By Dr Giselle Roberts Paramedic and senior lecturer, Dr Susan Furness, calls them “her people”: the businessman who got hit by a car while crossing the road, the guy in the red shirt who fell off the roof, and the elderly woman who died in her sleep. The […]
This is Badraa Al-Darkazly. She bears a name from another culture. She knows many countries. Has made a bed in many places. In safety and in fear. In warmth and comfort and on stone cold concrete feeling fearful in the dark. She speaks two languages. And her […]
Ian Tulloch has just raised his own bar. Last week the political commentator and La Trobe honorary associate in politics had an opinion article make The Canberra Times. “That was the first time,” he says. “That’s the paper all the politicians read.” The former Bendigo lecturer is a […]
Academics often wonder if their thesis will make it into the hands of those who can learn from their research. Education and Trauma lecturer Anne Southall has perhaps found the most assured way to achieve this. Ten years ago, when she laid out the raw materials of her […]
Helen Irving is our new Professor of Biomedical Science. She began her career with a degree in agricultural science, but soon discovered she was “more interested in biochemistry than in telling farmers how to grow their crops.” Her fascination with cell communication has sustained her ever since. The […]
Do not be fooled by the slow, quiet vegetable patch – Jasim Al-Rawi’s life has been anything but. “It’s a life of adventure and I haven’t told you any of the details,” he says, after two hours of talking about the past. We asked senior Pharmacy and […]
La Trobe University’s Bendigo Campus is bucking the trend for creative arts courses, welcoming a new Associate Professor to head its recently-renewed program. Academic and author Dr Jacqueline Millner is fresh from the University of Sydney where she was Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at Sydney College […]
They were paddling on the Murray River one day, world famous the next. We caught up with the co-stars of the koala video-gone-viral to see how they were coping with all the attention. If you haven’t seen the footage of our outdoor education students helping a koala stranded […]
#BikeBendigoLTU is encouraging us to get on our bikes. And what better inspiration than to hear about the pure joy of the treadlie from one of our own, Executive Assistant to Head of Campus Myl Duffy. This week Myl took the Bike Bendigo Q&A… to stay up to […]
The canoe slips gently from the ramp into Serpentine Creek ripples. Outdoor education graduate Kerrie Jennings is on rudder duty at the back. She’s also tasked with calling instructions to a paddler who’s not been in a canoe since Wet Wet Wet was in the charts. High school […]
