Griffith students enhance Southern Gold Coast

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Griffith marketing students have developed concepts to help enhance the southern Gold Coast region, with the best winning $1000 and top marks. First year Introduction to Marketing students were asked to develop a concept to rejuvenate the Southern Gold Coast region as part of Griffith’s Get Marketer Challenge competition, hosted by Gold Coast City Council […]

Computers help Afghan journalists

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A donation of 12 computers by Griffith University will go a long way in Afghanistan, even helping freedom of the press. Photojournalist and Queensland College of Art alumnus Travis Beard, who helped facilitate the donation, works for the Aina Media Centre in Kabul where he trains photojournalists. Aina is the first Afghan photojournalism agency and […]

Outstanding alumnus announced

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The Honourable Judy Spence took out the crown as the inaugural Griffith Business School (GBS) Outstanding Alumnus, announced at the GBS Alumni Network Dinner, held at the Stamford Hotel, Brisbane on Friday night (October 26). Griffith Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Professor Michael Powell said the GBS had created the award to recognise the remarkable achievements […]

Wrong side of the digital divide

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As the western world moves into an information age experts from around the world are getting together to develop strategies to ensure developing countries don’t get left behind. Experts will gather at the 5th World Association for Sustainable Development Conference (WASD), jointly hosted by the Griffith Asia Institute and the Griffith Business School (GBS), in […]

Aspiring copywriter wins national prize

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Griffith University media communications student Rachelle Boyle has taken out the top gong in Australia’s Toughest Brief competition. The competition asked entrants to create advertisements that would inspire people to become politicans. The aspiring copywriter beat more than 90 creative executions with her ad featuring the tagline ‘Some people grumble, others rumble.’ “I wanted to […]

Research busts whistleblower bad treatment myth

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The age-old adage of most public sector whistleblowers being shunned and tormented by their peers has been disproved, according to the results of a major national study headed by Griffith Law School Senior Research Fellow Dr AJ Brown. The results of the Australian Research Council-funded Whistling While They Work project will be released today at […]

The war on terror

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A standard critique of the Bush administration is ‘The War on Terror’ is a misnomer – wars are fought against enemies, not tactics, says Griffith Asia Institute Director Professor Michael Wesley. Professor Wesley, who will speak at a Griffith Asia Institute Research Seminar on Thursday, October 25, said he was not so sure the critique […]