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Groomed for success: New York salon entrepreneur among QUT innovation finalists: The young Brisbane woman behind New York’s top salon booking service, LookBooker, is coming home in October to take on other hot start-ups in the final of the 2016 qutbluebox $100,000+ Innovation Challenge.
Brisbane entrepreneur creates Wi-Fi sharing economy: Meet the Brisbane entrepreneur who wants to do to telcos what Uber has done to taxis.
Switch from shares to bonds will hit super funds and retirees: Self-funded retirees and superannuation funds are heading for rocky times with higher than normal stock market volatility as the market moves from higher risk stocks and shares to bonds, QUT finance expert Dr David Willis said.
Is 40 the new 50? Push for a new national local street speed: Introducing a nationwide local street speed limit of 40km/h will save lives and create more liveable communities, according to QUT researchers.
Queensland women recognised for making a difference in technology and life sciences: A QUT graduate who helps keep life-critical hospital systems running smoothly is among the winners of the 2016 Women in Technology Awards.
Shame & stigma: partners of online child exploiters are DV victims too: The non-offending partners of people involved with online child exploitation often face similar consequences as domestic violence victims such as isolation and stigmatisation, says Natalie Walker, a student of QUT’s Graduate Certificate of Domestic Violence, and founder of PartnerSPEAK.org.au.
Now - Sept 20: Pride Month @ QUT
Sept 14: Always Patsy Cline @ Gardens Theatre
Sept 15: Mid Autumn Moon Festival (free) @ Gardens Point (Kidney Lawn)
Sept 15: Queensland high school external exam discussion forum @ QUT Kelvin Grove
Sept 16: Colonial Charity Ball @ Old Government House
Sept 22: Creative3 Forum @ Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Sept 22: QUT Faculty of Law Comedy Debate @ Room Three Sixty
Sept 24: QUT Learning Potential Fund Riverfire Celebration @ Room Three Sixty
Sept 29: Domestic Violence: Unheard Voices event @ Banco Court
Oct 4-8: The Merchant of Venice (featuring QUT acting students) @ Gardens Theatre
April 5-7: 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Summit @ Gardens Point
Now - Nov 13: 'the churchie' National Emerging Art Prize Exhibition (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - June 18, 2017: William Robinson: Genesis (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- Marina Alexander and Dr Mark King’s call for a drop in local street speeds received wide coverage including Nine News, APN network, ABC Canberra, ABC Radio News, caradvice.com.au, 4BC’s Ben Davis, HighBeam Research and The New Daily.
- Professor Sagadevan Mundree was in Queensland Country Life, Australian Regional Media and The Land regarding the impact of halo blight disease on the mungbean industry. He was also interviewed by ABC Southern Queensland and ABC Wide Bay.
- Soundscape ecology research conducted by Dr Michael Towsey and Dr AnthonyTruskinger in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy was highlighted in the Scientific American.
- Professor Matthew Rimmer (pictured) told The Weekend Australian there was a lack of hard evidence that that the publishing industry would be destroyed by the removal of parallel import restrictions.
- Dr Nicolas Suzor was part of a Radio National feature on online abuse.
- The Courier-Mail profiled IT graduate and PhD researcher David Poxon and his new Wi-Fi sharing start-up Velvet.
- The Courier-Mail also ran a story on acting graduate Ryan Johnson who’s in the new Channel 9 series Doctor Doctor.
- Professor Chris Eves featured in The Australian Financial Review on inner Brisbane apartment prices falling as much as 25 per cent.
- The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age featured findings from research by Professor Lionel Page on how diners choose a good restaurant.
- The Daily Telegraph reported on Professor Janet Davies’ AusPollen Partnership research.
- Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz appeared on 7 News commenting on the latest crime statistics in Queensland relating to domestic violence.
- Professor Lynne Daniels was quoted in APN newspapers on how economic disadvantage contributed to obesity.
- Associate Professor Gary Mortimer did two 7 News stories on retail sales figures and the surge in popularity of docket vouchers, and spoke to Nine News on how shops are stocking Christmas items already.
- Professor Brian McNair’s opinion piece about democracy and politics in the digital age and a QUT-led public debate about the issue ran across the Fairfax network.
- The CairnsEye liftout in the Cairns Weekend Post ran a cover story on Indigenous artist and QUT Creative Industries graduate Jedess Hudson.
- QUT CEA boss Anna Rooke discussed why Australia needs to grow its create-tech industry in an opinion piece in The Australian.
- Robot News featured Dr Luxi Leitner’s LunaRoo project to put a hopping cube on the Moon.
- The APN network published a story on emotional eating with Esben Strodl explaining the three types of dysfunctional eating and how the desired body shapes change over decades.
- Adjunct Professor Mary Sheehan talked to The Courier Mail about alcohol ignition interlocks.
- Radio 4EB’s Women’s Profile show interviewed Dr Mary Crawford (pictured) about 50 years of women working in government.
- Dr Mark McGovern talked about trade and Brexit with Sydney’s 2SER.
- Quest featured QUT law student Hugo Southcott who overcame a snowboarding accident to graduate high school, start uni, and get a job as a legal clerk.
- The North Lakes Messenger (page 9) ran a great photo and story of robot-loving kids at the QUT’s Moreton Bay STEM Fest.
- Professor Ben White was interviewed by ABC Southern Queensland on a study to investigate the community’s understanding of the law at the end of life.
- Professor Alex Bruns discussed social media and citizen journalism on 612 ABC Evenings.
- Engineers Australia’s magazine, create, ran a feature story on the medical robotics work of Dr Anjali Jaipakash and Professors John Roberts and Ross Crawford.
- Peter Black talked about the calming effects of iPads and Facebook’s trending algorithms in his regular technology segment on 612 ABC Breakfast.
- The Australian Financial Review interviewed QUT’s MBA director Glen Murphy for a story on MBAs moving out of the classroom.
- Marketing cited QUT and BCM’s “QUT Global Goggles” (pictured) at last year’s open day in a feature on virtual reality.
- Dr Cassandra Cross and Dr Kelly Richards featured in LifeHacker talking about their study into the impact of online scams, particularly romance fraud, and the victims.
- Mardi McNeil’s discovery of a huge reef being hidden by the Great Barrier Reef continued to make headlines around the world including in The Scientist, CBS 58 News, Reefs.com.
- Professor Zoran Ristovski was on Radio Adelaide talking about nanoparticles found in the brain and causing brain diseases also being found in cars and other sources of pollution.
- Dr Bill Lott joined ABC Sydney to talk about medical marijuana.
- Associate Professor Michael Milford and Professor Jonathan Roberts’ Conversation article on the race for driverless cars was run by the US’s Before It’s News website.
- Redland City Bulletin reported on paramedic and QUT sessional academic John Bradbury being awarded a medal from the Queensland Ambulance Service.
- Dr Beth Saggers’ Conversation article about supporting students with autism was republished by Essential Kids.
Release date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Media contact: media@qut.edu.au
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