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When up to a third of women post-mastectomy regret their decision to have or not to have breast reconstruction surgery, and many more feel they did not have adequate information to make the correct decision, something needs to be done. That something is BRECONDA (Breast RECONstruction Decision Aid). BRECONDA is an online intervention tool designed to help women with breast cancer – or wit...
Wetsuits that hide humans from sharks
A discovery about the eyesight of sharks has led to a real-life application that could save lives. Western Australia was reeling from a series of fatal shark attacks on surfers, swimmers and scuba divers when Dr Nathan Hart teamed up with a marine technology company to develop, with the support of WA government funding, a shark-deterrent wetsuit. Hart, now an Associate Professo...
MQ Research: major study of homelessness finds housing policy is failing Sydney’s most vulnerable
There is an urgent need for more low-cost housing and alternative housing models of supported housing for Sydney’s homeless, given the high rates of serious mental illness among the homeless, according to new research from Macquarie University and the Matthew Talbot Hostel Clinic run by the St Vincent de Paul Society. In one of the largest studies of its kind, and the largest ev...
Forget the couch: online therapy works just as well
More than 80,000 people around Australia have accessed anxiety and depression assessment services since 2013 through Macquarie’s revolutionary digital mental health portal, the MindSpot Clinic, which is fully funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. The clinic now also delivers interventions to help people with chronic pain manage their disability and distress. ...
Master of Research – making a difference through research
Have you ever considered that you could make a greater impact in your field through postgraduate research? Master of Research Graduate and PhD candidate, Joshua Pate (M Research 2017) currently works for NSW Health as a Senior Pain Physiotherapist and has chosen this pathway with Macquarie for exactly that reason. “Ultimately, it means I can help more patients than I can practising as ...
Boogie flights: how scientists are monitoring whale health by using drones to collect their blow
Macquarie University researchers have led the design and construction of a new system that can be fitted to a custom-built, waterproof drone* in order to sample whale microbiota (the combination of natural bacterial colonies that live in an organism) by flying over and collecting the exhaled vapours from their blowholes. The collaborative research project, led by Macquarie University’...