Tagged with 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

Australian of the Year among group handed QBR honour

The Gold Coast is celebrating one year until the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018). To mark this special occasion Griffith University joined the communityat a gala event at Surfers Paradise Beach, with appearances from our elite athletes and internship students. Griffith’s new $16 million Aquatic Centre has also been opened as part of thecelebrations. […]

Three Griffith University Architecture students have presented their concepts for overlay design to be utilised throughout the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018). The students presented to an audience of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) staff, including Chief Executive Officer Mark Peters, and other staff that are involved in hosting the world’s media […]

Griffith University and GOLDOC are proving a perfect partnership with a reported 17 per cent of the current Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Organising Corporation (GOLDOC) workforce identified as Griffith University students and graduates. Some of GOLDOC’s most recent recruitments include four Griffith students who had previously undertaken internships with the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth […]

Griffith Business School student Leah Brokmann heads to Singapore next year confident that the life she has known on the Gold Coast for the past two years is about to change. Leah, who has been named one of six 2017 New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholarship recipients from Griffith University, has chosen Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University […]

Students who study aJournalismor Public Relations and Communication degree at Griffith University in 2017 will haveaccess to a range of unique experiences. These experiences include more industry internships than any other Queensland university and exclusive access to opportunitieswith the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC). All these combined with exposure to world-leading teaching and […]

Griffith University science student and Olympian Cameron McEvoy has been named ambassador for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Cameron, who won bronze at Rio in the men’s 4×100 relay, joins hurdles champion Sally Pearson as the second official ambassador for the Games. The announcement was made by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at an official […]