Most have heard of the educational theory of learning styles, which argues students can be categorised as either tactile, auditory or visual learners. It’s been around since the 1970s. It’s also now largely regarded as pseudo-scientific fad; studies have found no ...

A $120 million research ship that’s discovered underwater volcanoes and investigated climate change will become a floating classroom for budding marine scientists and mariners. The CSIRO’s RV Investigator is set to host the Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Alliance Network ...

This is Campus Review‘s Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. It’s Research Week at Southern Cross University, which has campuses on the Gold Coast, Lismore and Coffs ...

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Atos, Bridgestone, Dow, GE, Omega, Panasonic, P&G, Samsung, Toyota and Visa. The Olympics attracts serious big-hitters to its marketing program – The Olympic Partner program, or TOP. Dr Con Stavros is the program director for postgraduate marketing and associate ...

Researchers from Melbourne universities will soon have the opportunity to work in the new $13 million laboratory set up by multinational defence industry giant Lockheed Martin. STELaR Lab is a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and the Defence Science Institute (DSI). The ...

There are often fine lines between accidental borrowing, paying homage, witty allusions, coincidental reproductions and downright plagiarism – just ask Melania Trump – but one step that can help students, researchers and academics avoid having their heart-in-the-right-place negligence lumped in ...

A team comprising researchers from New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington and the United Kingdom’s University of Liverpool have been awarded grants totaling almost AU $815,000 to explore a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Just over half of the grant ...

As Australia’s team of 419 athletes head over to Rio de Janeiro to compete in 26 sports at the 2016 Summer Olympics, University of Sydney senior lecturer in skill acquisition and sports psychology, Dr Steve Cobley, has poured some cold ...

This is Campus Review‘s Profile series, where we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Today, it’s Anna Nowak’s turn to tell us about her important work researching cancer treatment, her love of ...

Dr Peta Stapleton, a clinical psychologist at Bond University, has been researching whether Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can help people overcome unhealthy food cravings. EFT involves a series a taps on certain points of the face, head and upper body, ...