A career in speech pathology or child psychology is the fuel for study for Honours student Erin Condrin from Southport.
The Bachelor of Psychological Science student has just started her first year at Griffith, having coming straight from AB Paterson College, and says she is loving the student life and the chance to study as part of its prestigious Honours College.
“I always love to challenge myself and keep myself busy. The opportunity to join the Griffith Honours College was a goal for me due to the opportunities available for members,” says Erin.
Designed for outstanding Griffith University students, its Honours College provides students with enriching experiences in combination with undergraduate degree studies.
But life isn’t as straightforward for Erin as it is for her fellow students. Erin is a wheelchair user who has the genetic condition Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare condition which affects the connective tissue, primarily the skin, joints and blood vessel
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Griffith gives back for World Malaria Day
Do you know when malaria was eliminated from Australia or how many deaths were due to malaria in 2015?
While malaria is not a disease most Australians need to worry about, every day more than 1000 African children die from this devastating disease.
Australia has a long history of contributing to global malaria research efforts and Griffith University researchers are at the forefront of this area.
To acknowledge World Malaria Day this week, our researchers are encouraging the public to think about this disease and “to recognise that we are all a part of the solution”.
As Queensland’s leading malaria research university scientists from the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and the Institute for Glycomics are committed to achieving a world without malaria through drug discovery and vaccines.
To help get their message out, GRIDD researchers have put together an online quiz asking people how much they know about malaria.
“Most people don’t know that
Picker, Packer, Delivery Driver Required – Brisbane Market QLD
The Wholesale Fruit Company require a mature & reliable picker, packer and delivery driver. Fruit & vegetable experience is essential for this…
Social support vital to improve lifestyle and eating choices
A study into the behavioural habits of people undertaking a well-known weight management program has found social support plays a crucial role in positive outcomes
Social marketing researchers from Griffith University looked at the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation program and collected responses and data from 594 participants who undertook a 12 week digital commercial lifestyle challenge.
The research focused on the new behaviours and changes adopted by the program’s members during the three month challenge.
The program incorporated evidence-based behaviour change techniques that are influenced by a person’s motivation and their environment, as well as their ability to commit to healthy habits.
Results of the study highlight the importance of motivation in weight loss, with participants reporting that they lost weight after implementing the learned habits and changing their mindset.
Social connection plays a major role
Dr Joy Parkinson from Griffith University’s Department of Social Marketing, said a key finding of the study was
Griffith film alumni shine on the international stage
2016 Griffith Film School graduates Shannen Tunnicliffe and Lachlan Morton, and film student Claire Randell’s documentary Wolfe has been selected for the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen.
Wolfe, which recently won a Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, explores a young man’s journey through adolescence with undiagnosed schizophrenia. Randell, the director-producer made the film with Tunnicliffe, producer and Morton, cinematographer and animator.
For more than five decades, Oberhausen has become one of the world’s most respected film events – a place where filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist have presented their first films. It is one of the most exclusive festivals in the world.
Griffith Film School graduate Benjamin Zaugg, along with Daley Pearson who also studied at GFS, have won an International Emmy Award in the Kids: Digital category for Doodles at MIPTV in Cannes, France.
Doodles transforms the drawings from Australian children submitted online into
Queensland Health uses Griffith intern’s work to guide department upgrade
When Hollie Wiseman first applied to be part of Griffith University’s Work Integrated Learning program, she never could have imagined the scale of the project to which she would be assigned.
The former Bachelor of Business student, who majored in employment relations and human resource management had been seeking to expand her business horizons when she applied for an internship with GBS. She was given a choice of projects to work on, and selected the one that interested her the most, only later learning she would be seconded to Queensland Health.
“I was interested in getting some exposure to the HR industry, because my experience was quite limited,” Hollie says. The project was with the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Service (PSQIS) and involved Hollie playing a large part in influencing their future policy.
“They were upgrading their online learning platform,” the HR and Payroll Administrator for Next Hotels explains. “They wanted to
After 25 years of trying, why aren’t we environmentally sustainable yet?
In 1992, more than 170 countries came together at the Rio Earth Summit and agreed to pursue sustainable development, protect biological diversity, prevent dangerous interference with climate systems, and conserve forests. But, 25 years later, the natural systems on which humanity relies continue to be degraded.
So why hasn’t the world become much more environmentally sustainable despite decades of international agreements, national policies, state laws and local plans? This is the question that a team of researchers and I have tried to answer in a recent article.
We reviewed 94 studies of how sustainability policies had failed across every continent. These included case studies from both developed and developing countries, and ranged in scope from international to local initiatives.
Consider the following key environmental indicators. Since 1970:
Humanity’s ecological footprint has exceeded the Earth’s capacity and has risen to the point where 1.6 planets would be needed to provide resources sustainably.
The biodiversity index has
Five minutes with…David Grant
Professor David Grant is the Griffith Business School’s Pro Vice Chancellor, holding executive leadership, management and strategic planning responsibilities for the entire Group. Somewhere amongst this he also (longs to) find time to research into the impact of leadership development and change practices on work and organisation. Somewhat unusually, David looks at these issues drawing on discourse theory and analysis. We stole away five minutes of David’s research time(!) to learn a little more…
In what area/s does your research interests lie?
I have an interest in organisational discourse – how language and other symbolic media influence our understanding of, and the practice of, leadership and change at the organisation-wide, group and individual levels.
Are there emerging or ongoing trends in your fields of research?
When organisational discourse was being established as a field [of research] we spent a lot of time on developing the theory around it. In recent years though, there has
Tourism workforce faces severe headwinds
New research released by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Tourism Working Group (TWG) has revealed the region’s tourism industry is on the cusp of being severely impacted by a shrinking skilled labour force.
The TWG engaged Griffith’s Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and EarthCheck to study the future of the tourism workforce across 21 APEC member economies, including Australia and the United States.
The project entitled, Developing the Tourism Workforce of the Future through Labour and Skills Development, Certification and Mobility in the APEC Region’ is sponsored by Australia and co-sponsored by Chile; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; The Republic of the Philippines; and Vietnam.
Dr Andreas Chai
Growth compromised
Dr Andreas Chai, Director of Griffith’s Economic Analysis Program said while the industry is projected to create 25 million jobs worldwide in the next decade, major challenges exist which could severely compromise growth.
“Without access to a skilled and willing labour force, businesses won’t be able to reap
Will Trump’s new tax system work?
By Professor Sara L. McGaughey, Griffith Business School & Professor Pascalis Raimondos, QUT Business School
The current international company taxation system goes all the way back to 1923 and a ‘Report on Double Taxation’ solicited by the League of Nations. It was a time when the word “wireless” described radio communication and air travel was still not a regular means of transport. Most firms were national, and value chains were concentrated in one place.
The two core principles outlined in the report granted each country the right to tax profits accrued within its own borders, and to enforce arm’s length rules that restrain profit shifting. Nowadays – with more complex ownership structures for multinational enterprises (MNEs), finely-sliced global value chains and production networks, and global firms selling goods from the ‘cloud’ – the effectiveness of these two principles is in doubt.
Nevertheless, they remain the basis of our world-wide corporate income tax system