dr Jo Abbott
    Date:
    28 September 2012
    Running time:
    10 mins 42 secs
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    The Geelong Project


    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof David Mackenzie
    Date:
    28 September 2012
    Running time:
    15 min 27 secs
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    Why 2012 is the 'right place, right time' for citizen journalism in Australia


    Associate Professor John Cokley researches new product development in journalism and highlights the potential growth for new products and increased productivity.

    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof John Cokley
    Date:
    28 September 2012
    Running time:
    11 mins 13 secs
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    From smart meters to smart energy management systems


    Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk talks about the emergence of smart grids together with smart meters, and how ubiquitous information and communication technologies promise new financial and environmental efficiencies in the energy market and the overall economy.

    Presenter:
    Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk
    Date:
    31 August 2012
    Running time:
    17 mins 01 secs
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    Exploring Pathways to Low Carbon Living in Cities


    Prof Peter Newton talks about how to mitigate climate changes and how it requires a combined transition in energy technology, urban design and behaviour change in relation to consumption.

    Presenter:
    Prof Peter Newton
    Date:
    31 August 2012
    Running time:
    16 mins 28 secs
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    Sudanese-Australians' experiences in journalism training


    Media representations affect societal views regarding refugees. Sudanese refugees have been represented negatively in the Australian media.

    This presentation discusses findings of the AuSud media project, an ARC Linkage funded project that aims to influence media discourses around the Sudanese.

    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof Karen Farquharson
    Date:
    27 July 2012
    Running time:
    10 mins 14 secs
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    Ending the scourge of asylum seeker detention


    Professor Linda Briskman outlines why detention of asylum seekers should be abolished.

    Presenter:
    Prof Linda Briskman
    Date:
    27 July 2012
    Running time:
    11 mins 32 secs
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    Refugee settlement: A gift that can never be repaid?


    Is the key to untangling the asylum seeker policy knot increasing humanitarian migrants and Prof Sandy Gifford discusses the evidence and refugee migrants have to say about their settlement experiences?

    Presenter:
    Prof Sandy Gifford
    Date:
    27 July 2012
    Running time:
    11 mins 09 secs
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    Botanicals for brains: bench to bedside


    Professor Andrew Scholey uses lemon balm as a case study to examine effects of herbal extracts on behaviour.

    Presenter:
    Prof Andrew Scholey
    Date:
    1 June 2012
    Running time:
    12 mins 51 secs
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    GMP and Regulatory Expectations in Drug Development


    Louise White provides an overview of the regulatory pathway to the commercialisation of drug products and outlines a framework for development groups.

    Louise outlines an introduction to current expectations for a more scientific and risk-based approach to development and improvement across the drug product lifecycle.

    Presenter:
    Ms Louise White
    Date:
    1 June 2012
    Running time:
    11 mins 55 secs
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    Carnival Mirrors: Sports & Digital Games


    The sports digital game is an artefact that aspires towards, and indeed markets itself as, a completely accurate rendition of sport-as-played.

    Yet what these products instead present, and re-present, is the sport-as-mediated, and further, the sport-as-spectacle.

    Though such games position themselves as 'mirrors' help up to the sporting world, they are revealed instead as carnival mirrors, distorting and exaggerating the image to not answer the question "is it true?" but instead "will it sell?"

    Presenter:
    Dr Steven Conway
    Date:
    27 April 2012
    Running time:
    7 mins 39 secs
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    Masculinity, Social Networks and Club Cultures in the AFL


    AFL players' attitudes towards women were in the recent past problematised, as noted by a number of allegations of sexual assault.
    Dr Dean Lusher's research examines social networks within teams, highlighting differing club cultures related to masculinity.

    Presenter:
    Dr Dean Lusher
    Date:
    27 April 2012
    Running time:
    10 mins 17 secs
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    Athletes, Decision-Making & Disreputable Conduct


    Dr Jeff Pfeiffer provides a review of current research on forensic and sport psychology.

    Presenter:
    Dr Jeff Pfeifer
    Date:
    27 April 2012
    Running time:
    9 mins 24 secs
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    Assisted reproductive technologies


    Presenter:
    Dr Deb Dempsey
    Date:
    28 October 2011
    Running time:
    10 mins 39 secs
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    Harnessing the crowd for social investment


    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof Greg Murray
    Date:
    28 October 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 35 secs
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    Water Governance: The need for Legislative and Institutional Change


    Presenter:
    Ben Rankin
    Date:
    30 September 2011
    Running time:
    12 mins 16 secs
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    The New Water Paradigm and Its Implications


    Associate Professor Arran Gare outlines the new water paradigm and its implications for water management in Australia.

    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof Arran Gare
    Date:
    30 September 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 27 secs
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    Maintaining water quality in an environment of ever changing water quantity


    Presenter:
    Prof Ian Harding
    Date:
    30 September 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 06 secs
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    Internet uses, e-commerce and retail


    This presentation discusses the ongoing controversy in Australia over online retail, considers how the lack of an official measure of online retail is hampering debate and analyses recent World Internet Project data to investigate the state of online retail in Australia

    Presenter:
    Scott Ewing
    Date:
    26 August 2011
    Running time:
    9 mins 50 secs
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    The News Of The World Scandal and what it might mean fo journalism


    Presenter:
    Margaret Simons
    Date:
    29 July 2011
    Running time:
    12 mins 06 secs
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    Philosopher's take on truth and lies


    Presenter:
    Dr Paul Healy
    Date:
    29 July 2011
    Running time:
    12 mins 06 secs
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    e-Therapy


    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof David Austin
    Date:
    24 June 2011
    Running time:
    10 mins 35 secs
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    Knowledge of matter, molecules and their interactions


    Presenter:
    Prof Feng Wang
    Date:
    27 May 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 21 secs
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    Novel approaches to cognitive enhancement


    Presenter:
    Prof Andrew Scholey
    Date:
    27 May 2011
    Running time:
    13 mins 18 secs
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    Sustainablity, germs and childcare providing data to enhance knowledge


    Presenter:
    Louise Dunn
    Date:
    27 May 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 34 secs
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    YouComm News


    Presenter:
    Prof Julian Thomas
    Date:
    29 April 2011
    Running time:
    10 mins 45 secs
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    YWX, National Youth Commission


    Presenter:
    Assoc Prof David Mackenzie
    Date:
    29 April 2011
    Running time:
    11 mins 08 secs
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    Sustainability


    Presenters:
    Prof Ian Harding
    Dr Leonie Pearson
    Dr Peter Newton
    Date:
    27 August 2010
    Running time:
    36 mins 46 secs
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    Vulnerable Communities


    Presenters:
    Dr Angela Spinney
    Dr Anna Thomas
    Assoc Prof David Mackenzie
    Date:
    30 July 2010
    Running time:
    20 mins 42 secs
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    Journalism


    Presenters:
    Dr Diana Bossi
    Dr Andrew Dodd
    Dr Meg Simons
    Date:
    30 July 2010
    Running time:
    21 mins 34 secs
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    Vaccines


    Presenters:
    Accos Prof Enzo Palombo
    Dr Lara Grollo
    Prof Michael Gilding
    Date:
    30 April 2010
    Running time:
    34 mins 30 secs
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Research Profiles

View our videos to gain an insight into the Faculty's research and available facilities.
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    World-leading brain research


    With the recent purchase of a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine from Siemens, and Victoria's first magnetoencephalograph (MEG) machine from Elekta, Swinburne researchers are now well-equipped to produce world-leading brain research.

    Presenter:
    Prof Susan Rossell
    Date:
    25 June 2012
    Running time:
    3 mins 33 secs
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    Cutting-edge cognitive research


    Director of the Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Professor Andrew Scholey, discusses world-leading research in the areas of drugs, herbs, natural substances and behaviour/brain function, being conducted in the new labs in Swinburne's Advanced Technology Centre.

    Presenter:
    Prof Andrew Scholey
    Date:
    25 June 2012
    Running time:
    2 mins 42 secs
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    Research Focus: The Swinburne Institute for Social Research


    Professor Newton discusses current research being conducted at The Swinburne Institute for Social Research that focuses on the sustainability of built environments.

    Presenter:
    Prof Peter Newton
    Date:
    25 June 2012
    Running time:
    4 mins 15 secs
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    Psychophysiology - PhD Research at Swinburne


    Ph.D student Natalie Michael discusses her experiences as a Swinburne student, her research into Psychophysiology and its application to solve real world problems.

    Presenter:
    Natalie Michael - PhD student
    Date:
    25 June 2012
    Running time:
    3 mins 54 secs
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