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Helping women with Type 2 diabetes to undertake a more healthy lifestyle is the aim of a wellness program developed by Griffith University, and is timely for this week’s National Diabetes Week 2017.
Led by Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland, and funded by Diabetes Queensland, the nurse-led study aims to reduce the significant side effects associated with Type 2 diabetes whilst also reducing the risk of developing other chronic health conditions.
“As part of the Women’s Wellness with Type 2 Diabetes study, women aged 45-65 with this condition are undertaking an evidence-based e-health 12-week lifestyle intervention focusing on diet, exercise and managing side effects of diabetes and its treatment,” says clinical nurse manager Janine Porter-Steele.
“They each receive access to a specially designed website, iBook and hard-copy book providing them with a step-by-step approach to implementing good health practices.
“Throughout the 12 weeks, the participants are guided by an experienced registered nurse to support them in goal setting and maintaining

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Griffith University journalism students are at the forefront of a campaign to improve media representation of people with a disability.
Project Open Doors, which aims to develop positive media reporting around people with a disability, was launched by the Disability Discrimination Commissioner Alastair McEwin on Monday, July 10.
Project coordinator and journalism lecturer Faith Valencia says the goal of the project is to change the way people with a disability and their families, carers and support workers are represented in the media.
“The common media stereotypes of reporting of people with a disability can be to portray them as victims or villains. Often reporting is patronising and deficiency-based. People are cast as ‘others’ if they are even noticed at all,’’ she said.
As one in five Australians has a disability – be it physical, sensory, psycho-social or cognitive – Ms Valencia said there is a real need to challenge the perception of disability as ‘suffering’ and

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As a PhD candidate, Dr Katie Hail-Jares’ days were pretty normal—teaching, writing, and reading—but her nights were more unconventional. For five years, Dr Hail-Jares volunteered with an overnight syringe exchange, driving around Washington, DC to distribute condoms, syringes, and hot chocolate to people who used drugs and street-based sex workers.
That volunteer experience inspired Dr Hail-Jares, now a post-doctoral research fellow with the Griffith Criminology Institute, to pursue epidemiological criminology. “That is a fancy way of saying I am interested in how criminalising behaviour impacts health outcomes for different people.”
During these outreach shifts, Dr. Hail-Jares was especially interested in how street-based sex workers navigated and pushed back against the policies introduced to make them less visible. It was this first-hand experience that formed the basis for her new book Challenging Perspectives on Street-based Sex Work.
Dr Katie Hail-Jares
Edited by Hail-Jares, Corey Shdaimah (University of Maryland), and Chrysanthi Leon (University of Delaware) the

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A Griffith University Adjunct Professor has become the first non-American to receive a distinguished award for services to cyber security education.
Professor William Caelli, who has been a Griffith Adjunct since 2008, was awarded the Founders’ Medal by the Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE) in Las Vegas in June.
The award recognizes Professor Caelli’s more than 40 year contribution to cyber security education internationally.
“It’s a great honour to be recognised, as an Australian, for my work in cyber security education and training.”
In 2003, Professor Caelli was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his services to the Information and communications technology (ICT) industry and education in information security.
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Often called on by the media for his expertise, Professor Caelli said Australia, like all other nations, has an urgent and vital need to further cyber security education.
“Griffith’s Bachelor of Information Technology is at the cutting edge in IT security teaching students best practice

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