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The opportunities for Australians when it comes to doing business in Asia are plentiful. It’s why Griffith Business School has a commitment to ensure their students are fully equipped to thrive in the Asian Market with ease. And participation in the Asia Business Challenge is an ideal stepping stone to prime students for the challenges of doing business internationally.
In June this year, 16 GBS students travelled to Hong Kong to take part in the challenge with students from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a trip that was sponsored by funds from the New Colombo Plan scholarships. The challenge saw students form teams to review a range of small business projects, and prepare a presentation on a startup business that could excel in the Hong Kong market.
Though the Asia Business Challenge provided the focus for the trip, students also made industry visits to companies such as Deloitte, and met representatives from

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In recognition of the offerings, facilities and expertise at Griffith, Swimming Australia’s Michael Bohl OAM, is relocating his high-performance swim squad from Brisbane to the university campus at the Gold Coast.
Further developing and preparing his athletes in the lead up to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018, Tokyo 2020 and beyond, the newly appointed Head Swimming Coach at Griffith said the decision is based on the recognition of Griffith’s outstanding reputation in sports servicing and sport research.
“This facility is amazing and a one-stop shop for an athlete to train, recover, study, get treated and be surrounded by other high performance disciplines of nutrition, physiology, biomechanics, physio etc.”
The squad includes Australia’s most medalled Rio Olympian Emma McKeon, Olympic 200m butterfly silver medallist Madeline Groves and Olympians Georgia Bohl and David McKeon.
“At Griffith Sports College we already support a number of elite athletes across various sporting disciplines, to devote time to training

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A confident Griffith University squad has travelled to Tasmania for the opening game of the inaugural Women’s Aon Uni 7s Series. Griffith face University of Adelaide in Friday’s opener with kick-off at 2pm, in a game which will be livestreamed by the Australian Rugby Union.
Australian Sevens Rugby recruit Demi Hayes will link up with the Griffith team for the weekend, but another elite star Shannon Parry will be absent due to her Wallaroos commitments in Ireland where she helped Australia qualify for the 2021 World Cup before injury interrupted her tournament.
Griffith will also be without Bachelor of Sport Development student Ashleigh Cooksley who picked up an injury after she was originally named among six current students in the travelling squad.
Making history
Lauren Brown (B. Sport Management), Taylor-Adeline Mapusua (B. Popular Music), Laura Waldie (B. Dentistry), Katie Curtis (B. Education) and double degree student Eliza Flynn (B. Exercise Science, B. Psychological Science)

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Cash-poor local councils and developing countries don’t need huge budgets to obtain valuable, continuous environmental data to inform sustainable management policies, new research suggests.
Griffith University’s Dr Jarrod Trevathan and the University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Ron Johnstone are refining a wireless sensor network technology known as SEMAT (Smart Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Technologies) that measures the biological responses to changing environmental conditions.
Dr Trevathan said the SEMAT system used the existing GSM mobile phone network, enabling affordable remote monitoring across vast geographical areas previously almost impossible to reach with other network technologies.
“Data is transferred in near real-time to a cloud-based server and stored in a powerful back-end database management system,” Dr Trevathan said.
“Users can view the collected data in a simple and intuitive web-based user interface which allows them to download the data and also set alerts when certain key environmental conditions occur, such as conditions conducive to algal blooms.”
Dr Johnstone

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When 11-year-old Emma has her mum along to netball games, little do her teammates know that her mum is working to tackle one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Professor Kathy Andrews is a leading biomedical scientist working to save millions of lives by finding new treatments for malaria, but when she leaves the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery at the end of the day she is just like any other parent who has to get the school lunch ready.
Just like other scientists, Professor Andrews is busy with day-to-day life, something she is trying to highlight by demystifying the idea scientists are typically males in a lab, often with a ‘nutty professor image’.
Her first book, My mum is a parasite scientist, is part of a new project called That’s Rad! Science that Professor Andrews developed and leads.

The first three books in the series are partially funded by the Queensland Government under an

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Three female Griffith University scientists have cleansweept a category in the Women in Technology (WiT) awards.

Professors Kathy Andrews, Sally-Ann Poulsen and Dr Lara Herrero are finalists in the Life Sciences Research Leader Award.
The category recognises a research Leader with more than than 7 years’ postdoctoral experience, making a recognised contribution to the field of life sciences research and development.
Professor Andrews and Professor Poulsen both work in the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery at Nathan while Dr Herrero is based at the Institute for Glycomics on the Gold Coast.
The 2017 cohort of WiT Awards finalists is ambitious, accomplished and achieving amazing feats in technology and life sciences.
Now in their 20th year, the prestigious WiT annual awards are about celebrating women who are leaders and experts in their fields, succeeding in traditionally male-dominated technology and life science industries.
“From pioneering medical innovations to leading ground-breaking research and building a business from the ground

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