We are getting fatter - no matter which way we look at it, a Deakin University analysis of two popular obesity testing methods has found.
Deakin University psychology researchers have found that body image isn't always a negative experience for women.
Deakin University's Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, Professor Damien Kingsbury, is once again playing a critical role in the region's affairs, this time advising on Australia's future relationship with Indonesia.
A Deakin University Professor has called on Australians, particularly young Australians and those living in rural areas, to say what they would like to see as a Head of State now and in the future?
A research team led by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute has for the first time demonstrated that the effect of obesity on the risk of premature death is seriously underestimated unless a person's hip circumference is taken into account.
Deakin University biologists have found that males with the best visual trickery techniques are more successful at mating, for great bowerbirds that is.
Aboriginal people have been urged to consider accounting and auditing as careers and see these jobs as just as valuable to their communities as becoming a lawyer, teacher or nurse in a joint national initiative being run by Deakin University and CPA Australia.
Nearly one third of Australian adults are suffering vitamin D deficiency according to a study involving more than 11,000 adults from around the country. This is the first national study to evaluate the vitamin D status of Australians. Those at greatest risk for deficiency were women, the elderly, the obese, people doing less than 2.5 hours of physical activity a week, and people of non- European background.
Deakin University’s first medical students have graduated in Geelong. As graduates of Victoria’s first rural and regional medical school, these 109 new doctors are ready to play a role in alleviating Australia’s medical workforce shortage.
A Deakin University accounting expert is supporting recent calls by CPA Australia for an overhaul of Australian superannuation fund reporting, and is using the situation facing the fund of which he is a member to drive home the point.
A passion for improving the health of Australian children has seen Deakin University’s Professor Jo Salmon named as one of Australia’s top health researchers.
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