Triple Helix: global forum for local ideas
[ Research Review 0307 ]
In an Australian first, the University of Melbourne has launched a local issue of the international science journal The Triple Helix.
The journal was launched at a reception of 5th World Conference of Science Journalists at the Bio21 Institute in Parkville, attended by The Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser, A.C.
The University of Melbourne is the first Australian university to become part of the international journal, which began over two years ago in Cornell University USA and now includes chapters in other Ivy League universities, MIT, Oxford and the National University of Singapore.
The journal addresses issues concerning science in law and society. This first Australian issue contains a diverse range of articles including those on the vaccine for cervical cancer, the impact of natural diasters in India and an article on our search for happiness.
Its main feature focuses on universities as knowledge factories and how universities are shifting to a market place paradigm.
The international journal is the only one of its kind run completely by students. At the University of Melbourne, the committee is made up of about 25 students from a range of faculties including Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Science, Engineering, Commerce and Law.
The journal comprises submissions from undergraduate students at Melbourne and from 28 Universities around the world. Each chapter publishes its own issue twice yearly.
“The Triple Helix will provide undergraduate students at the University of Melbourne with a global platform for the expression of their opinions and research findings”, says Sook Jin Ong, President of the Melbourne chapter.
“In setting its priorities the University of Melbourne has committed itself to three strands of a triple helix, the strands being excellence in Research, Teaching and Knowledge Transfer”, says Associate Professor Phil Batterham, Associate Dean (Communications and Development), Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
“The Triple Helix journal embodies all three. In writing about research, the student writers are learning and transferring knowledge to the community.”
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