Internships are a great way to gain valuable industry experience while you complete your degree. At Griffith, each academic area manages targeted work-integrated learning opportunities to ensure students receive appropriate course credits for their efforts. Here, two of our Workplace-Integrated Learning (WIL) program managers share their top tips on making an internship work for you.
Don’t get ripped off as “free labour”
The golden rule is to ensure the dedicated WIL office attached to your school approves your placement, according to Griffith Sciences WIL manager Debra Khokhar.
“We identify and screen placements and manage the process very much like a job application,” she says.
“We meet with industry partners to ensure they can provide the appropriate resources, such as a workspace and a qualified supervisor, so the student has a tangible learning experience and does not just provide free labour.”
Make sure your internship counts for credit toward your degree
Director of WIL for Griffith Business School, Associate
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Asia Business Challenge Students Network To Success
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
High performance swim team moves into Griffith
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
Griffith to set the ball rolling in historic Women’s Uni 7s Series
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)
Scientist shares insight in new kid’s book about bugs!
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
Wireless sensor technology to monitor environments
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
Griffith scientists show research leadership in Women in Technology awards
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
Griffith celebrates diversity with annual Cultural Gala
An international fashion show presenting traditional styles from Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands will be one of the many colourful attractions at Saturday’s Cultural Gala at Griffith’s Nathan campus.
The annual event is set to attract approximately 600 students, staff and community members for a celebration of cultural diversity at Griffith University.
From year to year, the event organisers of the Cultural Gala showcase a number of different types of international cuisines and this year the mouth-watering menu will include gyoza, sweet potato chips, gnocchi, Indian cuisine and deep fried ice cream.
Cultural Gala 2017 – Tickets here
The Cultural Gala will also feature a variety of performances, photo booths and opportunities for guests to participate in dances.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for individuals from many different cultural backgrounds to celebrate, share and discover traditional customs,” Deb de Silva, Clubs Support Officer at Campus Life, Clubs Office, said.
“Just by exchanging hellos or welcomes
Griffith filmmakers showcase talent at BIFF
Five recent graduates from Griffith Film School have made it to the finals of the Brisbane International Film Festival Centurion Short Film Awards.
Griffith Film School alumni took out half of the finals spots and will screen their short films at Palace Centro cinemas tonight.
A platform for emerging filmmakers
Acting Head of Griffith Film School, Professor Trish FitzSimons, said the strong showing at the Brisbane International Film Festival (BiFF) reflected the calibre of talent nurtured at GFS.
“We are very proud of what our students and graduates are producing,” she said.
“It is fantastic to see the Brisbane International Film Festival up and running again, and championing the work of emerging local filmmakers.
“Competitions like this allow the next generation of filmmakers to make industry connections and build a wider audience for their work.”
The films were part of the students’ graduating project and originally screened at the Cannes International Film Festival earlier this year.
A labour of
Griffith’s VR bike to get GC2018 athletes ready
Griffith University will take part in a $100,000 project to develop its virtual reality training simulation designed to emulate track cycling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Leigh Ellen Potter, Director of the Innovative Design and Emerging Applications Lab at Griffith University, said the introduction of this innovative technology would help coaches and athletes explore new areas of performance.
“For cyclists preparing for the Commonwealth Games, it is capable of integrating real and virtual data while providing the sights and sounds of competing at a world-class competition,” she said.
“It creates an immersive, realistic training simulation with real-time feedback to prepare and train elite athletes,” Dr Potter said.
The simulator combines a virtual reality headset with bespoke software and a special stationary cycle to visually experience riding on the 2018 Commonwealth Games velodrome.
Minister Enoch rides the VR bike.
Commonwealth Games athletes helped record the track at the Chandler Velodrome, providing a realistic benchmark and supporting an