Month: January 2008

Enrique Peñalosa is the charismatic former Lord Mayor of Bogota, who transformed a city of seven million from a third-world gridlock of congested streets to a poster child for sustainable cities. Peñalosa’s bold and controversial vision turned a city for traffic into a city for people with a world-leading public transport system, 300km of bicycle […]

How do experts think and how does a novice get to think like an expert? These are the questions Griffith University technology education lecturer Dr Ivan Chester examined in his award-winning PhD thesis. Dr Chester received a Chancellor’s Medal and two university Excellence in Teaching Awards for his research into the development of new teaching […]

A photographic exhibition challenging traditional research methods and capturing the lived experience of those with serious and chronic mental illnesses will be on display at the Queensland College of Art from January 17 to 27. Wounded not Conquered by Griffith University senior lecturer, Dr Juanita Muller, is the culmination of a three-year inter-disciplinary study combining […]

Griffith University graduates Georgina Wind and Zarah Kerley will start their careers fighting money laundering and terrorism financing. The students, who completed a Bachelor of International Relations in 2007, have been offered graduate positions with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), based in Sydney. This is the first year AUSTRAC, Australia’s anti-money laundering […]

Looking at ways to coax female coaches to the elite level has won a Griffith University student a Sports Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) bursary. Bachelor of Sports Management (Honours) student, Jeff Greenhill has been exploring career pathways for female coaches and why improvement strategies haven’t worked. Mr Greenhill is also a […]

Griffith University has made more than 350 offers to New South Wales (NSW) students through the University Admissions Centre (UAC) for the first time. Griffith Academic Registrar Dr Richard Armour said this was the first year students could apply to Griffith’s Gold Coast campus through UAC. “Griffith joined the NSW UAC system this year in […]

A team of students from Griffith University have been named National Winner of the 2007 Austrade Exporting for the Future Export Plan Competition. The Griffith Business School students, Aleisha Norton, Kym Myers, Mark Bagshaw and Jennifer Wood beat more than 100 entries to take first place and $1,000 in prize money at the National Export […]