Photo credit: Alexandra Gieb
Photography students from the Queensland College of Art have turned their lens on Roma, revealing the people and landscapes that make up the small country town.
Photo credit: Levi Bell
Six hours drive west of Brisbane, Roma is the gateway to the Outback and Carnarvon Gorge, famed for its cattle saleyards and country hospitality.
Fourteen photography students spent a week in Roma as part of an in-field excursion to explore regional Queensland – a program the QCA has run for the past 25 years.
The theme of this year’s project was “Community Life: An Inner Perspective, Connecting through Story”.
The result is a stunning documentary photography exhibition, “Roma Revealed”, on show at the ABC Studios at South Bank until 17 August.
Students captured a range of stories, including life on the land, the Men’s Shed and the local knitting circle.
Photo credit: Emilie Ledwidge
Bachelor of Photography student Emilie Ledwidge, who spent several days photographing the
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Musical theatre students wow at the Powerhouse
Musical theatre stars from the Queensland Conservatorium are wowing audiences with a sell-out winter season at the Brisbane Powerhouse.
Final year triple-threats have wowed audiences at the iconic arts venue with two acclaimed productions: a musical re-imagining of the beloved literary classic, Little Women, and the classic Broadway smash, Company.
Jerrod Smith is one of the actors playing the lead in Company – a part he describes as “a dream role”.
“I’ve really fallen in love with the character, it’s been an amazing experience to be playing the lead in a production like this,” he said.
“Being at the Powerhouse also offers us great exposure – it’s not just family and friends along to see these shows, they both sold out before the cast was confirmed.
“I think productions like this offer audiences the best chance to see students at the final stage of their training right before they head out into professional roles.”
Fellow final-year student Hannah Bennett
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.
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
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
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
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
Griffith awarded over $8 million in research funding
Four Griffith University researchers have been announced as 2018 Australian Research Council Future Fellows. The University has also been awarded funding for one 2018 ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub.
The projects form part of the $180.4 million worth of national funding announced today by Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham.
Dr Mirko Lobino
Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Ned Pankhurst said the grants were a great honour for the researchers and the University.
“I congratulate the researchers for winning this support against tough national and international competition,” Professor Pankhurst said.
“The research projects are providing solutions to major national challenges and we are delighted to receive this major funding support from the Federal Government.”
Dr Eric Cavalcanti was granted $878,125 for the project Fine-tuning the Quantum: Foundations and Applications of Quantum Causality, which will be hosted by the Centre for Quantum Dynamics. The project aims to investigate the nature of causality in the quantum world.
Associate
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
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