Griffith University will showcase its creative arts offerings at the George Town Festival in Penang, Malaysia, this month.
The Arts, Education and Law Group (AEL) are presenting The Griffith Creative Arts Room as part of the month-long celebration of arts and culture, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. This is the first time a university has been invited to be an official festival partner.
The world-class program offers something for everyone, with an eclectic mix of photography, performance, film and poetry.
Faculty and students from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith Film School, the Queensland Conservatorium, the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, and the School of Education and Professional Studies will represent Griffith University at the festival.
Pro Vice Chancellor (Arts, Education and Law) Professor Paul Mazerolle said Griffith’s involvement in the Georgetown Festival provided a unique opportunity for the University to showcase its expertise and depth in the creative, performing and visual arts.
“Griffith has great strengths in the creative arts, having recently been ranked number one in Australia,” he said.
“The chance to participate in the
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Griffith brings world’s leading design minds to Brisbane
Professor Ming Cheung presenting the QCA bid to host DRS2020
Queensland College of Art will bring the world’s leading design minds to Brisbane, after winning hosting rights for the Design Research Society (DRS) Conference 2020.
More than 600 world-class researchers, academics, designers and students will gather in Brisbane to share insights on design trends, and examine how these impact on the way we live, work and play.
The competitive bid, led by the Queensland College of Art in partnership with the Brisbane Convention Bureau, will see the biennial international conference return to Australia for the first time in 16 years.
DRS2020 co-chair and Queensland College of Art Head of Design Professor Ming Cheung said winning hosting rights for the conference was a coup for Brisbane and Australia’s design research community.
“Hosting DRS2020 will see Brisbane and Griffith University take the lead in promoting excellence in design research,” she said.
“With 600 of the world’s most talented
Treating pre-schooler sleep problems and reducing mental health risk
Improving the sleep of pre-schoolers to reduce the risk of child mental health and academic problems is the goal of a new program by Griffith’s School of Applied Psychology.
Funded by Rotary Health and delivered at psychology clinics at universities in Adelaide, Brisbane and the Gold Coast as part of a research trial, the Lights Out Program is a series of small group workshops for parents of children in the year before they begin Prep/Reception.
The program is delivered across 6 weeks, which includes 5 x 1.5 hour weekly workshops and a personalised, one-on-one phone call check in.
“Sleep problems in the pre-school years represent a risk factor for numerous child mental health problems and academic problems, in the short and long-term,” says study leader Associate Professor Caroline Donovan from Griffith’s School of Applied Psychology.
“The transition to primary school is one of the first developmental challenges that children face, and poor primary school
Awards showcase outstanding Arts, Education and Law alumni
From law and international filmmaking to First Peoples education and fire and emergency services, the 2018 Alumni Finalist Awards showcase the rich diversity of Griffith’s Arts, Education and Law graduates.
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award Finalist
Dean Clifford-Jones is the Principal Lawyer at the office of the Director of Child Protection Litigation. A Bachelor of Laws with Honours and Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Government graduate, Dean was the first person in his family to attend university. He became a judge’s associate just a year after graduating and has achieved remarkable success in the legal profession as a Crown Prosecutor and later as a senior child protection lawyer.
As an active community volunteer, Dean founded Australia’s first LGBTIQ+ legal networking association Pride in Law to bring together the LGBTIQ+ legal profession across multiple disciplines.
Outstanding International Alumnus Award Finalist
Petr Tichý is the CEO and chairman of the board of Barrandov Studios in Prague, one of the biggest and oldest film studios in Europe.
Alumni awards highlight the best and brightest of Griffith Business
The alumni of Griffith Business School are a particularly remarkable group, coming from all walks of life to learn the necessary skills to apply their knowledge in a variety of organisations and industries.
These four finalists in the annual Alumni Awards stand tall among their distinguished peers as representing the best of what our graduates achieve after leaving university.
Outstanding Alumnus Award Finalist
An international strategic business, investment and government affairs executive leader, Amanda Hodges has been taken around the world in her two-decade-long career, which started with a Bachelor of International Business Relations at Griffith University.
Upon completing her studies with Griffith in 1993, Amanda went on to study at both Korea University, in Seoul, and the University of Texas, in Austin. She has been employed by the Australian Government since 1997, holding positions in varied locations such as Sydney, Milan, Atlanta, Istanbul, Dubai, Canberra and Mumbai.
In her role in Seoul, Amanda manages a
Stellar Science graduates to shine at Alumni Awards
From hunting for exoplanets throughout the galaxy to tackling public health threats across the Asia-Pacific region, the 2018 Alumni Award Finalists showcase the rich diversity of Griffith’s Science alumni.
Outstanding Alumnus Award Finalist
Professor Alan Cowman
As a young boy, Professor Alan Cowman was mad about science.
As the current Deputy Director and Head of Infection and Immunity at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), the Griffith University graduate gets to live and breathe his lifelong passion while working towards saving lives from malaria.
Since graduating in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science with Honours under his belt, Professor Cowman has been an integral part of the WEHI laboratory and its focus on malaria, a disease that is responsible for more than 400,000 deaths a year around the world, and aims to develop a vaccine and new treatments.
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award Finalist
Dr Jessie Christiansen has always been a starry-eyed dreamer; she helped start her high school’s first astronomy club.
That early passion for astrophysics
AISRAP partners with ‘lived experience’ advocates to boost suicide prevention
Support groups for people living in the shadow of suicide are beginning to grow around Australia and become more effective advocates.
Advocates in the fields of health and social support often struggle in their early years to find a solid evidence base to guide their growth and programs. In the case of suicide prevention, this can be especially difficult due to the infancy of program development.
Griffith’s Australian Institute for Suicide Prevention (AISRAP) is an important resource for such groups to build a solid evidence base for campaigns or training programs.
These advocates are organisations are representing voices of “lived experience” and is similar to models of consumer advocacy which became strong in the 80s and 90s, especially around mental health.
The Brisbane-based, national organisation Roses in the Ocean was formed in 2008 following the death by suicide of Mark Edwards, a popular pilot whose sister Ms Bronwen Edwards is the organisations founder and CEO. Roses
Awards showcase outstanding Health alumni
From pediatric palliative care and humanitarian dental work to psychological support for First Australians, the 2018 Alumni Award Finalists showcase the rich diversity of Griffith’s Health alumni.
Outstanding Alumnus Award Finalist
Graduating with a Bachelor of Nursing in 1995, Gabrielle Quilliam is an international thought leader in paediatric palliative care and, with her husband, cofounded the
Gabrielle Quilliam
only children’s hospice in Queensland – Hummingbird House. She is a certified midwife, and has worked both locally and overseas. Overseas, she worked for a humanitarian NGO (Medair) as part of a mobile medical response team in South Sudan and Angola. Back in Brisbane, she continued midwifery for a while, and then went on to become a foster parent caring for children with complex needs.
She is a Non-Executive Director of Health Consumers Queensland and a Non-Executive Director of the international charity Butterfly Children’s Hospice. Gabrielle has received a Premier’s Award for her community service and was 2017 Queensland
Students negotiate a winning hand
Mr Omid Haass from the Department of International Business and Asian Studies had his postgraduate students enjoying a game of mix n match cards in their Sustainable Supply Network Management for the Next Decade lecture at the Griffith University South Bank campus. Students learned to apply their communication, strategy, negotiation and problem solving skills by bargaining and bartering their half cards with other groups. Mr Haass said, ‘the team building activity was recommended to me by a colleague and the students found it both fun and enlightening.’
‘The game is designed to hone communication and negotiation skills, and make participants think on their feet.’
Omid Haass uses a card game to engage students’ problem solving skills.
Each small team is given a set of mixed card triangles. The aim is to negotiate and barter with other teams in order to match as many of their cards as possible within the allotted period of
AEL research shines in Three Minute Thesis Heats
Griffith Criminology Institute doctoral student Moses Amagnya took out first place in the Arts, Education and Law (AEL) heat of the annual Three Minute Thesis Competition held at Griffith’s South Bank campus yesterday.
Moses was one of three finalists out of the eleven contestants who will now represent AEL at the university-wide final to be held 13 September.
He was awarded first place in the Higher Degree Research category and the $500 prize with his presentation on corruption in a criminal justice system of a developing democracy, focusing on Ghanaian criminal justice officials.
Second place was awarded to the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre’s Rachel Howley, who received $250. Rachel’s research revolves around the lack of representation of female composers in school music classes.
Griffith Criminology Institute boasted another winner with Gina Masterson taking out third place with her thesis aiming for law reform to assist mothers fleeing domestic violence with their children.
The Masters/Honours category