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June 2016

 
 

Australia's Erinn Fagan-Jeffries makes it to top 12 at FameLab International

Congratulations to Erinn Fagan-Jeffries from The University of Adelaide, who beat off competition from thousands of applicants across 27 countries to make it through to the top 12 at the FameLab International Final last week.

Erinn, who won the Australian competition at the Western Australian Museum in May, flew to the UK to battle it out against some of the best science communicators from around the globe at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival.

After captivating the crowd at Wednesday's semi-finals with her brilliant horror-film tale of parasitoid caterpillar killing wasps, Erinn joined Thursday's grand final alongside scientists from Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Qatar, South Africa, Spain, UK and USA. 

The audience and judges were fascinated by presentations on a range of topics, from entertaining tales of exploding cicadas to a folk song about the Riemann hypothesis. 

Erinn's final presentation on the discovery of a whole new world underneath the seemingly uninhabitable Western Australian desert showed once again how arts skills mesh with science to create interest in new discovery and research.

We applaud Erinn on her outstanding result and congratulate Abhi Veerakumarasivam from Malaysia, who claimed the title of 2016 FameLab International Winner for his presentation on the link between cancer and the life cycle of our cells.

"The experience of being part of FameLab International has been incredibly immersive and inspiring," Erinn says.

"Meeting other young science communications from 26 countries and feeling united in our love of science has fed my passion to try and seed that same wonder and excitement in people everywhere"

Since its debut at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival in 2005, FameLab has grown into one of the world's leading science communication competitions. It aims to discover charismatic, up-and-coming scientists who can explain complicated scientific concepts in a fun and accessible way in just three minutes.

Find out more at famelab.org.au or watch last week's FameLab International grand final on YouTube.

 

Features

 

Ground breaking event for international First Nations leaders in arts and culture

An international First Nations cultural leadership event is being produced and presented by alumni of the annual ACCELERATE leadership and development programme for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

Titled Yirama Yangga-na, the three-day creative laboratory and cultural event will be held at the University of Wollongong from 19 – 21 July, connecting Australian indigenous creatives with First Nations delegates from Taiwan, Canada, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands and New Zealand.

Yirama Yangga-na is designed to spark new creative work and build a platform for leaders to share and develop their knowledge in a collaborative and international context. 

find out more about ACCELERATE
 

Watch Jeanette Winterson discuss her new Shakespeare-inspired novel

To celebrate the legacy of Shakespeare in 2016, many of his best-known works are being retold and reimagined by famous writers as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series.

We caught up with multi award-winning British novelist Jeanette Winterson to hear about her take on 'The Winter's Tale' and to find out what she thinks it is that makes Shakespeare's work so timeless.

We supported Jeanette's appearance at the Sydney Writers' Festival as part of ‪‎Shakespeare Lives‬ - our global programme that celebrates the work and ongoing influence of Shakespeare on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death.

Follow #ShakespeareLives to find more out about our global Shakespeare celebrations.

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Share your thoughts on overseas study and you could win a MacBook Air!

Tell us what you think about overseas study and you could win one of two 11-inch MacBook Airs or an Amazon.com gift voucher.

Our Student Insight survey aims to gather country specific information on where students want to study and why to help us better understand the international student market and its trends and motivations. It has been completed by over 200,000 students globally since its launch in 2007.

The survey will take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete. One participant will be chosen at random on 1 August 2016 and 1 February 2017 respectively to win a MacBook Air, and two US$300 Amazon.com gift cards will be awarded at the end of each month.

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