Month: February 2008

The Griffith Business School (GBS) Alumni Network is helping people get their finances in check, through their first networking event for 2008. At the Professional Women’s Network Breakfast, Financial Fitness series author and Teachers Union Health Marketing and Business Development Executive Cathy McGuane will discuss tips on managing the money you earn, after having worked […]

The world’s first dedicated police and security research centre was launched at Griffith University today. The Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) is headquartered at Griffith University, in partnership with the Australian National University, the University of Queensland and Charles Sturt University, bringing international focus to the study of policing […]

Historian Jonathan Richards releases his new book, The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police. Henry Reynolds describes Jonathan Richards’ controversial book, The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police, as ‘a major contribution to Queensland and Australian historiography, and to the history of relations between colonists and indigenous people on […]

Professor Anna Haebich launches her new publication, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 With Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia’s Indigenous and ethnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy. Spinning the Dream […]

Progress towards corporate responsibility (CR) is being made, but is not enough to meet the international communities’ goals on climate change or world poverty, according to a new report co-authored by Griffith Business School Adjunct Associate Professor Jem Bendell. Lifeworth’s seventh annual CR review will be released today (February 14) in Manila, Philippines by Associate […]

Researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, Queensland led by Professor Mark von Itzstein have developed a technique to ‘crack-the-code’ of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus. The development was published this week in the world’s leading international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition available here. It will enable influenza virus specialists and drug researchers […]

In a university-sector first, students studying the new Professional degrees at Griffith University are on-campus before trimester one starts and mixing with industry through a professional development program. The new Bachelor of Commerce (Professional) offered in Accounting or Financial Planning was introduced this year in response to industry demand — for more qualified professionals and […]