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What do an Olympic gold medallist, State of Origin great, former New Zealand rugby league representative, and the Queensland Academy of Sport performance coordinator think about the future of sport in Logan?
Griffith Business School is hosting a seminar focussed on growing the city’s sporting excellence, and they’ve enlisted some of the world’s best to help.
Dr Caroline Riot, Griffith Business School
To be held at the Logan campus on Tuesday July 4, the seminar will feature conversations around talent pathways, and look at building resilience in athletes and players.  
Speakers include:

Michael Hancock, Queensland State of Origin great and current Game Development/Community Officer with the Brisbane Broncos
Naomi McCarthy, Olympian and Manager of Griffith’s Sport College
Sione Faumuina, former NRL and Kiwi-League International and TSP coaching business owner
Lawrie Fabian, Senior Performance Services Coordinator with the Queensland Academy of Sport
Caroline Riot, Director of Engagement with the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management

Dr Caroline Riot

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Principals should lead the way in adopting a whole-school approach to the education of all students, including those with autism and other disabilities.
According to autism expert Professor Jacqueline Roberts, Director of Griffith University’s Autism Centre of Excellence, it is essential for principals to lead the training of teachers about autism and spread that knowledge throughout the school.
“Essentially, we think all children have a right to be educated in school and optimally children are best educated with their peers,’’ Professor Roberts said.
Professor Jacqueline Roberts
“For the vast majority of children with disabilities including children with autism, mainstream education remains the best setting for them.
“That’s where they are going to learn the skills that will enable them to participate in society, to have jobs, to learn how to engage and mix with other people.”
While acknowledging that some children with disabilities may need a more specialist setting, she said autism educators hoped mainstream schools would become better

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Griffith Business School has held its own on the international stage, earning a top 10 place in Hospitality and Tourism Management in the latest university rankings.

The field was rated second in the world in the ShanghaiRankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017.
Professor David Grant, Pro Vice Chancellor (Business), said he was delighted with the recognition awarded by this prestigious, independent organisation.
“The number two ranking reflects the high calibre of work being produced by both the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, as well as the Griffith Institute for Tourism.
“It’s the result of both their recognised thought leadership in this field and their ability to influence practice,” he added.
The School also ranked in the Top 100 internationally and third in Australia for Political Sciences, Top 200 for Business Administration, and Management, while Economics moved into the Top 300.
Professor Grant said: “This is not only an indication of the excellent quality of the research

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Griffith University students have proven they can hack it with the country’s best in this year’s Cyber Security Challenge.
Gold Coast based Bachelor of Computer Science students Lachlan Ashcroft, Lee Goymer, Thomas Csere and Christopher Skorka were the top-ranked first year team in Australia, placing them fourth overall. 
The hacking competition is run by an alliance of Australian Government, business and academic professionals and aims to unearth future talent in the cyber-security sphere.
Griffith’s Cyber Security Challenge team in action.
The Griffith University team spent the competition’s designated 24 hours in an otherwise empty room on campus, surviving on just two hours sleep as they tried to fend off cyber attacks.
“I wouldn’t say it was stressful, but it was difficult,” said Thomas Csere. “We each played to our strengths on the various challenges.”
For team captain Lachlan Ashcroft, it was a chance to gain first-hand experience of a potential career path.
“We all wanted to be

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Griffith University continues to cement its place among the word’s best, with a top 10 result in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Griffith placed second for Hospitality and Tourism Management, and ranked in the Top 50 for Law, Nursing and Marine/Ocean Engineering.
The university ranked 9th in Australia for the number of subjects mentioned (30) and had eight subjects featured in the Top 100.
“The Shanghai Subject Rankings result represent continuing very strong outcomes for Griffith University across a range of ranking schemes,” said Professor Ned Pankhurst, Acting Vice Chancellor.
“To be placed ninth in Australia, in terms of subjects mentioned, with eight of those in the Top 100 is truly a remarkable achievement, but it is also a testament to our dedicated staff and students, and Griffith University’s overall commitment to excellence.”
More than 4000 universities were listed in ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.

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The thin green strip of mangrove wetlands around the tropical coastlines of Australia and the world are the most carbon-rich forests on earth but they are at risk.
Professor Rod Connolly, a marine scientist from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute, is the co-author of new research that shows the vast reserves of carbon being sequestered by mangrove forests.
“This is the first comprehensive assessment of mangrove carbon stocks, country by country around the coastlines of the world”, Professor Connolly said.
Mangroves and other coastal plants use atmospheric carbon to grow. Some carbon is locked up in their trunks, branches and roots. But even more is isolated in the forest soils.
The deep muddy soils that mangroves live in provide ideal conditions for preventing decomposition of carbon and thus keeping it locked up for millennia.
A new paper, Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses published in the journal Nature Climate Change, identifies areas of

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By Dr Samara McPhedran, Senior Research Fellow, Violence Research and Prevention Program and Dr Li Eriksson, Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University.
The recent murder of Queensland policeman Brett Forte rightly received considerable public attention. But unless a man’s death occurs in extremely tragic and unusual circumstances, male victims of homicide often seem to receive less attention from policymakers, the media, and the wider public than female victims.
When we think about prevention, we tend to focus on trying to tackle uncommon situations – such as “one-punch” deaths – rather than looking at the bigger picture.
Discussions of men and homicide (murder and manslaughter) usually centre on men as perpetrators, rather than victims. But even though males represent around half the population, they account for about two-thirds of Australian homicide victims.
This over-representation of male victims occurs across many countries.
 

Source: Australian Institute of Criminology Get the data

Who is a ‘typical’ male homicide victim?

A “typical” Australian male

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The troubled state of the Tasmania’s education system has been known for some time. What is less known is the role Griffith University is playing in helping the state and its schools turn the situation around.
Professors Tony Townsend and Greer Johnson from the Griffith Institute for Educational Research and Anne Bayetto from Flinders University have partnered with Tasmania’s Department of Education for a large-scale project to deliver professional development to school leaders with Griffith’s Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program.
PALL is a unique University/industry partnership because its genesis came from industry seeking a solution. The Australian Primary Principals Association originally engaged Griffith researcher, Professor Neil Demspter, to develop a program designed to help principals lead literacy reforms in their schools in 2009.
The PALL solution helps school leaders develop literacy intervention activities, based on their better understanding of the processes involved in learning to read, better use and analyses of data,

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New virtual-reality technology and 3D printing techniques will create ‘digital patients’ to improve surgery for Queensland children with orthopaedic deformity.
This is the way of the future with new Australian-first work from Griffith University showing that virtual technology techniques can guide the way for orthopaedic surgeons to more accurately plan and undertake their surgery.
Aided by a $300,000 Advance Queensland Fellowship and working in collaboration with the Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Dr Chris Carty from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland is at the forefront of the work, which aims to provide orthopaedic surgeons with the ability to provide personalised patient solutions including better surgical results and enhanced post-operative function.
“The personalisation of the ‘digital patient’ represents a step change in the treatment of children with lower limb deformity,” says Dr Carty. “Current treatment involves consultation with a doctor, then surgery followed by evaluation.
“Unfortunately the current methods ignore the fact that

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Griffith University has played a major role in the launch of an international mentoring initiative aimed at enhancing research and networking capabilities for Australian alumni.
The Alumni Professional Development Program (APDP) is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is led by Griffith University’s International Business Development Unit in a consortium with Charles Darwin University (CDU) and James Cook University (JCU).
APDP kicked off in Indonesia in May with interactive mentoring workshops in Jakarta and Makassar. Griffith University Adjunct Professor Colin Brown and CDU Associate Professor Greg Shaw presented mentoring principles to participants including high-achieving Indonesian research experts and business and community leaders.
The skills attained at the workshops will be applied towards advancing research and networking capabilities among Australian alumni mentees.
Griffith’s project team — Alumni Engagement Coordinator Ms Anni Bohn, Administrative Coordinator Ms Sharm Aboosally and Systems Specialist Ms Nicole Graham — presented on APDP expectations, online collaboration and the

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