Peer-to-peer mentoring boosts digital and social inclusion for older Australians
RMIT University and the University of the Third Age (U3A) Network Victoria partnered on the ‘Shaping Connections’ project to investigate how to improve social and digital connectedness in older adults.
Expertise in human rights and law helps transform mental health care
RMIT’s Professor Penelope Weller is a senior legal academic whose research has helped tackle Victoria’s failing mental health system and introduce a rights-based focus for reform and services.
Understanding and tackling Spotty Liver Disease in poultry
RMIT University researchers identified the bacterial species that causes Spotty Liver Disease in chickens and developed diagnostic tools for the serious issue that is affecting global egg production industries.
Coffee concrete trial turns organic waste into a valuable resource
RMIT researchers collaborated with Macedon Ranges Shire Council to conduct a world-first coffee concrete footpath trial.