University Project Olympics - SHR!MP S02E08

07 December 2025

Entirely coincidentally (or call it fate), just as the ink on SHRMP.edu is dried, a former colleague at Swinburne asks whether I might have a good topic for some health sciences students to work on to learn how to apply research methods to real-world questions.

Funny enough, I do.. my first year of my SHRMP “sabbatical” had filled my notebook with a few potential research questions that could provide excellent study topics.

“How many do you need? (Some are a bit left-field, however.)”

“How many do you have?”

I end up suggesting a first set of 5 project ideas that have real-world research questions at their core:

One contributing directly to SHRMP.bio.

One that is a new idea in Blue-Ocean Ventures, a potential opportunity we discovered while assessing the Future of Aquaculture.

One that's sailing-based (yes, who would have thought).

One that's derived from the intersecting insights from our Blue-Ocean Ventures work on the Future Scenario for Aquaculture and… Scouts (yes, really, it could hardly sound more far-fetched - stay tuned for this one.. )

And a final one, that has been sitting in the somewhat "crazy" HBTX.art box for quite a while. However, at this stage, even I  struggle to construct it into a suitable “Health-Science” project, so it's shelved for the time being.. (but not for too long as the year would throw in another twist).

So by March, I also have a few teams working on three other Industry projects at Swinburne University, feeding into SHRMP.bio, (newly, just for this occasion created) “Aurora Sailing” and Blue-Ocean Ventures.

A purchase order is issued for a crate of Red Bull…

Someone left the door to the Swinburne ATC auditorium unlocked…