Examples of Knowledge Transfer
Below is a list of case studies that illustrate how Knowledge Transfer links the University of Melbourne with its community.
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A lifetime commitment to the ‘new’ practice of knowledge transfer. A LIFETIME in linguistics has taught Professor Michael Clyne that contemporary buzz words had semantic equivalents in earlier times.
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Multilingual, multiscript plant name database. An exhaustive list of plant names translated into a myriad of international languages, compiled by Michel Porcher, honorary fellow, Land and Food Resources.
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Writing Centre breathes new life into theses. IT was the fear of seeing their slavishly-compiled theses lying dormant on a bookshelf and attracting nothing but dust that spurred Meredith Nash and Kirsty Sangster into expanding their writing talents.
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Medieval manuscripts enter the Digital Age. The most innovative interpreter of medieval manuscripts resides not within Oxford's historic Bodleian Library or the hushed confines of the British Library, but rather in a cramped corner room of an unprepossessing office tower at the University of Melbourne.
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Program identifies science’s bright new STARS. In the quest to spark and maintain senior school students' passion for science, education's traditional three Rs have been superceded by the three Es - excitement, enlightenment and engagement.
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Needle and Syringe Cultures. An exhibition that celebrates the syringe in all its dimensions through the different cultural and emotional landscapes into which they are insinuated. It displays a wide array of syringes over time from their medieval origins to modern nanotech applications.
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Students combine to crack mysteries of sustainable architecture, July 2007: A RAW egg, plastic drinking straws and a length of sticky tape were among the unlikely ingredients used to introduce secondary students to sustainable architecture under an innovative project run by the University of Melbourne.
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New research to help graduates of the future become global citizens, June 2007: Preparing tertiary students for citizenship in the globalisation era is the focus of a major new research project led by the University of Melbourne.
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TB research leads to Premier’s Award, June 2007: A Ph D student at the University of Melbourne's Australian International Health Institute has become the first public health researcher to win the prestigious Victorian Premier's Award for Medical Research.
- The Circus Diaries (external web site), May to July 2007: An exhibition that arose from a partnership between the Australian Centre of the University of Melbourne and the Performing Arts Museum at the Victorian Arts Centre. As part of a larger PhD oral history project, writer and director Andrea Lemon spent much of the past two years on the road between Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide interviewing circus elders and travelling with currently-operating traditional circuses.
- University courseware set to go global: An after-hours dash to find information for a chemistry tutorial has led to a major new distribution deal for the University of Melbourne’s exciting range of educational courseware products.
- Future Melbourne: a 10-year strategic plan to position Melbourne as the pre-eminent capital city in the Asia Pacific for living, working and investing.
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