Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Previously, members of the public were charged a $55 membership fee to join the library. While the initial idea was to waive the fee under certain circumstances, such as for people experiencing hardship, after discussion with Library Management and the Library Campus Services Coordinators, a decision was made to remove…
The book ‘Family businesses on a mission: Attaining the Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education’ focuses on how family businesses on an international basis can align themselves to SDG#4. It features case studies of family businesses from Australia, Algeria, USA and Austria.
Since 2022 Griffith Library has been part of The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Open Educational Resource (OER) Collective. The OER Collective provides a publishing platform, workflows, copyright and resource support and an academic Community of Practice, which enables publication of Open Educational Textbooks at the individual University level…
The overall aim of the activities, “What’s on My Plate for Morning Tea,” “Reptile awareness Program”, “Healthy Lunch Box Week,” “Bucket Filling,” “8 Ways of Aboriginal Knowing,” and “Celebrating Cultural Days in Kindergarten,” was to introduce kindergarten children to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by nurturing five essential attributes/characters…
This Short Course facilitated an exchange of knowledge and lessons learned between ASEAN countries and Australia, including between the two different cohorts. Fifty participants from seven countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam spent two weeks connecting with Australian organisations, analysing data sources to anticipate future skill…
My project aims to build national scale monitoring programs of the wildlife we love (African lions, elephants, leopards etc.). These monitoring programs give us an idea of the pulse of these populations and how they respond to conservation action. A key way to achieve resilient conservation monitoring at scale is…
Community forum to showcase some of the koala-based research occurring at Griffith and initiatives from local and state government.
Queensland College of Art and Yeronga State High School students worked together to create a new painted artwork for the amenities at Yeronga State High School. Through collaboration and conversation during a lively workshop event the final artwork is a co-designed feature that transforms this space into a place…
The Childhood Summit is a bi-annual event, puts children at the centre, augmenting the child-centric conversation, by-in and systemic change for children, with children. This event advocates for the rights of Australian children and promotes children as active citizens.
This book focuses on SDG #4 which focuses on ‘Quality Education’. It is recognised globally that having access to education can be a means by which to get people out of poverty and provide them with a means of socioeconomic mobility (United Nations n.d.). SDG#4 aims to ensure inclusive…