‘Build it and they will come’: the role of employment in making Brisbane a global city

A scene from Brisbane CBD, with lady walking across plaza towards camera.
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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With the November, 2014 G20 meeting done and dusted, WOW’s resident historian, Professor Bradley Bowden, and colleague, Dr Andrea Insch (University of Otago, NZ) set about understanding the role of 34 years’ of rebranding strategy in transforming Brisbane into a global city. But what does this have to do with the world of work you […]

Preparing the Queensland labour force for the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Griffith University’s Departments of Employment Relations and Human Resources; Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management; Accounting, Finance and Economics; the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing; and the Griffith Institute for Tourism recently completed a labour force skills audit and gap analysis for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The […]

Lecture to discuss Games impact, legacy

Runner passing a baton to a man in a business suit
Cities Research Institute
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This month the Gold Coast marked exactly four years until it hosts the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In the Scottish city of Glasgow, the countdown is more pressing. With less than four months before the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Games takes place inside Glasgow’s Celtic Park stadium, a public lecture hosted by Griffith University and […]