Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

QCAD Live Art | Alun Leach-Jones Mural

4 - Quality Education

In 2024 we finalised a six-year-long project to repaint and preserve an artwork that has been in the Griffith University Art Collection since 1979. The second public artwork commissioned by Griffith University, Alun Leach-Jones’s ‘Crossing to Capricorn’ (1979) has been installed in various locations at Brisbane South (Nathan) as the… 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

The SmARTs Program at Logan Campus

10 - Reduced Inequalities

The event was sponsored by the Smith Family’s SmArts program, which aims to raise students’ education by connecting students in years 8 to 12 who are interested in creative arts and was facilitated by QCAD’s Dr Sally Molloy, it was the first time Logan had hosted a SmArts program.

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

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