Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2024, Griffith University hosted the 2024 Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef Symposium over three days 11-13th September. This symposium brought together a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. It highlighted diverse stories of the Reef and its peoples, unpicked moral dilemmas around decision-making in an uncertain…
We have developed a Repair Cafe initiative within our Griffith University. Griffith Uni has 5 campuses and we are offering Repair Cafes (with over 153 staff and students and community members who have signed up to volunteer). The aim of the project is to promote and elevate the…
The Australian Repair Summit is an annual national Summit that brings together a wide range of stakeholders interested in or working in the repair sector, who genuinely want to engage in open and respectful dialogue; with industry, other sectors and the community at large about the legislative and policy changes…
1. Identify barriers and motives for each stakeholder to understand the factors that would facilitate changes to current practices for low valuable plastic waste management. 2. Explore how to introduce a new waste technology that could convert low valuable plastics from Cibubur East Jakarta City into an energy source.
This opportunity assessment (OA) will review the potential to maximise the benefits of improved energy technologies for Australian homes directly; and for providing grid support and the potential for smart algorithms, to assist customers to optimise energy choices.
Reducing emissions from restaurants is imperative to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Offering plant-based meats can reduce emissions from restaurants. This research identifies barriers preventing restaurants from offering plant-based meat dishes and segments restaurants based on identified barriers.
Switch Your Fish was a short campaign to challenge recreational fishers on the Sunshine Coast to enjoy a different range of fish to eat. The different species were Mahi Mahi, Cobia, and Amberjack; and the campaign was designed to take the pressure off other species including Snapper and Pearl Perch.
More than 350,000 chemicals and mixtures are currently registered for commercial use, ranging from pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, fire retardants, industrial compounds, and more. After use, many of these chemicals end up in the environment, whether from wastewater discharges, surface runoff or other point and non-point sources. Yet less…
Microplastics are small plastic particles…
Human activities release large quantities of wastewater to rivers and oceans. This wastewater often contains toxic chemicals, which can adversely affect living organisms. Our current methods to assess the toxicity of wastewater effluent are relatively insensitive and expensive, which means that monitoring is only infrequently conducted and is not protective…