23rd July 2018

Here is a snapshot of QUT in the media for the week from July 16, 2018.

Emmanuel Adewuyi (postgraduate researcher)
Global study on antibiotics obtained without prescription: ABC TV Weekend Breakfast, Ten Daily, Financial Express India

 

 

 

Professor Leonie Barner
Australian Senate committee urges ban on single-use plastic: Plastics News

Professor Richard Brown, Dr Kabir Suara
Researchers develop floating device to monitor real-time river flow and water quality: ABC News Online, ABC TV News Breakfast, ABC TV News Brisbane & Sydney, ABC Radio Capricornia Breakfast, ABC Radio Tropical North Breakfast, ABC Radio Sydney Drive (2:12:00), ABC Radio Taree NSW Statewide Drive, SBS NewsYahoo NZ, China.org, Fairfax Media, Courier-Mail

 

 

Dr Cassandra Cross
MyHealthRecord, data security, risks and privacy: ABC Radio Brisbane Focus

Dr Kate Devitt
Ethical and legal frameworks for drone use in agriculture: Farm Online

Professor Suzi Derbyshire
Teaching and learning and research: Times Higher Education

Ian Faulks
People using mobile phones while driving: ABC Radio Kimberley WA Mornings (1:15)

Dr Aurelien Forget
3D printing and growing cells in bioink gel: Scope (17:10) 

 

 

Professor Marcus Foth
QUT partnering with Logan Council on CityStudio innovation: Technology Decisions

Professor Lyn Griffiths, Professor Graham Kerr
Ageing, dementia, Parkinson’s and QUT Real Health public seminar: ABC Radio Brisbane Evenings (1:00:30)

Shonel Hall
Paramedic training at QUT: Scope TV (20:15)

Dr Honor Hugo
INSPIRE program promoting STEM in regional Queensland: ABC Radio Western Queensland, Fairfax Regional Media

Professor Flavia Huygens
Faecal bacteria at high levels in Cabbage Tree Creek: ABC Online  

Dr Ruth Knight
Buying from social enterprises: Choice

Associate Professor Mark Lauchs
Bikie gangs, anti-consorting laws and clashes: 2CC Canberra Breakfast, News Corp

Michelle Lum (PhD researcher)
QUT researcher on consumers experiences with healthcare providers: 4BC Radio Drive 

Associate Professor Gary Mortimer
Why plastic bag bans triggered a huge consumer reaction, supermarket strategy to win back customers: The Conversation, Business Insider Australia, Lifehacker Australia, News CorpABC Radio Brisbane Breakfast (28:35), ABC Radio Taree NSW Statewide Drive, Seven Sunrise
Supermarket upgrades: 9 News
Amazon online sales event: News Corp
McDonald's moving to plastic straws:  New Daily
Coles moving into convenience and smaller stores: New Daily, ABC Radio Sydney Focus (8:30), Radio 2GB Sydney Money News
Customer frustration with Kmart checkouts in the centre of stores: News Corp

 

 

Dr Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios
Research on texting while driving: Radio 2SER (14:10)

Professor Lionel Page
Research on achievement through skill or luck: ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast (1:05:40)

Associate Professor Chamindie Punyadeera
Developing a blood test to determine head and neck cancers likely to spread: Rare Disease Report

QUT
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence: Campus Morning Mail
Inner City North State Secondary College partnership with QUT: The Educator
BridgeTech Program consortium partners and first cohort: BiotechDispatch
Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame: George Miller News Corp, Courier-Mail Confidential; Wagners News Corp; George Marchant  The Courier-Mail

Professor Matthew Rimmer
The law and 3D printing of guns: Ten Daily

Dr Jason Sternberg
Social media, coffee culture and technology allowing printing of photos on coffee: ABC News Online  

Associate Professor Nic Suzor
Law and online defamation: ABC News

Professor Lindy Willmott
End-of-life treatments: ABC Radio Brisbane Afternoons (1:05:54)

 

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