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By Liz McGrath German-born Manou Rosenberg smiles when she admits she gave living in Western Australia a ‘test run’, two years before she was selected as a Forrest Foundation Scholar....

By Liz McGrath Bioinformatician and Forrest Fellow Philipp Bayer is a valuable commodity in today’s world – a biologist with ‘a knack’ for computational analysis and a desire to tackle...

By Liz McGrath Bhedita Seewoo laughs that growing up the middle of five children in a highly competitive and tight-knit family might have left her with a burning desire to...

The Forrest Research Foundation will host a new exhibition this month on creativity in science which will showcase artworks by first-year students studying neuroscience at The University of Western Australia. Presented...

A scientist passionate about preventing future pandemics, a researcher looking to ‘future proof’ Australia’s kelp forests and a chemical engineer focused on improving the process of hydrogen liquefaction are all...

A scientist passionate about preventing future pandemics, a researcher looking to ‘future proof’ Australia’s kelp forests and a chemical engineer focused on improving the process of hydrogen liquefaction are all recipients of the prestigious 2022 Forrest Fellowships.

The Forrest Research Foundation will inject world-class knowledge into the Western Australian research community,  with six new scholars to conduct their PhD research at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Curtin...

An exciting new addition to the city’s landscape will help attract the world’s brightest minds to Western Australia. The new development, known as Forrest Hall, has been designed to promote...

FORREST RESEARCH FOUNDATION Post-doc Fellowships for 2024 – now open until 14 June 2023   The Forrest Research Foundation is offering up to 5 prestigious three-year Post-doctoral Fellowships to outstanding...

By Liz McGrath For Masnun Naher, the road to a career in science has been more difficult than that of many of the people she has come to know as...

A new joint scholarship launched by the Forrest Research Foundation, The University of Western Australia and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas will enhance the State’s capacity to attract PhD researchers to...

For tens of millions of people around the world, slavery isn’t a vestige of the past, but a reality. In Australia alone, an estimated 41,000 people were living in modern...