Health/Medicine/Wellbeing
Winners are grinners: Macquarie’s Sport Scholars bring home medals from the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
Macquarie University Sport Scholars have bagged two gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Sport Scholar Esther Qin (pictured above right ) won a gold medal at the women’s three-metre board synchronised diving event (with Georgia Sheehan, pictured above left) and a bronze medal in the women’s one-metre springboard final. Esther and...
Alumni Authors
Welcome to the MQ Matters series showcasing the books and articles written by Macquarie alumni to add to your reading stacks. From fiction, biographies, non-fiction, children’s literature or articles, Macquarie alumni are researching, writing and publishing thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining books to enjoy and share. If you have a book or article to share with your Macquari...
More Databases and Journal Access for Alumni at the MQ Library
The Macquarie University Library has expanded its suite of databases, journals, ebooks and borrowing rights to alumni. Alumni membership to the Macquarie Library continues to be ‘free for life’ and alumni can now access 42 databases across 20 platforms. These provide alumni with over 19 000, 5 000 ebooks and 7 000 videos. Additionally, alumni can now access over 350,000 other documents,...
MQ Research: major study of homelessness finds housing policy is failing Sydney’s most vulnerable
There is an urgent need for more low-cost housing and alternative housing models of supported housing for Sydney’s homeless, given the high rates of serious mental illness among the homeless, according to new research from Macquarie University and the Matthew Talbot Hostel Clinic run by the St Vincent de Paul Society. In one of the largest studies of its kind, and the largest ev...
Forget the couch: online therapy works just as well
More than 80,000 people around Australia have accessed anxiety and depression assessment services since 2013 through Macquarie’s revolutionary digital mental health portal, the MindSpot Clinic, which is fully funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. The clinic now also delivers interventions to help people with chronic pain manage their disability and distress. ...
Master of Research – making a difference through research
Have you ever considered that you could make a greater impact in your field through postgraduate research? Master of Research Graduate and PhD candidate, Joshua Pate (M Research 2017) currently works for NSW Health as a Senior Pain Physiotherapist and has chosen this pathway with Macquarie for exactly that reason. “Ultimately, it means I can help more patients than I can practising as ...