Month: October 2011

During a September 2011 fieldwork trip to Jakarta, GAI PhD student Greta Nabbs-Keller was invited by security sector reform analyst, Beni Sukadis, to discuss the Australia-Indonesia bilateral relationship with a group of international relations lecturers from the ‘Veterans’ University (UPN, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional). In a discussion titled ‘Indonesia in Australian Foreign Policy: Rhetoric and Reality’, […]

Aboriginal psychologist Clinton Schultz (pictured)has been appointed to Griffith University’s School of Public Health where he is further developing Indigenous Health as a core subject. The innovative course will be offered as a core subject to Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy and Public Health undergraduates from the first semester of 2012. “It’s about taking a holistic approach […]

The poor physical and oral health of people with a severe mental illness is in the sights of researchers at the Griffith Health Institute. Professor Elizabeth Kendall (pictured) from the Population and Social Health Research Program at Griffith University is leading a study into how efficiently new guidelines for health professionals can be put into […]

A 16-month study of participatory community singing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander choirs throughout Queensland has shown significant improvements in mental health. Loneliness and social isolation eased as a result of community singing, while one participant described how the project enabled her to grieve for the loss of her sister. Another participant lost 33kg […]

Next time you drive along a smooth road in Southeast Queensland spare a moment to thank a team of award-winning Griffith University researchers. They have been working alongside state and local governments for the last 10 years to work out the best way to manage the maintenance of the road networks. Their research has paved […]

The development of a new drug to be used in the war against antibiotic-resistant infections is the expected outcome following a collaboration between a pharmaceutical company, Creative Antibiotics Sweden AB and a leading Griffith University Institute. The new compound, called INP11252 has been identified after a screening project by Griffith’s Eskitis Institute for Cell and […]

Final year medicine student Nick Cocks has the honour of carrying the Book of Remembrance at the third annual Griffith University thanksgiving service this Thursday (Oct 13), and the occasion is not lost on him. The Book of Remembrance contains the names of 75 people who have bequeathed their bodies to Griffith University for anatomy […]