Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Inclusive urban water, sanitation and hygiene in Melanesia – influencing and strengthening systems for climate-resilient WASH in underserved settlements

Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

Inclusive urban water, sanitation and hygiene in Melanesia was a 2-phase research project that explored inclusive and climate-resilient urban WASH in Melanesian informal settlements. The research was led by a partnership of International WaterCentre at Griffith University and The University of the South Pacific in Fiji and Vanuatu, with professionals… Read More

A semi-automated protocol for clustering sound types in freshwater soundscapes (a freshwater soundscape study)

Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

There is a growing need for non-invasive, scalable methods to monitor freshwater ecosystems, especially as traditional approaches struggle to detect subtle or unknown biological signals in complex river environments. This study sought to overcome these limitations and develop a new method for exploring freshwater soundscapes to better monitor river health,… Read More

Water Leadership Program 2025

Learning and Teaching

The Water Leadership Program (WLP) is an award-winning program that helps emerging leaders to develop the ability to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects – abilities associated with the most effective integrated water management leaders. The WLP is a feedback-intensive, 10-month professional development program,… Read More

The Pathway Program: An International Leadership Program for Practitioners in the Water Sector

Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

The Pathway Program is the International WaterCentre’s globally focused water leadership development program. Comprised of three levels, the purpose of the Pathway Program is to provide an easily accessible, foundational leadership development program for water professionals and practitioners to strengthen their ability to exert influence and drive positive change in… Read More

IWC/AWA Team Leadership Course

Learning and Teaching

This course aims to provide water professionals with a modular, online training course to build understanding, skills and confidence in the following areas: • Building the capacity of new team leaders through understanding key leadership methods and principles. • Awareness of the methods and principles of leadership development… Read More

The Pathway Program

Learning and Teaching

The purpose of the three-level Pathway Program is to provide an easily accessible, foundational leadership development program for water professionals and practitioners to strengthen their ability to exert influence and drive positive change in their projects and workplaces, and to address our most significant water-related challenges. The Pathway Program… Read More

Water Leadership Program

Learning and Teaching

The Water Leadership Program (WLP) is an award-winning program that helps emerging leaders to develop the ability to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects – abilities associated with the most effective integrated water management leaders. The WLP is a feedback-intensive, 10-month professional development program, underpinned… Read More

Introduction to Applied Soil Science

Learning and Teaching

This course will provide you with an understanding of the basic science underpinning soil processes, function, and use, and the application of this knowledge to catchment and land management and planning. You will be introduced to the concepts of soil as a system – as an earth material as… Read More

Development of Water Security Engagement Strategy for SPC (Pacific Community)

Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

In the Pacific, the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP) recognizes the importance of strengthening engagement and cooperation in water security as a key determinant of resilience through the establishment of a Pacific Resilience Water Security Technical Working Group (WSTWG) to facilitate multi-sectoral collaboration and engagement. A key objective of the WSTWG… Read More

Supporting decentralised rural water supply in Pacific islands: formal and informal networks to support Pacific rural Water Committee engagement with water resources

Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

Using both formative and action research combined with regional knowledge sharing opportunities (two peer-to-peer learning exchange events), this research seeks to better understand ways that government and civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in the WASH sector can leverage formal, as well as emergent and informal networks, to further support and… Read More