The University of Melbourne
Could your GP prescribe a parkrun instead of a pill?
‘Social prescribing’ is a growing area where health professionals connect patients to non-medical services and activities to benefit their wellbeing.
Western Sydney University
The next generation of global citizens, leaders and changemakers
Academy U, delivered through Western Sydney University’s Future Student Engagement unit, is a four-year program for high potential high school students, designed to empower the next generation of global citizens, leaders and changemakers.
RMIT University
Excellence and innovation in care economy higher apprenticeships
The social services sector is facing unprecedented change including growing demographic demand for services and from requirements and obligations that have emerged from the findings of several recent sector-relevant royal commissions in Victoria.
A voice for the voiceless: 50 Years of meeting diverse community legal needs
The Monash Clinical Legal Education Program enables students to learn and develop as professionals by serving the community.
UNSW
From ideas to impact: Peter Farrell Cup
First published at Shaping Australia Awards by UNSW Preparing students to thrive in their future careers is a key mission of all universities. At the University of New South Wales, however, the long-running ‘learning through doing’ event – the Peter Farrell Cup (PFC) – is taking that mission to the next level.
La Trobe University
A vision for student learning experience
The La Trobe Eye Clinic, a student-led university clinic, was established to create a real-world student learning opportunity, address shortages in clinical placements and provide on-the-job experience in paediatric orthoptics for orthoptic students.
University of South Australia
Transforming anatomy from a first-year headache to many students’ favourite subject
Anatomy is widely recognised as one of the most challenging subjects for first-year allied health students.
Southern Cross University
A safe haven and partner during Northern Rivers floods
As the two-year anniversary of the Northern Rivers’ flood disaster approaches, the community is still wrestling with the scale of the recovery effort. In major regional centres such as Lismore, businesses and schools remain boarded up. People await safe, long-term housing.
University of South Australia
Ending the suicide epidemic devastating rural communities
UniSA’s very own farm girl, clinical psychologist and researcher, Associate Professor Dr Kate Gunn, led a team of academics, industry stakeholders and farmers from around Australia to co-design a free, online self-help program called ifarmwell.
The University of Sydney
Fungi makes meal of hard to recycle plastic
Polypropylene, a hard to recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney.
Macquarie University
World-first intuitive osseointegration procedure.
MQ Health's Limb Reconstruction team performed Australia’s first intuitive neuro-prosthetic limb operation, giving a patient two new mind-controlled limbs.
Flinders University
Submerged archaeology highlights protection
New archaeological research has highlighted major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies which are placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk.