VR Dreaming transports students 20,000 years to teach traditional health and healing

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Set fireside beneath a magnificent celestial tapestry, a new virtual reality experience from Griffith University’s First People’s Health Unit invites you to listen and learn hands-on about knowledge from 20,000-years ago. Professor James Charles, Director of Griffith’s First People’s Health Unit (FPHU), is honouring the wisdom and work of his Elders this NAIDOC week as […]

Sisters graduate with doctorates from Griffith

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Delighted Brisbane sisters had double the excitement when they received their hard-earned doctorates from Griffith University this week. Dr Hellene Demosthenous and Dr Catherine Demosthenous graduated from Griffith’s School of Education and Professional Studies with guidance from common supervisors. Both agree the support from each other in their academic career has played a critical role […]

Chief named for Griffith Enterprise

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Griffith University’s commercialisation arm, Griffith Enterprise, has appointed a new leader to drive innovation and enterprise. Griffith Enterprise Director Nicholas Mathiou has a track record in establishing and managing entrepreneurial, high growth, technology-based companies. Mr Mathiou co-founded and directed Australian Stock Exchange listed investment fund Medica Holdings Limited and its subsidiary life sciences company Cytopia […]

$450,000 sweetener in colon cancer battle

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UK-based Association for International Cancer Research this week announced it will fund a Griffith University project led by Dr Joe Tiralongo to further develop a potential anti-cancer treatment that had shown promising results in lab tests. The grant will enable the team to test a range of new ‘designer’ compounds on tumours in living cells […]

‘Check ups’ help with healthy relationships

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Early research suggests an online ‘relationship check-up’ may be all many couples need to enrich their relationship. Clinical psychologist Professor Kim Halford has tested a web-based relationship assessment program in Brisbane couples and found many benefited just from the process of going through the questionnaire and the computer-generated report. Professor Halford, Dean of Research for […]

Griffith’s accounting research gains global recognition

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Accounting research at Griffith University has been ranked internationally as seventh in Australia and in the top 100 around the world. The ranking, published in the latest edition of Accounting and Finance, was based on the top 24 accounting journals internationally and ranked Griffith 72 out of more than 1000 institutions worldwide. Griffith Head of […]