IMPACT | S3 | Ep 5 | Outstanding Researchers LIVE

Some big questions: How can new buildings help achieve our post-carbon future? How can female athletes best return to competition after having a baby? And how can trains stay on the rails, more efficiently and more safely? Surprisingly, there's one answer for them all: outstanding research.  CQUniversity’s annual Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Researchers recognise academics who have achieved exceptional research impacts. This special edition of IMPACT research podcast, recorded live at CQU Rockhampton North in September 2022, welcomes the 2021 recipients to the stage: - Associate Professor Xianbo (Bill) Zhao, School of Engineering and Technology, Mid-Career Research Award - Dr Melanie Hayman, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Early Career Research Award - Dr Qing Wu, School of Engineering and Technology, Early Career Research Award IMPACT is CQUniversity's research podcast, exploring ground-breaking research projects, and their real world impacts. For more information visit cqu.edu.au/research. And to start your own question-answering career with a research higher degree, visit cqu.edu.au/RHD. In the spirit of reconciliation, CQUniversity recognises this episode was recorded and produced on the traditional lands of the Darumbal people in Rockhampton, and the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin Nation in Melbourne.