Month: December 2014

As debate swirls at a state and national level on the most cost-effective way to provide a universal health service, award winning Griffith research has found Australians are clearly averse to paying for emergency health care.

A 2012 report from The Franchise Council of Australia highlights around 700 000 people to be employed by franchises nationally. Interestingly though, only one third of franchisors employed human resources (HR) or industrial relations (IR) professionals, or provided access to such advice for franchisees; nor did they conduct internal audits into how franchisees executed employment […]

Under the banner of the ‘Asian Century Futures Initiative’, Griffith University and Peking University have established a Griffith-Peking University Collaborative Research Scheme to facilitate reciprocal research exchanges and joint funding proposals for the purpose of developing collaborative research. 2014 Collaborative Research Scheme Projects The development of empathy in Chinese and Australian Children Collaborators: Dr Glenda […]

Associate Professor Brydie-Leigh Bartleet from Griffith’s Queensland Conservatorium has been named Australian University Teacher of the Year.

APCSE to screen inspirational film looking at nine lives.

Forty-plus degree temperatures could not keep delegates–including Centre members Kate Shacklock, Georgina Murray, Elliroma Gardiner, and Higher Degrees Research (HDR) students Jessica Blomfield (pictured right), Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh and Vishal Rana–away from the G20 International Dialogue on Women in Leadership held at South Bank, Brisbane on the 16-17 November, 2014. With welcomes from Professor Ian O’Connor, […]

For the sixth year in a row, students from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University have made the incredible 2,484km journey to Tennant Creek in remote central Australia The Winanjjikari Service Learning Program, run in collaboration with Barkly Regional Arts, is an immersive project bringing together students and Indigenous musicians for a cross-cultural learning and performing […]