by michelecrawshaw | Feb 8, 2021 | Clinical study, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Research activity, Updates
Listen to A Better Start’s Director, Professor Wayne Cutfield, talk to Radio New Zealand’s Nine To Noon programme about what happens when gut bacteria from healthy teenagers is introduced, in capsule form, to severely overweight teen’s digestive...
by michelecrawshaw | Jan 26, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start and Cure Kids have joined forces to create a contestable funding round for child health research. Expressions of Interest close on 17 February, 2021. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Does one proposal have to cover all three themes – healthy weight, early...
by michelecrawshaw | Jan 25, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates, Webinars
A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea and Cure Kids are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 2 February, 2021 at 12pm, Cure Kids and A Better Start Joint Funding Round – Q&A. Register now In this webinar, A Better Start Director Wayne Cutfield and Cure Kids Director of...
by lwan604 | Jan 14, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Updates
New Zealand research has shown how gut bacteria from healthy, lean people can be used to improve the health of teenagers who are clinically obese. Obese Auckland teenagers who swallowed capsules of the gut bacteria of healthy peers reduced a condition called...
by michelecrawshaw | Jan 4, 2021 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Meet the Researcher, News
A researcher with A Better Start’s Healthy Weight team, Dr Sarah Maessen talks about her current project, surviving lockdown and the best piece of advice she has ever received. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR CURRENT PROJECT? Recently we’ve seen that the number of...
by lwan604 | Dec 2, 2020 | Media release
Decades of work aimed at improving children’s learning success and wellbeing has earned A Better Start’s deputy director Professor Gail Gillon the University of Canterbury’s highest research honour. Professor Gillon is the winner of the UC 2020 Research Medal, awarded...
