October 2022

PhD candidate and Inaugural 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholar Julie Dao is making significant contributions to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Miss Dao is currently completing her research into the mechanistic assessment of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid function as a preventative treatment for cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly ischemic vascular diseases. Each year, MedTech […]

Through disrupting the idea of who is a leader, and re-thinking how we identify differing goals and values in a system, we now introduce a series of cybernetics principles that will allow us to translate these themes into skills for leading change: Feedback Connections (Perspective) Plurality Synergy Cybernetic principle: Feedback Central Idea: In order to

Cybernetics is way of understanding systems with a focus on relationships and dynamics between humans, technology and physical environments. Cybernetics acknowledges that systems are complex and comprise a myriad of feedback loops that inform the way those systems operate, fluctuate, and change (or learn) over time. Cybernetics is an ancient idea8 that was given new