The journey is full of twists and turns for an Indigenous academic at Charles Sturt University, who began his academic studies on a dare.

Starting school can be exciting and, perhaps, a little scary – and that's just for parents. Schools are big and busy. Education researchers at CSU have developed guidelines to help parents, teachers and children as they start school.

What do bouncing balls, dancing robots, a 'digital' patient, and heavy mining processes have in common? The answer is Dr Richard Xu, a Charles Sturt University lecturer in computer science at the School of Accounting and Computer Science at Bathurst, who describes himself as "more an engineer than a researcher".

An investigation into the perceptions of child sexual abuse in regional Australia has revealed a worrying gap in the communities understanding of what actually constitutes child sexual abuse.

Widespread rape and murder continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, but CSU academic Dr Elaine Dietsch says her annual visit to the strife-torn country puts trans-cultural midwifery, primary health care and women's and children's health into a global perspective for her.