Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
In migration contexts from economically developing countries to developed nations, it is often the men who assume the role of primary applicants, even if the women’s qualifications or experiences generate substantial income. Women frequently migrate to maintain family unity rather than to advance their own financial standing or develop careers.
The Making Tracks in Children’s Health (MaTCH) project is working to co-design a health service to address weight management in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families. Funded by a Woolworths Nutrition-Related Health Services Research Grant, the project brings together the Queensland Health departments (Child and Youth Clinical…
The First Peoples Health Unit held a competition for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community members and Griffith Students. The theme of the competition was ‘Health and Healing’. The awards evening held at HOTA, Home of the Arts in the Gold Coast was a fantastic celebration of First Peoples…
The primary goal of this program was to produce PNG counselling graduates with culturally effective professional knowledge and skills, as part of a broader response to address wide-ranging, prevalent individual and social problems in PNG e.g., family and sexual violence, trauma, disability, childhood abuse. I led a team, collaborating with…
The research I led into counselling provision in Papua New Guinea has positively changed the way counselling is practiced in a country that has never had a greater need for skilled and knowledgeable counselling practitioners. Finding that PNG ‘barefoot counsellors’ lacked the basic knowledge and skills needed for effective counselling,…