Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Project type Research

Australia Awards Short Course At the Forefront of Film Screening and Directing

8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Future leaders in Indonesia’s film industry joined Course Leaders Dr Dean Chircop, Associate Professor Maragret McVeigh and Ms Martha Goddard for the short course aimed at promoting Indonesia’s creative industry for economic growth, strengthening participants’ skills in content creation, screenwriting, directing, and producing visual media projects. Key learning objectives included… Read More

Decent or Dirty Work? Revealing the Complexities of Employment in Wellness Tourism

8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

This conceptual study critically examines the often-overlooked working conditions within the wellness tourism sector—a rapidly growing industry framed around health, wellbeing, and self-care. Despite its appealing image, the wellness tourism workforce frequently endures precarious, low-paid, and emotionally intensive roles. The project undertakes a narrative literature review to map the complexities… Read More

Taring Padi: Tanah Tumpah Darah

4 - Quality Education

Local Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW invited Indonesian artsworker collective Taring Padi to come to Brisbane to collaborate during a month-long residency on the design and execution of a large-scale banner ‘Ngaliya Budjong Djarra’ (Our Mother Earth) 2023-24, which was displayed on the western façade of Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM). Read More

Read and Publish Agreements

4 - Quality Education

Read and Publish agreements are ‘transformative’ agreements combining the cost of reading (access via subscriptions paid by a library) and publishing (Article Processing Charges (APCs)). Australian academic libraries have adopted these agreements with many publishers. For example in 2022–2023, 20,570 articles were made openly accessible without payment of APCs (Missingham,… Read More

Peak Plastique

13 - Climate Action

Ordinary plastic objects transformed into extraordinary soundscapes. A sonic journey into the world of plastic, featuring 11 exquisite musical compositions accompanied by evocative animations, that explore our complex relationship with plastics. Drawing on decades of sonic curiosity across the fields of classical, jazz and experimental music traditions, pianist Erik Griswold,… Read More

CORE-STEP: Advancing Innovative Knowledge-Based Solutions for Inclusive and Climate Ready Primary Healthcare Systems

17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Primary healthcare centres, known as PUSKESMAS, in Indonesia, are at the forefront of the current climate crisis. CORE-STEP is a collaborative project between Griffith University and Universitas Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh, Indonesia that aims to strengthen the resilience of PUSKESMAS in response to impacts of climate change. CORE-STEP has… Read More

Primary Forests and Climate Program

15 - Life on Land

The Primary Forest & Climate Program is a collaboration among research institutes, civil society organisations, and First Nations Peoples. This program focuses on tackling one of the world’s most urgent challenges, which lies at the intersection of the climate and biodiversity crises through protecting the planet’s remaining primary forests. The… Read More

Autism and school non-attendance

4 - Quality Education

This project includes a series of studies focussing on school non-attendance in autistic children. The overall aim is to develop a logic model of school non-attendance for autistic children. The logic model will be informed through two key elements a) a study identifying the risk factors for non-attendance,… Read More