10 Reduced Inequalities
Peer support helps ease the pressure after suicide attempts
A previous suicide attempt remains the strongest predictor of future death by suicide, but researchers have discovered that peer support following an attempt can have a remarkable impact on reducing risk.
1 No Poverty
Sex, labour, and financial exchange in couchsurfing
Couchsurfing is a growing form of homelessness in many countries including Australia, however, new research suggests it is especially common within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community.
Centre for Mental Health
Improving lives of Parents Under Pressure
Families with substance-misusing parents typically experience multiple adversities that can lead to detrimental child outcomes, but a Griffith University-led program has been creating positive change.
Architecture, construction and planning
Griffith Honours College students awarded New Colombo Plan Scholarships
Eleven Griffith students are headed on overseas adventures after being awarded scholarships to work and study internationally under Australia's New Colombo Plan.
Arts Education Law
Action and accountability key for Griffith COP27 delegates
Griffith researchers in tourism, climate adaptation and climate science to present key reports and take part in global discussions.
Corporate
Griffith University achieves a stellar outcome for sustainability
Griffith University has been ranked 66th globally in the inaugural QS Sustainability Ranking 2023 including first in Queensland overall, and 6th in Australia for its efforts in sustainability.
Alumni
Griffith grads honoured with prestigious scholarships
A Griffith University doctor who hopes to prevent sight loss in rural and remote communities in Australia will head to Oxford University after winning a prestigious World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship.
Corporate
Strong gains for Griffith in 2022 QS World University subject rankings
Griffith has improved its position in all five broad subject areas ranked by QS in its annual World University Rankings by Subject evaluation.
Arts Education Law
Creative writing lecturer wins international poetry prize
Dr Anthony Lawrence has won Australia's most lucrative poetry prize.
Arts Education Law
Student mobility rebounds with New Colombo funding
Griffith students will finally return to the Indo-Pacific after COVID-19 forced New Colombo Plan Mobility Program internships and exchanges online for two years.
Arts Education Law
Launch of world-first app to combat domestic violence
Griffith University’s MATE program has developed a world-leading smartphone app designed to help prevent domestic and family violence.
Architecture, construction and planning
2021 Vice Chancellor’s Gala Award winners celebrated
Griffith has recognised its best and brightest researchers, professional and support staff plus teaching excellence at a gala event in Brisbane.
Arts Education Law
Keeping First Nations languages alive through song
Candace Kruger has been commissioned to create a song in language for the country's largest virtual orchestra.
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Return to work hampered by stigma and lack of support
Twin Griffith-led reports recommend changes to return to work practices.
Arts Education Law
Amy gets to the core of quality in dietetics to win Griffith 3MT final
Communicating a thesis on complex adaptive systems theory in just three minutes is no simple task, but Amy Kirkegaard did it in style to win the Griffith Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Friday.
Architecture, construction and planning
Experts say everyone needed to battle climate change
From baristas to barristers, Griffith University experts insist it will require the efforts of people from all walks of life to fight climate change.
Arts Education Law
The healing power of song
Griffith student Jenna Robertson is producing an opera about devastating bushfires that ripped through the Gold Coast hinterland in 2019.
Arts Education Law
Gender violence expert appointed to government taskforce
Professor Patrick O'Leary has been appointed to the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce.