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Gala concert celebrates Elder Conservatorium community

Elder Conservatorium gala

A stellar assembly of staff and alumni of the Elder Conservatorium of Music will perform in a special Gala Concert, which will also act as the launch of a new group, the Elder Conservatorium Circle, connecting and celebrating the institution’s supporters.

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AIML receives state government funding boost

AIML staff and students with a robotic dog

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) has received $6 million from the state government to strengthen its work and expand domestic artificial intelligence (AI) capability.

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First centre dedicated to sustainable and resilient supply chains

resilient supply chains ship

Positioning South Australia as a focus in supply chain research, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ has today launched the Centre for Sustainable Operations and Resilient Supply Chains (CSORSC).

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Improving car safety for Road Safety Week

Road Safety Week

With 2023 marking the highest number of lives lost on South Australian roads since 2011, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) highlights the importance of vehicle safety as National Road Safety Week (NRSW) kicks off.

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Funding to investigate Australia’s greatest health challenges

Students at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ's North Terrace campus

³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers have received $14,631,111 from the National Health and Medical Research Foundation’s (NHMRF) Investigator Grants, supporting Australia’s highest-performing health researchers.

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Examining the Wim Hof Method’s effect on endometriosis pain

A woman sits in a bath of ice while practising the Wim Hof Method.

The efficacy of the Wim Hof Method (WHM) in relation to endometriosis will be explored in a pilot trial at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ. 

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Genetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of cases

Professor Alastair MacLennan with Mattthew Reinerstein who has cerebral palsy

The world’s largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.

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Teaching older dogs new tricks for a longer life

Photo of Tracey Taylor with a dog on the grass.

Keeping the mind active as we age is often recommended to ward off or improve symptoms of dementia in people, but can the same advice also be put into practice for pet dogs as they enter their twilight years?

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It’s not all about the numbers: no overhaul of suppression orders needed

The co-authors of SALRI's Suppression Order Report stand with a copy of their work.

After extensive consultation and review of existing laws, the independent South Australian Law Reform Institute (SALRI), based at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, has found that suppression orders do not need major reform.

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Researchers to investigate prevalence of PFAS in livestock

Sheep and cows on a farm credit James Bowyer

A new national study by the ³ÉÈË´óƬ will seek to understand the prevalence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Australian livestock, with researchers seeking farmers who have previously applied biosolids as fertiliser to be collaborators in the project.

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