VIDEO: A Conversation With Professor Geoffrey Brooks
Professor Geoffrey Brooks, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Future Manufacturing) at Swinburne University of Technology, sat down with Global Challenges Manufacturing Innovation leader, Professor Geoffrey...
View ArticleAdventures in Sweden: fish, fortresses and notes from the field
By Mitchell Just, Global Challenges PhD Scholar Back in September I had the opportunity to present a paper at the International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Conversation With … Dr Allan Rennie
In the latest video from Global Challenges A Conversation With … series, Professor Geoffrey Spinks chats to Dr Allan Rennie. The Conversation was held in September, when Dr Rennie, a engineering from...
View ArticleManufacturing collaboration to aid Australia’s innovation
By Professor Geoffrey Spinks Most researchers appreciate the benefits of collaboration, yet most collaborations develop almost accidentally. In November, the University of Wollongong and Swinburne...
View ArticlePostcard from Italy: emerging technology to preserve historical artefacts
By Global Challenges Travel Scholar Andrew Squires In December, I was fortunate enough to travel to Frascati, Italy to attend the 1st annual THz-ARTE conference. This conference was funded from...
View ArticleLaunch of the Southern Manufacturing Innovation Group
Written by Prof. Geoffrey Spinks, Leader, Manufacturing Innovation, Global Challenges Anyone who says manufacturing in our region is dying wasn’t present at the launch of the Southern Manufacturing...
View ArticlePostcard from Seoul: one step closer to affordable MRI scans
By Dipak Patel I was really excited as soon as I found out I was awarded with a Global Challenge Travel Scholarship. I wanted to use the scholarship to attend a conference to present my new research...
View ArticleThink it. Design it. Make it: Innovation Works! opens for 2016
By Professor Geoffrey Spinks Like many other academics, I spend a lot of time thinking about things – trying to come up with solutions to the various problems we are interested in. In my case, I’m...
View ArticleEnabilise: working with users to create new mobility aids
By Dr Eliza de Vet How do you imagine yourself as an older person? Are you hunched over your uniform grey walker, fearful of falling, no longer able to bend your knee for a game of lawn bowls? These...
View ArticlePostcard from Cuba: Supply Chain Management and POMS
By Global Challenges Scholar Emily Ryan Starting my PhD I had no idea where I would find myself along the journey, turns out Cuba would be on the list of stops… but I’m getting ahead of myself. My name...
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