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While many people have found time for creative pursuits during COVID-19 lockdown, that's been a challenge for some of our most creative. Bendigo Campus Creative Arts lecturer Dr Andrew Goodman has spent his isolation time transitioning his subjects to online learning and facilitating home schooling for his child, plus applying for some of the new... Continue Reading →
As a paramedicine student and Ambulance Victoria volunteer, Jess Mueller is the first to put her hand up to help others. She says asking for help herself doesn’t come so easily. But Jess is now advocating for students of any discipline to take part in La Trobe’s Industry Mentoring Program, as she did last year.... Continue Reading →
There’s still plenty of the journalist left in Shane Worrell – now a sociology tutor and researcher at the Bendigo Campus. When we asked him about his PhD on transnational communication, submitted earlier this year, he says, “I have something of a hook.” Okay, we’re listening… “My thesis is about intimacy of video calling when... Continue Reading →
Do you remember what you were doing on March 23, 2020? That’s the day COVID-19 restrictions came into play in Australia. One La Trobe graduate, however, has extra reason to mark the date. As the country went into lock down, Kye Pearce began her career as an occupational therapist at disability support service Everyday Independence... Continue Reading →
When the Bendigo Campus blog checks in with Leigh Redding, he’s at a turning point. He’s sitting on the high side of the riverbank above the Goulburn, north of Shepparton. He’s surrounded by River Red Gum forest and frog-filled billabongs, contemplating. “At first it felt like good timing in a way,” says the Outdoor Education... Continue Reading →
Imagine a material that could make jet planes, road trains, even the family car lighter – saving fuel, money and importantly, emissions. It’s called a ‘nano-cermet’, a nanocomposite of aluminium and silicon carbide, and the first few precious fibres of it have been grown at La Trobe University’s Bendigo Campus. Engineering Professor James Maxwell has... Continue Reading →
It’s still early days for the COVID-19 crisis in Australia but already we’re seeing burnout from nurses on the frontline. One La Trobe alumnus has developed a way to support those most at risk. After ten years in the job, critical care and emergency nurse Athol Hann knows how gruelling nursing can be at the... Continue Reading →
By PhD researcher Natasha Joyce I grew up in Bendigo near the Victoria Hill Mining Reserve in Ironbark, and my Mum worked as a tour guide at the Central Deborah Goldmine. My brother and I were always playing in the mullock heaps and tailings that you can still see in the area today. Mum was... Continue Reading →
When Dr Brad Hodge and Dr Pam Harvey received news this month that their new subject needed to go online, they made a few phone calls, booked a car, and headed off on a regional road trip that’s about to shed light on some little-known aspects of country life. They just made it too, before... Continue Reading →
Michelle Black is sitting in the student union; black shirt with a crisp collar, red lips, cropped fringe, looking every bit the architect and academic she once was. But hear her speak, and she’s all nurse now. Michelle says the qualities that made her successful in her former profession – the listening skills, the intuition... Continue Reading →
