Curtin University has appointed Professor Keith Hill as Head of the School of Physiotherapy.

The former Professor of Allied Health brings to the School an outstanding track record in helping organisations to reach their full potential, and in directing multidisciplinary teams to be more effective and productive through a collaborative team approach.

Coles' move to drop popular fruit and vegetables prices by 50 per cent will attract budget-conscious customers but leave the local greengrocers' business largely untouched, a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) marketing expert says.

Dr Gary Mortimer said the discount was another step in Coles' strategy to up their market share by winning over traditional Woolworths customers to their new-design refreshed stores, and keeping them.

A group of crafty Queensland University of Technology (QUT) fashion graduates have been chosen to represent Australia in the 2012 La Biennale di Venezia International Kids' Carnival, in Venice, Italy next week.

Kiara Bulley, Bianca Bulley, Priya Cox, Anna Hickey, Madeline Taylor and Carla Binotto from The Stitchery, an arts collective based in Fortitude Valley, will run a number of workshops at the historic festival alongside representatives from as far afield as Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Romania and the UK.

A new study at UTAS is aiming to prove whether a famed American psychologist's shortcuts to happiness actually work.

Rosalind Woodworth, a Doctor of Psychology student in the UTAS School of Psychology, needs participants for an internet-based study that will test the "interventions" recommended by American psychologist Martin Seligman.