Helping sports incentives kick goals for disadvantaged kids
Children reap enormous rewards from participating in organised sport or physical activities. These include physical and social benefits, and assistance building emotional control, resilience and self-esteem – while providing a
Adolescent mental health and improved ear health services the focus for 2024 CRF PhD Excellence Awards
Yohannes Efa and Lisa Callahan are the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation (CRF) PhD Excellence Award winners for 2024. CRF’s financial support of the PhD
CRF and HDA Collaborate for Annual Schools Communicator Award
Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation is proud to announce its Schools Communicator for 2024; Dr Hayley Leake. Funded by the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation
Development of a smart dissolvable antibacterial microneedle patch for deep burn wound biofilm infections.
Chief Investigator: Dr Hanif Haidari Funding Amount: $100,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Management of paediatric burns is complicated with development of biofilms resulting in delayed healing or sepsis and
Responding to the needs of kinship carers in South Australia.
Chief Investigator: Dr Fatin Shabbar [Early Career Researcher] Funding Amount: $40,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: This study explores success factors and characteristics of kinship care that promote safety, stability
Brighter with books: co-designing a reading intervention to improve emotional wellbeing in children with cancer.
Chief Investigator: A/Prof Amanda Hutchinson Funding Amount: $97,389 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: Bibliotherapy has been a successful adjunct therapy to support adults with cancer and promises to be similarly
A novel prophylactic for the prevention of ventilator induced lung injury in preterm infants.
Chief Investigator: Dr Jack Darby Funding Amount: $99,987 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: To survive being born too soon, preterm babies sometimes require ventilation or supplemental oxygen to help them HDA and CRF PhD Excellence Award 2024: Call to HDA members for applications.
Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation (CRF) PhD Excellence Award 2024 The CRF PhD Excellence Award is $5,000 per annum for up to 3 years only
Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections.
Media Release : University of South Australia 13 September 2023 The innovation – which has undergone advanced pre-clinical trials – is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacterial cells,