Month: June 2010

Griffith University celebrates its fourth graduation for AusAID funded Public Health leadership fellows, and its first Asian Development Bank sponsored Vietnamese students, in their completion of the Master of Science in Public Health (International), on 28 June 2010, at the Southbank campus. The graduates completed a dissertation or a small scale public health project addressing […]

Renowned education scholars from across the globe will attend the sixth international Basil Bernstein conference in Brisbane from June 30-July 3. Chair of the symposium planning committee, Professor Parlo Singh, from the Griffith Graduate Research School said the symposium aimed to encourage informed dialogue between academics undertaking research that engages with the work of the […]

Discontentedness between universities and industries was exposed during the 2010 Asia-Pacific Association for International Education Conference and Exhibition at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre held, 14-16 April. A presentation by Bond University PhD candidate Rebecca Biazos and Education 2 Employment (E2E) managing director Brandon Thompson highlighted universities’ struggle to win the skills race. […]

The links between police culture and political power in modern Thailand will be examined at a Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) seminar at Griffith University’s Mt Gravatt campus on Wednesday, June 9. CEPS Associate Investigator Nicholas Farrelly from ANU, will discuss ideas about democracy, law and social order in light of recent […]

According to Griffith University political scientist Dr Paul Williams, the Queensland Opposition’s new-found support is largely due to a crisis in faith for the Bligh-led Labor party rather than any embrace of the Liberal-National party as a credible alternative government. “Yesterday’s state Galaxy Poll revealed a loss of Queensland voters’ faith in Bligh, with the […]

Visiting Canadian Professor Jean Clandinin will present a public lecture entitled ___Composing Lives: Narrative inquiry into the experiences of youth who left school early___, on Monday, June 7 from 4pm-6pm. Professor Clandinin is visiting the Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER) as a 2010 University Sewell Fellow and is Director of the Centre for Research […]