Dr Alice Twomey – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland From grey to green: using seagrass instead of seawalls to keep our shorelines where they are As rising sea-levels threaten coastal communities, people have turned from costly infrastructure to seagrass for coastal defence. But most research has stuck to testing similar coasts, grasses and soils.…
Dr Cheng Zhang – CJ Martin Fellowship, University of Queensland Cleaning up Australia’s drinking water: efficient new product removes ‘forever’ chemical Australian water and global wallets might soon be free of the $300 billion impact of ‘forever’ chemicals called PFAS. UQ researchers have designed a new product that cleans up PFAS chemicals that are extensively…
Dr Andrew Swayner – Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland Brains on fire: a new disease affecting Queenslanders, under the microscope A mystery new disease that affects Queenslanders is being uncovered by UQ and Mater researcher Dr Andrew Swayne. A devastating disorder where the immune system attacks the brain, called autoimmune encephalitis, is having a significant…
Csilla Demeter – lead researcher, University of Queensland
Fresh Science is on hold for 2022. We will be back in 2023.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
