Inspiring South Australia has announced that Expressions of Interest are being sought for the 2018 South Australian Regional Science-Arts Collaboration Grants program.

Expressions of Interest are sought from eligible applicants for special funding of up to $10,000 for the development and production of a science communication project that links at least two groups or organisations, including at least one identifying as 'science' and one as 'arts'.

The aim is to tell a locally relevant science-related story to the wider community. This may take the form of a performance or series of performances, an exhibition, a showing, a screening or an installation. It must be developed during 2018/19 and performed during 2018 and/or early 2019.

Information and details are now online at Inspiring South Australia.

Expressions of Interest are due 3 August 2018. The Flinders internal closing date is 20 July 2018. For application advice and assistance, please contact Mary Lyons, Senior Research Grants Officer (IGII).

Capstone Editing have a number of grants available for female academics and postgraduate coursework students. These opportunities will close on 30 July 2018.

Capstone Editing’s grants and scholarships aim to invest in the future of academia and reward academic excellence, while easing both the financial burden of study for students and the inequities experienced by academic women in the workplace.

The Flinders internal closing date for the Carer's Travel Grant for Academic Women and for the Early Career Academic Research Grant for Women is 16 July 2018. Application support and advice for these two grants is available from Mary Lyons, Senior Research Grants Officer, Research Development and Support.

Carer’s Travel Grant for Academic Women

A grant to provide financial support for academic women who face additional childcare costs when travelling to conduct research or present a paper at a conference. The grant provides up to A$3,000 for one academic per year who is the primary carer of at least one child under five years old (or the primary carer of an older child if you are a single parent or in the case of children with disabilities.)

The grant can be used in whatever way is best for your personal circumstances, for example, to cover the cost of your child or children and a companion to travel with you or to cover the cost of childcare while you are away at a conference or on a research field trip. For more information, visit the Capstone Editing website.

Early Career Academic Research Grant for Women

A grant to provide financial support for female early career academics in recognition of the additional barriers they face in achieving academic success and advancing their careers. The grant provides up to A$5,000 for one academic per year to assist with the costs associated with a research project of her choosing leading towards a publication.

The grant can be used to cover any costs related to the research project, such as conducting a field trip; purchasing books, software or equipment; hiring a translator; travel to learn new techniques in a lab interstate or overseas; small lab equipment; key reagents to complete a project; performing surveys or interviews; and academic editing, such as for journal articles, manuscripts and conference papers. The grant can also be used to cover expenses that most university funding does not cover, such as those related to the need of academic women to secure paid child care to assist them to meet their work responsibilities and research goals, due to the continued prevalence of traditional gender roles around caring in the home. For more information visit the Capstone Editing website.

Laptop Grant for Postgraduate Coursework Students

A grant aimed at overcoming economic barriers to academic success by providing students with the computer equipment necessary to excel in their studies. The grant provides one student per year with A$3,000 (tax free) to use to purchase a computer or laptop and software. Owning a suitable computer (and all the necessary software) is crucial to academic success and this grant is aimed at students who do not currently own one. For more information visit the Capstone Editing website.

Conference Travel Grant for Postgraduate Research Students

A grant to fund postgraduate students to attend important domestic or international conferences of benefit to their research. The grant

The purpose of attending the conference should be to assist with the student’s research or professional development. The student does not necessarily have to be presenting a paper or poster at the conference to be eligible to apply for the grant, though it is preferred.

The grant can be used for flights, accommodation and conference registration up to a total of A$3,000. It is expected that a student attending a conference internationally may use all the available funds, whereas a student attending a conference domestically will use only part. Students will need to include an itinerary, budget and letter of support from their supervisor in their application. For more information visit the Capstone Editing website.

The Lung Foundation have applications open for new Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) awards, made possible by a generous donation from the Greenwood Family. The awards support research to increase understanding of the disease and achieve better outcomes for those affected. 

Applications close 3 August 2018. The Flinders internal closing date is 20 July 2018. For advice and information, please contact Gareth Rees, Senior Research Grants Officer (NHMRC and Health).

Grant-in-Aid

The Lung Foundation Australia Eleanor Greenwood Memorial Grant-in-Aid for Interstitial Lung Disease Research (ILD) 2018/19, offers funds of $10,000 to any individual health professional or scientist, to undertake and publish a specific research project on ILD. The research can relate to any aspect of ILD including the molecular basis of the disease, its diagnosis and treatment, improved management and care and the evaluation of palliative strategies in the advance disease setting. 

Travel Grants

Applications are also open for three travel grants, valued up to $3,000 each, to attend the International Colloquium on Lung and Airway Fibrosis (ICLAF) 2018. The Lung Foundation Australia/Eleanor Greenwood Memorial ILD Travel Grants 2018 are available to health professionals or researchers in Australia whose work is focused on improving the understanding of ILD.

Further information and how to apply, please see the Lung Foundation website.

Cure Cancer Australia will be visiting Flinders to inform about their single investigator grants for ECRs working in any area of cancer research.

Kate Christian, Research Alumni Program Manager for Cure Cancer Australia will present an information session about these grants, specifically designed as "start up" grants for ECRs working in any area of cancer research. The information session will be on Thursday, 9 August 2018 from 2 PM - 3 PM in the Function Room, Ground Floor, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FMC). Please rsvp for the information session via ienrol.

These grants are offered through Cancer Australia's Priority driven Cancer Research Scheme (PdCCRS), for up to $100,000 per annum.

• 1 year funding for researchers up to 3 years post doctoral
• 2 year funding for researchers 4-6 years post doctoral

Higher Degree Researchers, Early Career Researchers (ECRs) working in cancer research, and supervisors of ECRs working in cancer research are encouraged to attend.

Information on the Cure Cancer grant application process is available at their website.

Suicide Prevention Australia is offering scholarships to assist candidates complete a higher degree by research.

The aim of the scholarship program is to support outstanding graduates early in their research career to be trained to conduct research that is relevant to all aspects of suicide prevention, is internationally competitive and will assist in developing a capacity for original independent research within Australia.

Applicants seeking funding should address one of the following priority areas:

1. What works to prevent suicide and suicidal behaviour? For whom? Why? Studies of indicated, selective and universal interventions will be considered, with particular emphasis being given to studies of indicated interventions. Studies employing any type of research design will be considered, providing they can yield meaningful data on effectiveness and, where possible, cost-effectiveness.
2. What factors are protective against suicide? What are the mechanisms by which these protective factors operate? How might we bolster these protective factors for individuals in different communities and/or from different target groups and/or social and/or cultural backgrounds? Studies employing any type of research design will be considered, providing they can yield meaningful data on protective factors and their promotion.

There will be up to six scholarships offered during 2018. Each scholarship is valued at a maximum of $105,000 over three years, paid according to a schedule negotiated with each successful candidate. Three scholarships will be funded directly through the Suicide Prevention Research Fund. Up to a further three scholarships will be supported by SPA funding partners.

Applicants must already be accepted by a university as a candidate for a higher degree by research. PhD candidates working in, or alongside, community based organisations are especially encouraged to apply and SPA will explore flexible funding options to assist in the completion of the degree for such candidates.

Applications close 6 August 2018. Further information can be sought on the Suicide Prevention Australia website.

Professor Robert Saint, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) is inviting nominations for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Early Career Researchers.

The Awards recognise the outstanding contributions to the University of individual Early Career Researchers, embarking on their research career. These awards will recognise, reward and encourage excellence in research across all Colleges.

Up to ten awards can be made each year. Each award is valued at $2,500, and should fund opportunities to broaden the recipient's networks and enhance their standing and recognition as a staff member of Flinders University.

Details together with the nomination form are available at the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Early Career Researchers webpage.

Nominations should be forwarded to dvc-research@flinders.edu.au or to marie.reitano@flinders.edu.au by the close of business Friday, 31 August 2018. The nomination form must bear the signature of the nominator, one supporter and the nominee's supervisor.

Rene Logan - Sales Manager, Australia and New Zealand - will be visiting Flinders on Thursday 12 July to hold Research Professional training sessions, hosted by Research Development and Support in Flinders Central Library.

The Research Professional system is accessible to all Flinders staff and students interested in sourcing research funding opportunities, and give users access to a powerful database of worldwide funding opportunities. The system can also be used to send automated regular email alerts for new funding opportunities to you or to your research group. All opportunities on the system have been eligibility verified for Australian researchers.

During this session you will be able to drive your own searches in real-time, with Rene there to advise and guide you through the system and its latest updates and features.

Places are limited so book now at ienrol/research.

The call for session convenors for the 6th Social Science Methodology Conference is now open. It will close on 6 July. The Australian Consortium of Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) is asking people to please consider convening a session at the conference on a topic within the themes listed below.

The call for abstracts of papers is also open, and will close on 24 August. A second call for papers will be made following the closing of the call for session convenors.

The 6th Social Science Methodology Conference will be held on 12-14 December at The University of Sydney.

A unique feature of this conference is that it is multi-disciplinary and brings together researchers and methodologists from a range of environments and contexts.

The conference is organised around four themes:

1. Research paradigms and designs;
2. Research methods and techniques;
3. Research technology and tools;
4. Datasets, data collections and data archiving.

There will be three types of papers:

1. Work in progress papers where an abstract is reviewed (abstract in the conference proceedings). Abstracts should be submitted even if a full paper is also submitted since abstracts will be reviewed and notifications sent first.
2. Full papers where the full paper is blind peer reviewed (full paper published in the final conference proceedings).
3. Posters - including a student poster competition (abstract in the conference proceedings).

The conference website provides information about the conference, including key dates and deadlines, registration fees and submission guidelines.

Australia-Harvard Fellowships are offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation (The Foundation) supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia.

These Fellowships are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard who have a persuasive plan for collaborative work in Australia with Australia’s best bioscience researchers and educators. The award also supports Australian researchers who wish to follow-up joint initiatives at Harvard.

The Foundation seeks to attract applicants whose work will bring clear benefit to Australia as well as Harvard. The Foundation normally envisages a working visit of several months, during which it encourages Fellows to interact widely including with educators and students.

Some senior applicants favour a shorter visit, but one that enables them to take a primary role in a symposium or instructional course open to numbers of Australians. Another option is the opportunity to undertake longer studies, for example, of sabbatical duration.

The Foundation especially values applicants who can demonstrate strong potential for ‘break-through’ impacts resulting from their collaborations and where its contribution may be seen as ‘seed capital’ for superior innovations.

Australia-based applicants become eligible when they can demonstrate significant value in working at Harvard with a former Fellow from Harvard, and have the intention to bring advances back to their Australian institutions.

Australia-Harvard Fellowship grants are donated to eligible Australian institutions which administer the funds on standard terms.

Further details of Australia-Harvard Fellowship are on Harvard Club’s website at: http://www.harvardclub.org.au/australia-harvard-fellowships/

Applications for 2019 awards close on 10 September 2018. The Flinders internal closing date is 27 August 2018. For advice and information, please contact Mary Lyons, Senior Research Grants Officer (IGII).

The Flinders Social and Behavioural Human Research Ethics Committee (SBREC) have brought in two changes that will take effect from 1 July 2018.

To minimise the number of forms that applicants need to submit, the Low / Negligible Risk Assessment Form has been merged with the Application Form. All applicants are now required to complete the risk assessment at the front of the new application form. This section has undergone minimisation from the original Low / Negligible Risk Assessment Form.

The second change is to the Response to Conditional Approval and Deferral forms. For student led projects all conditional approval responses and deferral responses now must be signed by the student and student’s supervisor. If the principal researcher is a staff member, then the forms do not need to be signed before submission.

The new forms are now available for download at the Guidelines, Forms and Templates webpage on the Human Ethics section, Research Development and Support.

If you have any queries or require assistance in relation to these new forms, please do not hesitate to contact Andrea Mather or Rae Tyler on human.researchethics@flinders.edu.au.

Four projects led by Flinders University have received funding success in the recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant funding announcements. Flinders now has a total of 6 projects that have been funded through the ARC Linkage Projects Scheme in 2018, after two Flinders led projects were announced in the first release.

The project teams include researchers from Flinders’ Colleges of: Business, Government and Law (CBGL); Education, Psychology and Social Work (CEPSW); Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS); Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS), and; Science and Engineering (CSE).

Promoting engagement with life in older adulthood was awarded $202,623. Flinders’ Dr Timothy Windsor (CEPSW), Professor Mary Luszcz (CEPSW), Dr Ruth Walker (CNHS) are working with Dr Trevor Mazzucchelli (Curtin University), Associate Professor Robert Stawski (Oregon State University) and Ms Amber Watt (University of Adelaide). The project will consider the increase in engagement by older adults to assist organisations and aged care service providers adopting innovative approaches to promoting ageing well. The team are partnering with Oregon State University, ECH Incorporated, the City of Okaparinga, and the Office for the Ageing.

Meaningfully communicating the value of arts and culture through reporting was awarded $180,437. Flinders’ Professor Julian Meyrick (CHASS), Professor Robert Phiddian (CHASS), Professor Richard Maltby (CHASS), Dr Tully Barnett (CHASS) will be working together with Mr Peter Louca (Arts SA), Ms Satu Teppo (Arts SA) and Ms Christabel Anthoney (Festivals Adelaide). The project aims to change the way culture can be valued and measured through reporting.

Economic complexity as a driver of innovation and smart specialisation will be working with SA Department for Industry and Skills (Formerly Department of State Development). The project was awarded $143.646. Flinders’ Professor John Spoehr (CSE), Associate Professor Giselle Rampersad (CSE), Professor David Powers (CSE), Dr Rong Zhu (CBGL) and Professor John Quiggin (University of Queensland), aim to determine how economic complexity can drive innovation and smart specialisation, and how industry can be supported to transition to a more competitive economy.

Professor Adrian Linacre (CSE) and Professor Kenneth (Paul) Kirkbride’s (CSE) project Visualisation of latent DNA was awarded $106,705. Adrian and Paul will be working with Forensic Science SA and the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency. The project aims to deliver a proof-of-concept that allows visualisation of invisible DNA (latent DNA) into a quick, inexpensive and practical DNA collection method that will lead to DNA evidence being available in more cases.

Each of these projects will be featured in upcoming Inspiring Research articles.

The two earlier successful projects have been featured in Inspiring Research - Dr Michael Morrison (CHASS) and Associate Professor Amy Roberts (CHASS) - Interrogating the Riverland's colonial frontier, and Dr Michael Morrison and Dr Darlene McNaughton’s (CMPH) - Indigenous foodways in colonial Cape York Peninsula.

Changes have been made to the Linkages round, with the ARC moving to a continuous submission and assessment of proposals. As there are no set closing dates, researchers and their partner organisations can work on proposals at any time throughout the year. Please contact the ARC Grants Team in Flinders RDS, for further information.

Dr Katherine Morel (left) and Professor Pamela Sykes

Dr Katherine Morel, a former HDR student in the College of Medicine and Public Health, has been awarded the Radiation Research Editors' Award from the Radiation Research Society (RRS) on the back of research conducted in the laboratory of Flinders’ Professor Pamela Sykes.

The Editors’ Award honours a Radiation Research Society Scholar-in-Training who has published an outstanding paper in Radiation Research. Katherine’s publication: Parthenolide Selectively Sensitizes Prostate Tumor Tissue to Radiotherapy while Protecting Healthy Tissues In Vivo was published in March 2017. Co-authors include Flinders’ researchers Rebecca Ormsby and Pamela Sykes.

Radiation Research is consistently in the top quartile of journals in the areas of biophysics, radiation, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging. It has a H index of 111, (one of the main measurements of the quality of a journal - the higher the number, the higher the quality). Articles in this journal often have a high level of international collaboration, and Katherine’s article is representative of this.

Katherine was a recipient of a 2018 Flinders University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence and is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University.

The award will be presented at the RRS annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Conference on Radiation and Health, 23-26 September 2018, in Chicago, USA.

BRAVE Flinders Research and Innovation series present their next lecture, AI and Health - Who's at the Wheel? to be held on 14 July 2018, 10.30am to 11.30am at SAHMRI.

Professor Alison Kitson will present an update on AI applications in the health sector and what this technology means for ageing.

Alison is an internationally recognised researcher and nursing leader and is the Vice-President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University.

This is a free event and registrations are not required.

This lecture is presented in association with the official program for the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas.

The MRFF has announced a funding opportunity for publicly funded clinical trials that address areas of health burden and unmet need, such as rare cancers and rare diseases. Applications to this grant opportunity must propose a clinical trial that addresses an 'unmet medical need' by improving the health outcomes for members of the Australian community living with serious health conditions whose diagnosis or treatment is not adequately addressed by existing options.

This grant opportunity has $33 Million assigned to it with the aim of funding around 20 applications, which would mean applications should be around $1.5 - $2 Million with the plan for 5 years applications.

Grant applications will be managed by the NHMRC and as such, via RGMS. Further information is available at grants.gov.au.

Research Development and Support has a web section which includes information on the MRFF. This includes guidelines and category descriptors for current grant opportunities, as well as how to apply. Minimum data is due on 1 August 2018 and the applications close on 15 August 2018. Any queries on the MRFF can be directed to Gareth Rees, Grants Officer via phone 8201 2199 or email research.grants@flinders.edu.au or your College Research Support staff.

National Science Week is coming up on 11 - 19 August 2018. Register your event, lecture, workshop or other science-related activity by 30 June and it will be included in the comprehensive brochure of events that is widely distributed. This includes any event during August and into September.

Everyone is cordially welcome to the launch of Science Alive! (which is the largest science expo in Australia). This event will also highlight the range of activities that will form part of National Science Week this year.

When: Thursday 2 August from 7 pm

Where: Goyder Pavilion mezzanine at the Adelaide Showground

Cost: FREE, with drinks and nibbles provided

The launch features a thought-provoking presentation on Weird Animals, Sex and the Future of Men by Professor Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University, and the most recent winner of the prestigious Prime Minister's Prize for Science.

Prof Graves is an evolutionary geneticist who works on Australian animals, using their distant relationship to humans to discover how genes and chromosomes and regulatory systems evolved. She uses this unique perspective to explore the origin, function and fate of human sex genes and chromosomes, (in)famously predicting the disappearance of the Y chromosome.

Register your attendance at https://launchofsciencealive2018.eventbrite.com.au

Another way to celebrate National Science Week is with a Brain Break Morning Tea. Schools, organisations and workplaces can order their free Brain Break quiz kit via the national website. Applications close on 17 July.

For any enquiries, please contact: Rona Sakko, Chair, National Science Week SA Coordinating Committee on 0419 827 723 or via email at ronadel@dodo.com.au or rona.sakko@gmail.com

Defence Science and Technology (DST) is proud to present SCINDICATE 2018 on 29-30 August at its Fisherman’s Bend laboratory in Melbourne. The theme for SCINDICATE 2018 is Future Science and Innovation for Game Changing Capabilities.

DST welcomes expressions of interest from industry, universities, research agencies and STEM organisations who have a genuine interest in making new connections, learn more about DST and be a part of the future of science supporting defence capability in Australia.

The expression of interest is essential to manage numbers as there are capacity limitations at the DST Fishermans Bend laboratory which is a secure defence site. Following a security vetting process, successful registrants will be contacted and issued with a ticket to attend. Unsuccessful registrants will also be advised.

SCINDICATE is the new brand name for the previous annual external engagement event called Partnerships Week. The name abbreviates Science (Sc) and Industry (Ind) and is pronounced Syndicate, meaning a group of individuals or organisations combined to promote a common interest; in other words, partnership and collaboration.

Registrations of interest can be placed via the Eventbrite page. For more information about the event, email Scindicate@dst.defence.gov.au.

The Beat Cancer Project Funding program will open on 2 July 2018 with four research schemes - Early Career Fellowships, Mid-Career Fellowships, Principal Research Fellowships and Travel Grants. The Translational Research Packages will not open until 27 August 2018.

The objectives of the Beat Cancer Project are to increase funding for cancer research, increase the capacity for researchers to attract more national and international research grants, and build a stronger cancer research workforce and broader research infrastructure in South Australia.

The Beat Cancer Project is a South Australian state-wide initiative intended to support and advance cancer research within the state. It is funded by Cancer Council SA and the SA Government through SA Health) and administered by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).

Researchers will be required to complete an on-line application form – the link to the form will be accessible on the date that the scheme opens. Please refer to the Beat Cancer Project website to access the link to the application form. If you require further information about any of the above Schemes, please contact Gareth Rees, Senior Research Grants Officer.

Early Career Fellowships

One Early Career Fellowships will be funded in 2018.
Funding Available: Up to $80,000 each per annum for 3 years with the requirement of matched funding.
Open: 2 July
Close: 28 September
Funding guidelines

Mid-Career Fellowship

Two Mid-Career Fellowships will be funded in 2018.
Funding Available: Up to $100,000 each per annum for 3 years with the requirement of matched funding.
Open: 2 July
Close: 28 September
Funding guidelines

Principal Research Fellowships

Two Principal Research Fellowships to be funded in 2018. Applicants working in the field of population health are strongly encouraged to apply.
Funding Available: Up to $200,000 each per annum 3 years with the requirement of matched funding.
Open: 2 July
Close: 28 September
Funding guidelines

Travel Grants

Travel Grants to commence in 2018.
Funding Available: up to $10,000 per applicant to support short-term exchange arrangements; up to $2,500 to support conference attendance and travel.
Open: 2 July
Close: 28 September
Funding guidelines

Translational Research Packages

The scheme aims to support practice- based research and evaluation projects, and identify targeted, multidisciplinary translational research that address specific State priorities.
Funding Available: Package of up to
$150,000 per year for three years. Matched funding is required.
Open: 27 August
Close: 22 October
Funding guidelines

The College of Medicine and Public Health is hosting an information session on Research Technology Platforms available to staff at Flinders.

At this session you can hear about the wide variety of facilities and services and learn more about how they can support your research. It will offer the opportunity to talk one-on-one with platform representatives.

Facilities/platforms on offer include: Animal, Antibody Production, Cell Screen SA, Flow Cytometry, Proteomics, Genomics / Bioinformatics, Microscopy, and Low-dose X-Ray Irradiation.

The information session will be held on Friday 6 July 2018, from 12 PM - 1 PM in the FCIC Function Room, Ground Floor, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer. All welcome and a light refreshment will be served.

Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) are holding a forum on How to secure an early career researcher (ECR) fellowship?

To be held on Wednesday 4 July 2018, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM at Rumours (6th floor), Union House, University of Adelaide (North Terrace campus). Doors open from 5:00 PM,  and networking with light refreshments from 7:00pm.

All Welcome - FREE admission. RSVPs are required for seating and catering by Thursday 28 June to anne.jurisevic@adelaide.edu.au.

Speakers will be:

Dr Cadence Haynes on The process and experience of applying for fellowships as an ECR

Manager: Research Grants, Research Services, University of Adelaide

Cadence has a background as a medical researcher, with a PhD in reproductive health.

Cadence has expertise as a science communicator and has worked as an administrator of competitive research funding since 2011. She now works within Research Services at the University, as the manager responsible for coordinating submission of applications and establishment of new funding within the health and biomedical sector.

Professor Damien Keating on Submitting a stand out ECR fellowship application

NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Head: Molecular & Cellular Physiology Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University

Damien received his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 2003 and undertook post-docs in Hamburg and Melbourne. He missed out on national early career fellowships, was recruited to Flinders University as a BioInnovation SA Re-search Fellow, and then held an ARC Future Fellowship and NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (Level 2, current). He has also held grants from the ARC and NHMRC worth about $7 million and published about 80 papers.

Associate Professor Kristin Carson-Chahhoud on Designing successful research projects that stand-out from the crowd

NHMRC ECR Fellow, School of Health Sciences, UniSA

Kristin is an Associate Research Professor and NHMRC Fellow in the School of Health Sciences with the University of South Australia. She has held back to back NHMRC fellowships and is the recipient of multiple NHMRC and other project grants.

Kristin was named 2014 Premier’s Channel 9 Young Achiever of the Year, 2015 Young Australian of the Year for South Australia and one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence in 2015. Her research focuses on novel technology such as augmented reality, holographic technology and virtual reality as a delivery mechanism best-practice evidence-based disease management guide-lines and recommendations.

A/Professor Wendy Ingman on How to make the cut? From the panellists perspective

The Hospital Research Foundation A/Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide

Wendy is a breast biologist at the University of Adelaide, based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Her re-search dissects the biology of how the breast develops and functions to better understand how disease states occur, including lactation mastitis and breast cancer. After postdoctoral research as an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, USA, Wendy returned to Adelaide in 2005 and established the Breast Biology and Cancer Unit at the University of Adelaide which is part of the Robinson Research Institute. Wendy has served on NHMRC Early Career Develop-ment Fellowship panels for the past 3 years. Her current appointment is The Hospital Research Foundation Associate Professor of Breast Cancer Research.

With A/Professor Beverly Muhlhausler, Head: Food and Nutrition Research Group / NHMRC Career Development Award Fellow, School of Agriculture Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, as the Chair for the Forum.

Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity Policy Club presents Commercial determinants of health.

Corporations have a major influence on population health. Commercial practices affect key economic, social and environmental determinants of health and equity including income, employment, healthcare and medicines, food products and supply systems, and the natural environment. This policy club presents cutting edge research on approaches to regulation for commercial determinants of health, presents tools for evaluating the health impacts of corporations, and provides an opportunity for discussion of the best approaches to addressing commercial determinants of health.

To be held on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 4:45 PM for 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM at Flinders in the City, Cnr Flinders Street and Victoria Square,  Level 10 Rooms 10.1/10.2.

Guest Presenters will be:

Professor Sharon Friel

Director and Professor of Health Equity at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University.

Sharon is Professor of Health Equity and Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is also Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy ANU. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. She is Co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity. Between 2005 and 2008 she was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Her interests are in the political economy of health; policy, governance and regulation in relation to the social determinants of health inequities, including trade and investment, food systems, and climate change.

Dr Julia Anaf

Research Associate, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity

Julia’s research focuses on assessing transnational corporations as commercial determinants of health. The Southgate Institute has been conducting pilot studies to better understand the health impacts from the operations of transnational corporations across different industry sectors and jurisdictions. These studies aim to inform appropriate methodologies for future research designed to expand the scope of corporate health impact assessments and implications for health equity.

Professor Elizabeth Handsley

Lecturer, College of Business, Government and Law

Elizabeth teaches constitutional law and media law at Flinders University, and researches mainly on children's media law. In that work Elizabeth exposes existing regulations to multidisciplinary and cross-doctrinal comparisons, for example with human rights and consumer protection paradigms.

Elizabeth was a co-author of a recent WHO Europe report on digital food marketing to children, and has co-authored articles evaluating anti-obesity laws by reference to the Australian Constitution and international human rights law, recently published in the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Australian Journal of Human Rights respectively. A co-authored article on the application of human rights and business principles to food marketing is forthcoming in the UNSW Law Journal.

A Q&A Panel will follow these presentations, facilitated by Professor Fran Baum AO, with Ross Womersley, CEO SACOSS, that will elaborate on the ideas presented and involve discussions with the audience.

This is a free event and finger food will be provided from 4:45pm

Please RSVP to enquiries.southgateinstitute@flinders.edu.au. For any queries, please email julia.anaf@flinders.edu.au.