Every semester, we see international students face avoidable challenges simply because they weren’t shown how the system works.

These challenges can have real consequences, such as:

• 💸 Unexpected fees or debt from missing key payment or census dates
• ❌ Failed quizzes or tests due to unfamiliar systems or submission processes
• 📚 Incorrect enrolment that delays graduation or affects visa requirements
• 😟 Unnecessary stress trying to figure everything out alone

Come along to this workshop and avoid the most common mistakes others wish they knew and make new friends!

• Location: Flinders City Campus, Level 3, Room 306
• Date & Time: Friday, 7 August 12:15pm. Please arrive by 12pm to register and settle in.
• Register: https://events.humanitix.com/i-wish-i-knew-that

👉 Spots are limited, so we strongly encourage you to register and attend.

👉 FREE snacks are provided.

Curious about a career in health and medical research? Come along to Road to Research and discover what’s possible.

Meet placement, honours, masters and PhD supervisors offering a wide range of research projects, from biosciences, through to clinical trials and public health. Find out about their research, discuss what interests you and potentially find your future research supervisor.

Learn more about the pathways into health & medical research at Flinders, discuss entry requirements & scholarships and talk with current Flinders Health & Medical Research Institute students, all in a relaxed environment – with pizza lunch provided!

Register via the Eventbrite link to secure your spot.

Book Club Series | Short Stories, Big Impact

About this event

Led by Flinders writer and academic Marina Deller, join us for the Book Club’s first city‑based session exploring short stories and the art of small narratives.

About this event

Short fiction invites us into a moment, a voice, a feeling, and often leaves us thinking long after we’ve finished. From flash fiction to contemporary collections, we’ll explore how writers create depth, tension and connection in just a few pages.

📚 Bring along a short story or collection you’ve enjoyed, even just one that has stayed with you, or come along to listen and join the conversation.

📖 Discover and borrow from the Library’s Leisure Reading Collection, curated to support reading for enjoyment.

About the Book Club Series

Supported by the University’s Thriving at Flinders program, the Library’s 2026 Book Club series is all about connection, wellbeing and the joy of leisure reading. Featuring Flinders University writers, it offers a relaxed space for staff and students to come together and share ideas.

Each session includes:

• Curated reading lists
• Guided discussion led by academic staff
• Light refreshments and small giveaways

👥 Open to staff and students.

📌 Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

About the speaker

Marina Deller is a writer, academic and critic at Flinders University, working on Kaurna Country.

Their work explores identity, grief, memory and storytelling across forms including essays, short stories, poetry and hybrid works. Marina’s writing has been published widely, including in The Conversation, Westerly, Voiceworks, Archer and InDaily.

They are an award-winning teacher of Writing and Literature and an active contributor to the Life Narrative Lab, where they curate and lead reading events that centre contemporary storytelling.

Event details

📅 Date: Tuesday, 11 August

🕛 Time: 12.00pm – 1.30 pm
📍 Location: Flinders City Campus, Welcome Hub (Level 1), Adelaide CBD
👥 Audience: Open to staff and students

📌 Accessibility & dietary requirements: Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

Eventbrite tickets here. 

This event is for prospective students interested in an Honours Degree with the College of Health and Enablement

This information session will provide details about what the Honours program entails; you will meet the Honours Health Sciences Coordinator; and hear from current/past Honours students; and there will be plenty of time for you to ask questions.

As part of the Honours degree, you can complete a research project in a health discipline of your choice – such as disability, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, optometry, nutrition, exercise science and more – allowing you to shape your study around your passions.

An Honours degree enables you to develop advanced research skills, deepen your expertise, and work alongside experienced researchers on projects that make a real difference. You’ll contribute to meaningful research, build valuable professional connections, and gain the confidence to influence practice and drive positive change.

Scheduled Sessions:

• Tuesday 11 August
• Monday 23 November

For further information please contact che.honours@flinders.edu.au

Disabled characters are often written for screen before disabled actors are invited into the creative process. What changes if that invitation comes earlier?

This research event explores disability representation, screenwriting, and consultation through the development of Growing Pains, a comedy-drama feature screenplay written by Assemblage HDR member and Screen PhD candidate and filmmaker Lily Drummond. Developed across multiple drafts in consultation with AACTA Award-winning actor, writer, and advocate Hannah Diviney, Growing Pains follows two best friends in their final year of high school as they navigate friendship and differing ambitions.

Join us for a presentation from Lily about her PhD research and the development of Growing Pains, followed by a table read of selected scenes from the screenplay performed by Hannah Diviney and students and alumni of the Flinders University Drama Centre. Lily will then be joined by Hannah in conversation, to investigate how consultation shaped the work. They will analyse how story and character evolved through collaboration, and discuss aspects of access, agency and creative responsibility.

Lily Drummond is an Adelaide based screenwriter and director. Her films include ‘With Love, Lottie,’ ‘Hypothetically, the End,’ ‘The Bear Hunt,’ and ‘Illustrating Sam Newton,’ which have screened at festivals such as Sydney Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, SXSW Sydney, and St Kilda Film Festival. Lily’s film ‘With Love, Lottie’ won the 2025 Iris Prize Youth Jury Award, and two South Australian Screen Awards. Her work champions joyful, complex, authentic disabled and queer characters, and she pushes for deeper representation and inclusion in Australian film.

Hannah Diviney is a writer, disability advocate,  actress, screenwriter, speaker, author and media personality. Her disability advocacy has garnered global attention thanks to both a viral petition encouraging Disney to create a disabled Disney Princess and a successful campaign encouraging both Lizzo and Beyonce to change ableist lyrics. Her debut book, I’ll Let Myself In, a collection of personal essays chronicling what it means to come of age in a world not built for you, was released in 2023.

Led by Justina Ashman – writer, editor and zine-making extraordinaire – this beginner-friendly workshop introduces the fundamentals of zine-making.

You’ll explore simple layouts, folding techniques, and creative prompts to help you build a complete A7 mini zine from a single sheet of paper by the end of the session.

Along the way, you’ll dive into the world of zines and DIY publishing, experiment with collage-based approaches, and have space to overshare about niche special interests in the name of creativity.

All art and collage supplies will all be provided – just bring your ideas and come along to achieve your zine dreams!✍️✂️📝🖨️

About the speaker:

Justina Ashman is a writer, editor, zine-maker and PhD candidate at Flinders University. Her writing has appeared in such journals as Liminal, Kill Your Darlings and Pencilled In. She is a co-producer and co-host of the Amy & Book Club podcast with author Amy Matthews. She spends her time researching queer romance novels and making zines about her cats.

Links:

• Follow Justina on Instagram at @javerstina
• Follow Amy & Book Club on Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts
• Read Justina’s short fiction at Liminal and Kill Your Darlings

Curated with Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker Un-Discipline is a powerful exhibition of First Nations art that challenges colonial frameworks of knowledge, culture, and classification. Join a free FUMA floortalk offering deeper insight into key works and curatorial ideas behind the show.

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 13 August

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 27 August

12:15 – 12:45    Friday 4 September

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 10 September

Flinders University Museum of Art

Ground Floor Social Sciences North Building

Follow the link to select a date and reserve your place

Join Mariana Enriquez – Flinders’ 2026 Writer-in-Residence and “master of the macabre” (Sydney Morning Herald) – for an wide ranging Q&A about  her incredible life and career, from a childhood under the Argentine dictatorship to her bestselling horror fiction that has electrified the literary world and gathered profiles in outlets such as The New York Times and The Guardian. Mariana will also be discussing her latest project, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, a travel memoir about the world’s most distinctive cemeteries, which was listed as a Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2025.

Following the conversation with Lecturer in Creative Writing Alex Cothren, Mariana will take questions from the audience and will be available for book signings and further networking.

After touring the world, the Flinders residency is Mariana’s first visit to Adelaide, so we hope you can be part of this special event.

The event is free. Bookings required via EventBrite and subject to availability.

Join Mariana Enriquez—“the queen of Latin American literary horror” (The Saturday Paper)—for a special visual tour of the places that inspired her writing. From the haunted neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires that have terrorised contemporary horror lovers to the famous (and infamous) cemeteries explored in her essay collection Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave (Time Magazine Must-Read Book 2025), Enriquez will guide audiences through the real places behind her work. Accompanied by a projection of photographs hand-selected by Enriquez herself, this special event offers a rare glimpse into the landscapes that have shaped some of the most acclaimed gothic writing of the twenty-first century.

The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Sponsored by Flinders University and the Assemblage Centre for Creative Practice Research.

Cost: Free, register via EventBrite

Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre

Date: Wednesday 19 August 2026.

Time: Entry at pm for 6:30pm start

Curated with Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker Un-Discipline is a powerful exhibition of First Nations art that challenges colonial frameworks of knowledge, culture, and classification. Join a free FUMA floortalk offering deeper insight into key works and curatorial ideas behind the show.

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 13 August

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 27 August

12:15 – 12:45    Friday 4 September

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 10 September

Flinders University Museum of Art

Ground Floor Social Sciences North Building

Follow the link to select a date and reserve your place

Curated with Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker Un-Discipline is a powerful exhibition of First Nations art that challenges colonial frameworks of knowledge, culture, and classification. Join a free FUMA floortalk offering deeper insight into key works and curatorial ideas behind the show.

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 13 August

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 27 August

12:15 – 12:45    Friday 4 September

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 10 September

Flinders University Museum of Art

Ground Floor Social Sciences North Building

Follow the link to select a date and reserve your place

PC4 2026 Scientific Symposium 

PC4 (Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group) in partnership with Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute invites you to come together and drive innovation and improvement in cancer in primary care research on Wednesday 9 September 2026 at Crowne Plaza Adelaide, SA.

With a focus on the theme “Primary Care: Central to Comprehensive Cancer Care”, the day will showcase primary care’s vital and enduring role throughout one’s cancer journey — from prevention and early detection through to treatment, survivorship, and palliative care.

The Symposium will showcase the latest research in primary care and cancer across a range of sub-themes, including the incorporation of cutting-edge technology, optimising the integration and provision of care across primary and tertiary systems, improving psychological and physiological support, and emerging trends in cancer and cancer care.

Register here

Curated with Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker Un-Discipline is a powerful exhibition of First Nations art that challenges colonial frameworks of knowledge, culture, and classification. Join a free FUMA floortalk offering deeper insight into key works and curatorial ideas behind the show.

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 13 August

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 27 August

12:15 – 12:45    Friday 4 September

12:15 – 12:45    Thursday 10 September

Flinders University Museum of Art

Ground Floor Social Sciences North Building

Follow the link to select a date and reserve your place

Led by Justina Ashman – writer, editor and zine-making extraordinaire – this beginner-friendly workshop introduces the fundamentals of zine-making.

You’ll explore simple layouts, folding techniques, and creative prompts to help you build a complete A7 mini zine from a single sheet of paper by the end of the session.

Along the way, you’ll dive into the world of zines and DIY publishing, experiment with collage-based approaches, and have space to overshare about niche special interests in the name of creativity.

All art and collage supplies will all be provided – just bring your ideas and come along to achieve your zine dreams!✍️✂️📝🖨️

About the speaker:

Justina Ashman is a writer, editor, zine-maker and PhD candidate at Flinders University. Her writing has appeared in such journals as Liminal, Kill Your Darlings and Pencilled In. She is a co-producer and co-host of the Amy & Book Club podcast with author Amy Matthews. She spends her time researching queer romance novels and making zines about her cats.

Links:

• Follow Justina on Instagram at @javerstina
• Follow Amy & Book Club on Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts
• Read Justina’s short fiction at Liminal and Kill Your Darlings

Book Club Series | Witches: Dark Histories and Powerful Women

This spooky season, join Flinders University writer and academic Lisa Bennett for a Library Book Club session exploring witches across history.

About this event

From folklore and early modern fears to feminist reclamations and contemporary fantasy, we will trace how the figure of the witch has been shaped, challenged and reimagined across time.

📚 Bring along a book, character or story that features a witch figure, or simply come along to listen and join the conversation.

📖 Discover and borrow from the Library’s Leisure Reading Collection, curated to support reading for enjoyment.

About the Book Club Series

Supported by the University’s Thriving at Flinders program, the Library’s 2026 Book Club series is all about connection, wellbeing and the joy of leisure reading. Featuring Flinders University writers, it offers a relaxed space for staff and students to come together and share ideas.

Each session includes:

• Curated reading lists
• Guided discussion led by academic staff
• Light refreshments and small giveaways

👥 Open to staff and students.

📌 Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

About the speaker

Associate Professor Lisa Bennett is a literary scholar at Flinders University whose work explores gender, narrative and cultural representation across literature and popular culture. Her research spans the Viking Age, as well as genre fiction, speculative storytelling and creative practice.

She is the author of Viking Women: Life and Lore and the forthcoming Yet She Lives: Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology (2026), a vivid retelling of the lives of mythological Norse women.

Lisa is also the co-author of Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing and, writing as Lisa L. Hannett, is an award-winning author of multiple short story collections, a novel, and over 80 works across fantasy, science fiction, horror and historical fiction.

Event Details

📅 Date: 13 October

🕛 Time: 12.00pm – 1.30 pm
📍 Location: Central Library, Level 1
👥 Audience: Open to staff and students

📌 Accessibility & dietary requirements: Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

Eventbrite tickets here. 

Book Club series | Halloween: Spooky Stories

Book Club just got spooky! Join Flinders writer and academic Amy T. Matthews and the AMY& podcast for a Halloween-themed discussion.

About this event

From classic horror and gothic fiction to contemporary thrillers, supernatural tales and eerie favourites, this session will explore why we’re drawn to unsettling stories, and how they reflect fear, imagination and the cultural moments we live in.

Blending conversation, storytelling and live recording, this session offers a unique finale to the series while keeping the relaxed and interactive feel of the Book Club.

📚 Bring along a favourite spooky, gothic or Halloween-inspired read, or come along to listen and join the conversation.

📖 Discover and borrow from the Library’s Leisure Reading Collection, curated to support reading for enjoyment.

About the Book Club Series

Supported by the University’s Thriving at Flinders program, the Library’s 2026 Book Club series is all about connection, wellbeing and the joy of leisure reading. Featuring Flinders University writers, it offers a relaxed space for staff and students to come together and share ideas.

Each session includes:

• Curated reading lists
• Guided discussion led by academic staff
• Light refreshments and small giveaways

👥 Open to staff and students.

📌 Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

Event details

📅 Date: 29 October

🕛 Time: 12.00pm – 1.30 pm
📍 Location: Noel Stockdale Room, Central Library, Level 1
👥 Audience: Open to staff and students

📌 Accessibility & dietary requirements: Please use the registration form to let us know of any accessibility requirements, allergies or food intolerances.

Eventbrite tickets here

About the speaker

Amy T. Matthews is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Flinders University.

Her novels have been published internationally and in translation, and are available in print, audio and ebook. She also writes under the names Amy Barry and Tess LeSue.

As an academic, Amy’s research focuses on genre fiction, particularly popular romance, historical fiction and fictions of climate change. She brings a strong interest in storytelling, genre and reader engagement to both her writing and teaching.

Amy is the host of the QBD Romance Book Club and co-host of the AMY& podcast.

Her publications include Someone Else’s Bucket List, voted onto the Better Reading Top 100 Books of 2025.

About AMY&

AMY& is a bookish podcast with benefits.

Hosted by Amy Matthews alongside series regulars Justina Ashman, Abby Guy, Millie Heffernan, Payton Hogan and Harry Stewart, the podcast features genre deep dives, author Q&As and a live book club with a signature cocktail or mocktail.

Blending accessible academic insight with a lively, conversational style, AMY& creates an interactive space for readers of all kinds, from new book lovers to seasoned bibliophiles.

This event is for prospective students interested in an Honours Degree with the College of Health and Enablement

This information session will provide details about what the Honours program entails; you will meet the Honours Health Sciences Coordinator; and hear from current/past Honours students; and there will be plenty of time for you to ask questions.

As part of the Honours degree, you can complete a research project in a health discipline of your choice – such as disability, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, optometry, nutrition, exercise science and more – allowing you to shape your study around your passions.

An Honours degree enables you to develop advanced research skills, deepen your expertise, and work alongside experienced researchers on projects that make a real difference. You’ll contribute to meaningful research, build valuable professional connections, and gain the confidence to influence practice and drive positive change.

Scheduled Sessions:

• Tuesday 11 August
• Monday 23 November

For further information please contact che.honours@flinders.edu.au

Flinders University’s December Graduation Ceremonies are a celebration of academic achievement and an opportunity to recognise the dedication, perseverance, and success of our graduating students.

Held across a series of ceremonies, these events bring together graduates, their families, friends, supporters, staff, and distinguished guests to mark this significant milestone. Each ceremony features the formal conferral of awards, graduate processions, presentations by University representatives, and the presentation of graduates to the Chancellor.

Graduation is one of the University’s most important traditions, providing an opportunity for the Flinders community to come together and celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class as they prepare for the next chapter of their personal and professional journeys.

We look forward to welcoming graduates and guests to celebrate this special occasion with us.