Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
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…
Late in 2022, Griffith University launched a new Containers for Change collection program across its Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Each bottle donated through the Containers for Change collection bins will raise funds for Griffith’s Brighter Futures Scholarship Program.
Griffith University Women in Engineering provides support and development for women in engineering and other STEM fields through networking, mentoring programs, school outreach workshops, professional development events and industry engagement, and social events.
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…
The Media Benchmarking Study in Australia program assisted mid-career journalists in learning about Australian public policy as well as build linkages and undertake cultural activities to deepen their understanding. The presentations and site visits in the program were designed to expose the participants to a range of government organisations, newsroom…
The Media Benchmarking Study in Australia program assisted mid-career journalists in learning about Australian public policy as well as build linkages and undertake cultural activities to deepen their understanding. The presentations and site visits in the program were designed to expose the participants to a range of government organisations, newsroom…
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…
This book focuses solely on SDG#4: Quality Education. SDG#4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, and this book provides insights into how businesses take action on the SDG through the work of their business. Family businesses play an important role…
We have established the Griffith University Repair Cafés Initiative. As part of this program, we have run 4 successful Repair Cafes on Griffith University campuses. These are now part of the AustralianRepair Cafes network -which consists of over 104 repair cafes . Repair cafes are part of a growing grassroots…
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…