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A Social Marketing @ Griffith program designed to reduce household food waste is a finalist in the Australian Marketing Institute’s 2017 Awards for Marketing Excellence.
Waste Not Want Not was designed in collaboration with Redland City Council, who approached Griffith University to conduct a pilot to help reduce food waste in their area – a costly problem both for the budget and the environment.

The average Australian household disposes of over $600 worth of food a year, while Redland City Council estimated 23 per cent of waste in a local household’s bin was food waste.
Consumer insights gained as part of a comprehensive social marketing process showed residents needed a better understanding of what they could make from contents left in their fridge.
Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele, Director of Social Marketing @ Griffith, said they wanted to find a creative way to deliver this information and prevent food waste.

“The Waste Not Want Not pilot partnered

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Congratulations to Griffith University alumni in the running for the prestigious Cosmopolitan 2017 Women of the Year Awards.
Griffith Business School graduates Sarah Schoeller and Marissa Bowden are founders of the now iconic The Village Markets at Burleigh Heads and are nominated in the category of Entrepreneur of the Year.
Sarah told the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper about the origins of the markets nine years ago.
“Marissa and I worked together for a finance company in marketing and we used to talk about how the Gold Coast didn’t have a great fashion market,” she said.
“When we were made redundant (during the Global Financial Crisis) we had some time on our hands. We’d been to some great markets in London and Sydney, so we decided to put our own flair on it and focused on local designers, live music and street food.”
The markets have been a huge success in themselves, and designers among the earliest

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An investigation into the experiences of nurses exposed to shift work is shining new light on coping strategies health care workers go through, and is emphasising the importance of strong front-line management.
Griffith University’s Jane Gifkins, under the supervision of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing’s Rebecca Loudoun, published the research as a result of her master’s research.
“In Australia, with our ageing population and the increase in chronic disease, the healthcare needs of our society are increasing, and nurses need to do shift work to provide 24-hour care to their patients,” Gifkins said.
“There’s a lot of negative impacts working in shifts, for example, It’s well researched, but it’s not generally known in society that for instance, shift work is associated with breast cancer.”
“Obviously the most common complaint for shift workers is sleeplessness, fatigue and tiredness, but in spite of there seems to be a lot of shift workers who are able

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Epiphanies occur at any time. Such is the nature of the concept.
For Griffith University alumnus Judy Staggs, a Brisbane-based former intensive care nurse and now community educator, the moment that changed her life came during the most mundane of activities: housework. 
And while some may question Judy’s belief in what transpired and why, the true measure of an epiphany lies in where it leads and what it continues to achieve.
In Judy’s case, this includes completing a Bachelor of Arts (Modern Asian Studies) and a Master of English as a Second Language at Griffith University, followed by teaching English in China and now doing the same for Syrian and Afghan refugees trying to start new lives in Australia.
But first things first, namely a day in 1978 when nurse and mother of four Judy was doing the housework and listening to the radio news.
“I was washing up and there was a news item

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Imagine applying the rapid advancement of drone technology to guide the future of aviation.
That’s the opportunity for graduates of Griffith University’s new cutting-edge Electronic and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Engineering (UAV) major, according to Associate Professor Steven O’Keefe.
The head of electronic engineering at Griffith’s Nathan campus says the major is offered at arguably the most fertile period in the development of UAV technology.
Available through the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) at Griffith’s Nathan campus, the UAV major offers students the chance to graduate as qualified electronics engineers and certified drone pilots, ready to design and fly the unmanned aircraft of tomorrow.
“Graduates will be equipped to develop advanced new aircraft and systems, as well as the applications they’re put to,” says Steven.
“And UAV design and application will continue to evolve with greater navigational capabilities, greater autonomous ability and artificial intelligence, longer endurance and greater payloads.”

Steven says UAVs—more commonly known as drones—have been quickly

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