Posted by Danny Clayton

The Centre for Governance and Public Policy (CGPP) has again been successful in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Scheme. In December 2022, the ARC awarded two grants to CGPP members. Associate Professor Huiyun Feng, Professor Kai He & Associate Professor Gloria Ge were granted $171,550.00 for the project Discerning China’s Foreign Policy Playbook: […]

The Griffith Asia Business Internships Program, also known as ‘GABI’, kicked off once more in November 2022 with a total of thirty students diving straight into an exciting, international chapter of their time with Griffith! Twenty-eight students participated in in-country internships in Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan, while two students completed remote internships. The […]

In December 2022, Dr Lee Morgenbesser attended the convening and implementation meetings of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, hosted by the European Parliament and the European Union’s External Action Service. Associate Professor Morgenbesser was invited to speak on the problem of “fake election observation” — i.e., where authoritarian regimes recruit individuals and […]

The Centre for Governance and Public Policy (CGPP) annual Book Launch celebrated the publications of 2022 at the Griffith University northern campus. The books of CGPP members Associate Professor Gideon Baker, Dr Steve Feng and Professor Juliet Pietsch, were launched by the Griffith Business School PVC Professor Caitlin Byrne who delivered an insightful reflection on […]

Dr Ellie Martus, Centre for Governance and Public Policy Griffith University, and Associate Professor Fengshi Wu, University of New South Wales, co-convened an international conference this month titled “Environmental Politics under Authoritarian Rule: activism, policy, and governance”. The conference was funded by a grant from the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) with additional funding provided […]

Professor AJ Brown, Centre for Governance and Public Policy (CGPP), convened a webinar on 7 December to discuss the new Australian national anti-corruption commission. Drawing on the contributions of CGPP and other Griffith researchers over many years, the webinar examined key elements of the final legislative outcome on this historic reform – the passage of […]

The Griffith Asia Business Internship Program or ‘GABI’, started in early November, with 31 students kickstarting careers and establishing professional networks in the Asia-Pacific region. After two years of remote global internships, the large majority of interns are again travelling to the Asia-Pacific, including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Convened by Dr Andrea Haefner, […]