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Fourteen South Australian startups working across space, health, sustainability, cybersecurity, construction and the arts have been chosen for Adelaide University’s startup acceleration program. Now in its 11th year, the Innovation & Collaboration Centre’s Venture Catalyst program supports early-stage founders to plan, build and grow sustainable, globally scalable and investment-ready businesses.

A new Adelaide University study is challenging long-held assumptions about Australian women in agriculture, revealing that many women involved in farming businesses do not identify with the traditional ‘farmer’ label, despite playing critical roles in the success of modern farms. Published in the Journal of Rural Studies, the research found that while some women strongly embrace the title, others a...

Now, Adelaide University researchers are calling for a fundamental shift in how suicide is prevented, arguing that work, unemployment and financial insecurity must be recognised as critical factors in Australia’s suicide prevention response. Funded by the Medical Research Future Fund’s Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission, the two-year Work and Unemployment: Vital to Effective Suicide Preve...

Long-term use of testosterone treatments may make older men stronger, but it alone is unlikely to help them in the battle against type two diabetes. Adelaide University researchers led an Australian-based collaborative trial involving centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, looking at the effects of testosterone treatment over four years to prevent type 2 diabetes in at risk men between t...

Building a habitat on the moon is going to depend on a collaborative process between humans and robots. But Adelaide University PhD candidate Albert Rajkumar is exploring the importance of another player in the process – the architectural artifact itself.