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Case Officer – Property Administration – Upper Mount Gravatt QLD
Assist Case Managers with new property matters as required including selection of service providers, follow up of submissions, review and drafting of…
Administrative Officer – Nathan QLD
GRIDD seeks an experienced Administrative Officer and the successful applicant will work for Professor Vicky M Avery and the Discovery Biology group. This is…
Alumnus’ work in Japan to impact sustainable future
Dr Craig Cameron, Senior Lecturer with Griffith Business School, recently caught up with former student and GBS alumnus Dr Miwa Nakai in Tokyo, Japan. Miwa talked about her time at Griffith, postgraduate study and her groundbreaking research at the University of Tokyo.
After completing high school in 2004, Miwa worked for two years to save enough money to study abroad. But she had to make two critical decisions about her proposed international study: Australia or the United States? And which university? Miwa chose Australia and Queensland Institute of Business and Technology (QIBT, now Griffith College), impressed by the small class sizes and extensive study support. During this time, Dr John Fan (now a lecturer in Finance at Griffith University) was part of Miwa’s study group at QIBT. As Miwa reflected, having two eventual PhDs from a study group of four was quite an achievement!
Miwa initially intended to study for a
CEO alumnus takes on Griffith students
Former Griffith student Rachelle St Leger knows the value of working for a company who is supportive of your education. The Bachelor of Commerce graduate says she got to where she is today through hard work, determination and the benefit of an employer who provided her with invaluable training while she was completing her degree. And now that she’s Australian CEO for EML, a company that processes billions of dollars per year, she felt the time was right to reach out to Griffith University and inspire the next generation.
“I started working with Myer from when I was about 18, and I stayed there until about 27,” she says. Beginning at the bottom, Rachelle was continually amazed and grateful at how the company valued her input and assisted her while completing her degree. “They just kept investing in me while I was studying, and then they promoted me the day I
Million dollar data labs sheds light on Qld crime
Griffith University researchers are analysing more than one million Queensland crimes to forecast where future crime hotspots are likely to occur.
The research is made possible by an Australian-first $1 million research facility – the Social Analytics Lab (SAL), launched by the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services Mark Ryan and Queensland Police Service Commissioner Ian Stewart APM at Mt Gravatt campus.
The custom-built research facility combines high-performance computing facilities with industry standard security.
It allows sensitive, de-identified administrative data to be stored and studied using advanced analytics to reveal patterns and insights from large complex government agency data.
In one of the first projects to be run in the lab, researchers will use crime data recorded over the past 10 years to identify patterns in burglary and car crime that could inform operational policing.
Predictive policing expert Dr Daniel Birks said burglary and car crime, two types of crime affecting many people, cost
Keeping the Gold Coast’s domestic tourism mojo
It’s time to rethink what the Gold Coast offers to tourists and shift the focus away from the surf and sand.
That’s the view of Professor Susanne Becken, Director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT), and Dr Sarah Gardiner.
Professor Becken and Dr Gardiner argue that if the famed Gold Coast wants to maintain its position as a world class tourist location, more must be done to compete with the ever growing number of worldwide holiday destinations.
In last year’s budget, the Queensland Government announced $33.5 million additional funding for tourism over four years to attract new visitors from Asia. The Coast also benefited from major infrastructure investments, including the extension of the light rail and a range of Commonwealth Games Facilities.
“So, with that tailwind and a globally booming tourism industry, how is the Gold Coast investing in its tourism future?” Professor Beck and Dr Gardiner ask.
“To make informed decisions it is
‘My quadriplegic son is my inspiration’: A mother’s unwavering love
Not for one second did she think twice about what she should do. Her son had sustained a devastating spinal cord injury as a result of a road traffic accident, which had left him without feeling or movement from the chest down. But she knew whatever happened now from then on, she would always be by his side.
It was 2010 and Chithrani Palipana’s 32 year old son Dinesh had his life changed forever. The Griffith University Medical student’s dreams of becoming a doctor were hanging in the balance, and so were the dreams that his mother had for him.
Dinesh’s subsequent struggle to come to terms with life as a quadriplegic; his success in studying medicine and his ultimate triumph in gaining registration as a doctor earlier this year, have been well documented.
But what of Chithrani? She says it’s no coincidence that she is now on a path towards becoming a
How to make sense of fake news
Digital strategies around fake news and spin was the compelling topic for discussion when the Griffith Press Club brought together an expert panel of Kellie Riordan (Content and Digital Strategy, ABC Radio), Simon Elvery (Digital Interactive Storytelling, ABC), Rod Chester (National Technology Writer, News Corp Australia), Jennifer Dudley (National Technology Editor, News Corp Australia) and Kathy McLeish (Journalist, ABC News and Current Affairs). Griffith PhD researcher and journalism graduate, Audrey Courty, set the scene in terms of the challenges facing journalists and editors today with the following introductory remarks.
In the last couple of months since the US election, ‘fake news’ has become big news.
For those unfamiliar with the term, fake news is considered deliberate misinformation or hoaxes dressed up as legitimate news stories.
A new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that in the days just before the 2016 US election Facebook users’ engagement with fake news actually surpassed engagement
Neilson: exciting future for financial planning students
It’s a good time to be embarking on a career in financial planning.
That was one of the key messages delivered during a campus visit by Kerr Nielson and Liz Norman from Platinum Asset Management.
“This is a profession in the making, it’s wide open,” Mr Nielson told students.
As the founder and managing director of Platinum, Mr Neilson was at Griffith University to present eight scholarships on behalf of his company and The Neilson Foundation.
Olivia Tregoning was one of the recipients selected from a highly competitive field.
“I’m so grateful for the opportunity Platinum Asset Management offers us,” she said.
“The chance to meet Kerr Neilson and hear from him is incredible.”
Platinum Asset Management and The Neilson Foundation scholarship recipients for 2017: Mitchell Kelsey, Samuel Russell, Olivia Tregoning, Wesley Hunt, Matthew Tape, Nathan Thomas, Matthew Jones and Diogo Rodrigues.
The partnership between Griffith University and Platinum Asset Management has developed over the past three years.
“And like a good