Charles Perkins Centre

What does healthy longevity actually look like – on the plate and in everyday life?

At the Charles Perkins Centre, our CPC RPA Health for Life program brings together chefs, clinicians and researchers to turn evidence into action with its Recipes for longevity and healthy living videos and Blogs for life series.

The team of program director Professor @LuigiFontanaMD , chef-in-residence Mark Hamilton, dietician Shadia Djakovic @shadiaD , exercise physiologist Kate Williamson and educator Wooveen Kim pairs practical recipes with insights on nutrition, movement and whole-person health. This is research you can use, grounded in evidence and designed for real life.

🤝 Meet the team and explore the full program sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
🎥 Recipe & exercise videos
• Grated tofu salad: youtube.com/watch?v=0XTaFi…
• Mushroom tacos: youtube.com/watch?v=RvUKwU…
• Romesco, roasted leek and parmesan: youtube.com/watch?v=EO18GZ…
• Banana cocoa porridge: youtube.com/watch?v=Efbyig…
• Bone health: Movement Matters: youtube.com/watch?v=gn2Urh…
📖 Evidence-based blogs
• The superfoods right in front of us: sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
• Reduce salt, not flavour: sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
• The bone-building effects of exercise: sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
• Surviving cancer: caring for the whole person: sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…
• The hidden costs of excessive exercise: sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…

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The CPC RPA Health for Life Program is a partnership between The University of Sydney Charles Perkins Centre and Sydney Local Health District.

Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre 2026: Expressions of Interest are open for our 10th Writer-in-Residence.

Open to Australian creative writers, the fellowship provides a $100,000 grant for an established writer and offers the unique opportunity to work on a project related to the issues that the Charles Perkins Centre is dedicated to solving, including health, wellbeing, food, ageing, social disadvantage and cultural identity.

Step into a remarkable lineup of alumni – Charlotte Wood, Mireille Juchau PhD, Alana Valentine, Emily Maguire, Tracy Sorensen, Sarah Holland-Batt, Lech Blaine, Fiona Wright and Luke Carman – and help shape the stories that matter.

Submit your Expression of Interest by 11:59pm on Sunday 12 April 2026.

Full story, eligibility &how to ➡️ sydney.edu.au/charles-perkin…

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Luke Carman joins the Charles Perkins Centre as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow 🙌

Award-winning author and essayist Luke Carman has been announced as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow at the @Sydney_Uni Charles Perkins Centre. Carman, a Western Sydney writer whose extensive body of work explores Australia’s cultural margins, grapples with mental illness and interrogates the intricacies and ironies of the writer’s condition receives $100,000 to support a year-long residency at the @CPC_usyd.

“I see the Charles Perkins Centre as a multi-disciplinary organisation bringing together a range of experts to make people well, to make the culture well, and to make society well. Ultimately what a great writer should aspire to is to find terms for the moment that they're in, and ideally to make people well on a scale outside of themselves.”

Luke will be with us at the Charles Perkins Centre for the next year, working, collaborating, thinking, writing and "exploring the quiet desperation of resilience." We can't wait to see what arises from Luke's residency.

He joins our stellar WiR alumni: Charlotte Wood, Mireille Juchau, Alana Valentine, Emily Maguire, Tracey Sorensen, Sarah Holland-Batt, @lechblaine Fiona Wright

Read the full story ➡️ sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

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"Stories Matter: A Writing and Literature Strategy for NSW", launched at @statelibrarynsw today by The Hon @JohnGrahamALP . Our very first Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre, #CharlotteWood delivered an inspired and inspiring speech about the power of trust, 'crucial acts of support' and the necessary freedom to create.

"The key aspect of the Judy Harris fellowship is: trust. In the residency’s very design, Judy and the CPC showed absolute respect to me, and the seven writers chosen since, in imposing just one condition: that the writer spends time at the CPC, brushing up against its scientists in any manner that naturally occurs. There is no requirement to speak, to teach, to present progress reports or show your drafts. There is no deadline. The only request is that you obey your artistic instinct, be open to influence and cross-pollination, and do your work."

We announce our ninth Writer-in-Residence next week and in 2026 celebrate our tenth year with our tenth WiR and a series of celebratory events, showing the impact the trust the Fellowship has afforded writers in their freedom to investigate science and health research and creativity.

This visionary strategy for NSW opens up the realms of possibility for our creatives and our cultural economy. "Only those working now complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art." Charlotte Wood (below, with Judy Harris).

Congratulations to the Minister, Brooke Webb GAICD, Olivia Lanchester, Sarah Ayoub, James Bradley, Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Winnie Dunn, Sophie Gee, Stuart Glover, Lucy Hayward, James Jiang and Jay Lansdown.

Read "Stories Matter: A Writing and Literature Strategy for NSW" 📚 nsw.gov.au/departments-an…

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Fat: Friend of foe? Professor Sir @StephenORahilly presents The Nicholas Catchlove Lecture 2025

Professor O'Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at @Cambridge_Uni is a world-leading researcher into the molecular pathogenesis of obesity, insulin resistance and their related metabolic and endocrine disorders. In this keynote he will argue that the adipose tissue is not only an unfairly blamed innocent bystander in the war against obesity, it is actually the first line of defence against our caloric imbalance which is the thing really making us sick.

📝 This event is supported generously by Dr Barry Catchlove in memory of his son, and was established to educate and inform the wider community about global health issues, developments, and discoveries.

‼️ Full details + register ➡️ cpc-comms.sydney.edu.au/link/id/zzzz68…

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