"Our very way of life or existence should be very much considered a young experiment" - Dr Andy Herries
Big FAT Ideas presents Focused, Ambitious and Transformative talks by La Trobe University academics. Each presentation challenges the audience to think differently about an issue of local, national or global significance. Big FAT Ideas encourage audiences to engage with issues and concepts they haven’t explored before, or perhaps see familiar issues from a different point of view.
Latest videos
Taking rural health onto iTunesU
Emma Patten and Wayne Cosshall are taking the Rural Health unit and revamping it as an iTunesU subject.
Community participation – rural health services that meet community need
The Rural Health School and three small rural communities are working together to ensure healthcare services meet community need.
Learning through simulation: A rural perspective
The Rural Health School has been awarded two nation-wide projects to deliver simulation to students and rural and remote health practioners in the Hume and Lodden-Mallee clinical practice networks.
Wellbeing and the spaces we inhabit: Exploring and measuring the relationship
Jane's research is exploring micro spatial methods for tracking how wellbeing is created in spaces that are meant to create wellbeing.
Series five
Five speakers take on issues in rural health: Community need, simulation learning, spaces of wellbeing and 'iTuneification'.
Series four
Architecture for science collaboration, ethical geoengineering, obesity epidemic, maternal health and feeding the billions.
Series three
Cotton-wool kids, neglected diseases, voicing Sudanese-Australians, teaching science and more...
Series two
Sex education, diamonds for cancer patients, human extinction and more...
Series one
Eating less fish, pets' positive psychology, accounting and terrorism, sin taxes and more...
Perhaps Kim Jong-un knows exactly what he is doing.
Terry Spithill on his work to control liverflukes in livestock
Russ Hoye talks coaching with Mick Malthouse and Mandy Ruddock-Hudson
Ideas and Society event with Tim Costello and Elizabeth Finkel
Life-like model teeth help Bendigo dentistry and oral health students
