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Q&A with graduate Roz Kelly: ‘country kid’ turned celebrity broadcaster
15 Feb 2025

When Australians tune into the 24/7 television coverage of the Paris Olympics from 26 July to 11 August, they’ll also be watching a University of the Sunshine Coast graduate at the top of her own game

UniSC Clinical Trials set for $11.5m SEQ expansion
15 Feb 2025

The University of the Sunshine Coast is set to double its clinical trials capacity on the Sunshine Coast and at Moreton Bay, in a $11.5 million expansion project

3 Good health and wellbeing
A dietitian's deliciously diverse nutrition career
15 Feb 2025

From working as a nutritionist for the Wiggles and top-level athletes at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, to now working as the Discipline Lead in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Professor Fiona Pelly has firsthand experience of what a deliciously diverse career dietetics can be

Justine Dunsmore's role in helping bring us some of our biggest festivals
15 Feb 2025

Justine Dunsmore has rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in music.

3 Good health and wellbeing 4 Quality education
How school sports houses help shape our understanding of belonging and identity
3 Feb 2025

The naming of school sports houses can have a long-lasting impact on people's sense of self and connection to community, write Kate Kirby and Dr Amy Clarke for The Conversation

3 Good health and wellbeing
Carers toolkit can make delirium less frightening and less dire: Study
22 Jan 2025

A world-first pilot study, involving UniSC, has found an interactive online toolkit could boost carers’ ability to determine whether a loved one was at risk, or was likely to have, delirium.

3 Good health and wellbeing 4 Quality education
UniSC announces plans for Sunshine Coast medical program
21 Jan 2025

The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has today announced plans to offer the Sunshine Coast’s first fully local medical program, set to start teaching students from 2030 or earlier

Child sexual abuse by women is on the rise
9 Jan 2025

Sexual offending perpetrated by females is probably much more common than people think. In Australia, we have seen an almost 208% increase in the number of women in the criminal justice system for sexual offences from 2008 to 2023

Cooked chook spoilage and backyard cricket: UniSC experts answer seasonal questions
3 Jan 2025

UniSC experts will be on hand to field a few of our more pressing questions and are available for media queries over the break

3 Good health and wellbeing
New study to improve diagnosis and treatment of chronic lung disease
23 Dec 2024

A UniSC research team has received a prestigious $921,000 national grant for a $1.5 million project that aims to more effectively diagnose and treat infections associated with an incurable lung disease

Professor Mark Loon joins UniSC as Dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries
23 Dec 2024

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Mark Loon to UniSC as the new Dean of the School of Business and Creative Industries

Your lifestyle choices are already showing up on your brain and could be prematurely ageing it, study finds
18 Dec 2024

New research from UnSC’s Thompson Institute has found a relationship between lifestyle choices that affect dementia risk, and early signs of ageing on the brain

14 Life below water 17 Partnerships for the goals
Where do manta rays go, and other marine life riddles researchers need help to unravel
18 Dec 2024

This summer, beach goers, boaties and scuba divers are being asked to help solve the mystery of how manta rays spend their days, join a search for leopard sharks and become ‘dolphin spotters’

Why it’s better to let your child take 10 minutes to put their own shoes on
17 Dec 2024

Dr Cynthia Hicban is not really advocating tardiness en masse in schools, but the UniSC Education academic made some surprising – and encouraging – discoveries as she researched how children under six interact with others in an early childhood setting

Study reveals trend of young women committing online sexual offences
17 Dec 2024

UniSC researchers find young women are 20 times more likely than both adult women and adult males, and nearly eight times more likely than young males of perpetrating an assaultive child sexual abuse material offence

How pop-up warnings and chatbots could disrupt online child sex abusers
17 Dec 2024

A UniSC Sexual Violence and Prevention Unit study finds messages and chatbots can be effective at stopping people from continuing to search for child sexual abuse materials

Criminology Myth Busters: Discerning Fact From Fiction
16 Dec 2024

Criminology is shrouded in myths and mythology alike – Dr Emily Moir lifts the veil on this often misunderstood area of research and knowledge

9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure 17 Partnerships for the goals
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Research to find ‘missing link’ in home tech for people with disabilities
16 Dec 2024

An innovative UniSC study aims to find the “missing link” in home-based smart technologies to enable people with spinal cord and brain injuries to live more independently

Golf scientist and food system researcher named UniSC outstanding alumni 2024
13 Dec 2024

A sport scientist who mentored Olympic and professional golfers and a food system researcher who leads a team of 110 in sustainable agriculture at the CSIRO are UniSC’s two Outstanding Alumni for 2024

Two UniSC researchers named country’s best in field
13 Dec 2024

Two UniSC researchers named Australian leaders in their fields are respectively working to create safe, ethical and beneficial Artificial Intelligence (AI) and help business managers learn from the COVID-19 pandemic

4 Quality education
Great teaching, happy students put UniSC among Australia’s top-ranked universities
13 Dec 2024

The University of the Sunshine Coast offers one of the best overall educational experiences in the nation, according to the latest annual Good Universities Guide

National awards showcase UniSC’s Social Work excellence
13 Dec 2024

UniSC has been awarded three national Social Work awards recognising excellence in research and learning that addresses some of society’s most pressing issues

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Amplifying her voice to protect the planet
13 Dec 2024

As newly crowned Miss Earth, Jessica Lane has found the global platform she’s been searching for – one the UniSC Journalism student is determined to use to convince others to join her mission for a sustainable future.

3 Good health and wellbeing
UniSC scientists named STEM superstars
11 Dec 2024

A love of science has led two researchers from UniSC down two very different career paths – but today they share the same national honour

3 Good health and wellbeing 5 Gender equality 10 Reduce inequality
Tackling it all
9 Dec 2024

Balancing being the fullback for the Brisbane Broncos NRLW with work and academic pursuits at uni is not for the faint of heart; But it’s Hayley Maddick's love of sport, a desire to use her brain, and her joy at helping to pave the way for future female athletes that keeps her going

3 Good health and wellbeing
Global study identifies hidden genetic cause of intellectual disability
6 Dec 2024

A global research collaboration has revealed a hidden cause of a rare intellectual disorder associated with severe language delay, epileptic seizures, motor impairment and brain abnormalities

Dolphins NRL and UniSC to keep scoring shared goals
4 Dec 2024

UniSC and National Rugby League’s newest team the Dolphins, are now looking to the future, after re-signing an exclusive education sponsorship partnership for another two years

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How a tragic moment made a positive impact on Elizabeth's life
3 Dec 2024

When Elizabeth Schahinger saw the impact occupational therapists had on her nephew, it put her on a path that would change her life – despite having to overcome some massive learning challenges along the way

3 Good health and wellbeing 12 Responsible consumption and production
Social media ban for U16s: UniSC experts comment
2 Dec 2024

UniSC experts comment on Australia's social media ban for under 16s, with the law set to come into force in a year's time

9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure 15 Life on land 17 Partnerships for the goals
From Varroa mites to brain receptors, key UniSC research projects receive ARC funding
29 Nov 2024

Almost $2.2 million in funding from the Australian Research Council has been awarded to UniSC to investigate new ways to kill Varroa mites without harming honeybees, develop pheromone traps for parasitic worms and gain novel insights into vital brain receptors