2024

Articles

Inaugural Charles Perkins Centre Director to step down

After 13 years as inaugural Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre, Professor Stephen Simpson will step down from the role at the end of March 2025.

Group exercise: The silver bullet for exercise motivation?

Exercise is important for a longer, healthier life, but motivation often gets in the way. Science suggests finding a supportive exercise community can spark lasting enthusiasm.

Food processing; the good, the bad and the ugly

Blog for Life is a series of blogs and opinion pieces from the team at CPC RPA Health for Life Program, our clinical, research, culinary and education experts developing resources for healthy longevity. Here, Dr Rosilene Ribeiro examines processed foods.

How do receptors multi-task across different organs and tissues in the body?

An international team of researchers has published a new study in Nature which explains how the body's cell receptors multi-task and interact with the proteins that interpret changes in body chemistry.

Navigating supermarket food aisles

Our CPC RPA Health for Life Program team offers some tips on navigating supermarket food aisles amid the onslaught of advertising designed to make us buy what we might not need and which may not be healthy.

Writer-in-Residence 2024

Expressions of Interest are now open for the Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre 2024 in one of Australia's richest opportunities for creative writers.

Multidisciplinary collaboration for student research experience

The Charles Perkins Centre is leveraging its research excellence to transform the experience of the University’s student cohort with its Summer Research Scholarship program.

The women making a difference at the Charles Perkins Centre

Charles Perkins Centre members reflect on International Women’s Day: their personal and professional experiences, barriers and support, and what this recognition day means to them.

20 February 2024

New researchers to lead health outcomes at Charles Perkins Centre

The Charles Perkins Centre has appointed two world-class researchers to lead its Solutions, and Society and Environment Domains. The Centre’s four research domains drive research collaborations and outcomes in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and their related conditions.