Welcome to this month's issue of Relevant Research. We hope that these stories will encourage you to think about ways you might work with our staff and students, so that we can help each other and together make a better world.

Coming up in September we have a wide variety of research events occurring which you are welcome to attend:

• Occupational therapy students' presentations on various health topics on 4 September
• An online clinical research forum about risk in discharge planning for older people on 5 September
• A series of short documentaries about 20 Dunedinites, on 6 September
• The William Mathew Hodgkins memorial lecture on 10 September
• An online seminar on 11 September about coping with the effects of on-call and shift work on sleep
• A one day symposium on feminism and figurative sculpture on 14 September
  
• A cultural tourism business seminar on 18 September
• Pop-up performances and exhibitions about ocean noise from 22 September
• Three postgraduate art students' exhibitions at different times during September

More details of these and other events are available here.

Prof Leoni Schmidt
Director: Research and Postgraduate