Melbourne Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

Experimental study of a turbulent boundary layer over surfaces with spatially varying roughness

In the 1990s, central Dandenong in Melbourne’s southeast was in decline. But, over the past decade and a half, this trend has been halted and in some areas reversed.

It’s hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behaviour regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood this troubling phenomenon.

The Melbourne Social Equity Institute recently sponsored a conference plenary session titled Research Co-Produced with Consumers and Peers to Combat Stigma in Health Service Provision.

Listen to the recording of AEMO's recent presentation of their Q3 Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.

A new online family violence resource co-designed with the First Nations peoples of Wadawurrung Country has been launched in Geelong. The project was funded by a Melbourne Social Equity Institute Seed Funding Grant.

Fifty participants attended the Third Lateral Learning Program on Smart Grid Technologies and Implications for Inclusive Development from 14-17 October 2019 at the University of Melbourne.

Investigation of combustion noise in turbulent premixed flames using direct numerical simulations

MSSI is offering four travel bursaries to participate in the 10th World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi

Prof. Richard Sandberg, MEI's Energy Technology Program Leader, has recently received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for his research into designing quieter and more efficient aerospace technologies.

Proa, a start-up by University of Melbourne alumni, has recently become the first, independent provider of solar or wind farm forecasts to be integrated into the National Electricity Market Dispatch Engine (NEMDE) run by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

After six weeks of working to develop a project aiming to power the energy transition, on 16th October Energy Hack 19 finalists pitched their ideas to an expert judging panel for a chance to win part of $35,000 in prize money.