Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
The Griffith Asia Institute aims to expose students to Asia by developing cultural, political, and economic understanding and awareness. The Griffith Asia Business Internship program, a 20 CP course, is designed to foster personal connections and professional networks across the Asia-Pacific region. The course adds breadth with a focus on…
All activities in the School are aimed at sustaining Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG3) in learning and teaching, research and community and consumer engagement. These activities engage our staff, students, clinical partners, researchers and research collaborators. We promote good health and wellbeing in all partnerships, involving consumers at every stage…
The course introduces students to academic research methods and tools. The emphasis is for students to develop a research project idea arising from the literature inn their field of engineering. In doing so, students must review and recognize the important of the project to humanity through the eyes of the…
This program has delivered training in sustainable tourism is over 200 government, academic and industry stakeholders in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The program involves a three-day pre-course training workshop in-country. Participants then travel to Australia to learn first-hand from tourism experts and operators in Australia about sustainable tourism practices. They…
The global demand for environmental engineers has risen significantly and is projected to continue as governments worldwide face increasing pressure to implement economic development programs that address pollution control and elimination, resource conservation and recovery, and achieving the SDGs. Environmental engineering the pathway to protecting the natural environment and its…
The ethics course covers both the Australian and international Engineering Codes of Ethics. SGD topics include Sustainability, Modern Slavery, ethical manufacture and supply chains.
This course introduces students to hazardous waste treatment and disposal. The contents of the course include an introduction to hazardous waste, hazardous waste generation and characteristics, transportation and storage of hazardous waste, physical, chemical, and biological treatment, thermal treatment and energy recovery, stabilization and solidification, and land disposal of hazardous…
A rising global population and a strong coupling between economic development and consumption have led to the depletion of resources and the generation of waste at an unprecedentedly rapid rate. As the amount of solid waste to be disposed of increases, the number of available landfills decreases, concerns about risks…
Undergraduate course on Catchment Hydrology which is core in BEng (Civil) and BEng (Environmental) Water supply and flood mitigation is taught in the form of flood frequency analysis and flood routing through reservoirs for flood mitigation and sequent peak analysis to ananalyse a water supply reservoir. These are taught and…
Cleaner production and circular economy can bring overlapping benefits to business performance by simultaneously increasing profitability, efficiency, competitiveness, and environmental performance. Harnessing the economics of sustainable consumption and production that can drive these benefits requires expertise in understanding, communicating, and then applying complex ideas and strategies. In this course, students…