Month: May 2007

Technology Education students will be able to turn their ideas into reality with the opening of a new design centre at Griffith University’s Mt Gravatt campus. The first of its kind in Australian teacher education, the $230,000 Advanced Prototyping Technology and Aerospace Education Design Centre will enable students to produce prototypes for testing and evaluation. […]

Charities, or ‘non-government organisations’ (NGO) are more trusted than politicians, teachers and priests. However their accountability is attracting greater public scrutiny according to GBS Adjunct Associate Professor Jem Bendell. Dr Bendell is the author of the United Nations 2006 Debating NGO Accountability report and spoke at the annual World Assembly for CIVICUS, which is a […]

The desire to work in the fast-paced world of criminology has led Griffith University PhD scholar Rebecca Wickes on a new career path. As a student with psychology and social science degrees in hand, the decision to do a PhD in criminology was a natural progression. “Many of the subjects that I enjoyed most during […]

Australian businesses can leap-frog to the front of the sustainability game according to international sustainable development expert Dr Jem Bendell. Dr Bendell, who was recently appointed as an Adjunct Professor with the Griffith Business School (GBS), said although there had been some pioneering work done by Australian companies like Rockcote, the corporate responsibility agenda in […]

Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor said the public acknowledgement of the University’s responsibility and commitment to provide equitable educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was in line with Griffith’s ethos. “Led by our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee and involving Elders, local community members, and Griffith University staff and students […]

Griffith University Professor Patrick Weller AO said the symposium provided an important opportunity to reflect on changes to Queensland governance since the handing down of the Inquiry report. Professor Weller, who is also Premier of Queensland Chair of Governance and Public Management, said the Fitzgerald Inquiry represented a decisive break with Queensland’s past. “The Fitzgerald […]

Tight budgets, time constraints and competing deadlines are just some of the reasons why film and television workers in Queensland suffer a high rate of workplace injury. According to a new report from Griffith University, sponsored by the Pacific Film and Television Commission, more than half of Queensland film and television workers carry out their […]