Edith Cowan University has secured more than $1.2 million for two very different research projects in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding.
Projects examining ways to preserve Aboriginal language and song and the future development of autonomous vehicles were both successful in gaining three years of funding support.
We are inviting scientists, mathematicians and engineers to take part in the world’s longest running science competition. Since 2007, FameLab has seen more than 10,000 early career scientists and engineers from across the globe participate.
A new study has suggested a possible reason why people are increasingly turning to smartphones rather than engaging with life around them. ECU technology expert Associate Professor Nicola Johnson from the School of Education believes smartphones offer users a way to disengage from unpleasant or awkward situations and wrestle back control in their dull lives.
A new study has the secret ingredient to improve the safety of common breakfast foods.
Professor Michelle Colgrave, a researcher based at Edith Cowan University and CSIRO, is using revolutionary protein technology to detect “hidden” gluten and other proteins causing food allergies.
Professor Hongqi Sun joins 23 Nobel Laureates on an exclusive list of the world’s most influential researchers.
An ECU researcher has called for a rethink in the way Australian schools support the rising number of Australian teens struggling with literacy. Nearly one in five Australian adolescents performs poorly in literacy --and that number is growing.
Australian students spend more time online than the OECD average, and our students' screen use is growing over time. Research suggests that the countries who have invested the most in technology in schools have seen no appreciable improvements in reading, mathematics or science achievement.
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Participants are being sought for a WA-first study exploring the impact of discrimination on people who identify as both Indigenous and queer.
New ECU research has found that more than 40 per cent of older Australians with chronic disease would be unlikely to seek help for mental health conditions even if they needed it.
Edith Cowan University researchers will work with a team of national and international experts to unlock the potential of proteins and peptides – the essential building blocks of life - within Australian flora and fauna.
A new book sheds a fascinating light on the heroic journeys made by Aboriginal people in Western Australia.
Researchers have developed a simple, low-cost way to predict preeclampsia, a potentially deadly condition, responsible for the death of 76,000 mothers and 500,000 babies each year.
New guidelines for the prescription of exercise medicine for people with cancer, co-authored by Professor Professor Daniel Galvão, have released by the American College of Sports Medicine.
A survey of Australian early childhood education centres has found worrying gaps in allergy management practices for children.