Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Cities and Communities

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

IWC/AWA Team Leadership Course

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

This course aims to provide water professionals with a modular, online training course to build understanding, skills and confidence in the following areas: • Building the capacity of new team leaders through understanding key leadership methods and principles. • Awareness of the methods and principles of leadership development… Read More

The Pathway Program

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The purpose of the three-level Pathway Program is to provide an easily accessible, foundational leadership development program for water professionals and practitioners to strengthen their ability to exert influence and drive positive change in their projects and workplaces, and to address our most significant water-related challenges. The Pathway Program… Read More

Water Leadership Program

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The Water Leadership Program (WLP) is an award-winning program that helps emerging leaders to develop the ability to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects – abilities associated with the most effective integrated water management leaders. The WLP is a feedback-intensive, 10-month professional development program, underpinned… 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

Supporting decentralised rural water supply in Pacific islands: formal and informal networks to support Pacific rural Water Committee engagement with water resources

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Using both formative and action research combined with regional knowledge sharing opportunities (two peer-to-peer learning exchange events), this research seeks to better understand ways that government and civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in the WASH sector can leverage formal, as well as emergent and informal networks, to further support and… Read More

Inclusive urban WASH in Melanesian Pacific – influencing and strengthening systems for climate-resilient WASH in urban underserved settlements

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The regional research project focuses on enhancing climate-resilient WASH services in urban informal settlements in PNG, Fiji and Vanuatu through trough the development of decision and planning support systems, citizen science for localized climate insights, advocacy methods, and engagement with settlement residents in collaborative planning. The goal is to understand… Read More