Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals
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…
Griffith Business School supported 19 students and alumni to attend the Young Professionals Forum as part of the 2023 Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors Forum – Shaping Cities for our Future.
The project aim is to design a commercially viable tabletop boardgame which engages and entertains players while educating them about the challenges and trade-offs involved in designing future resilient cities. The game can also be incorporated into co-design toolkits for use in community consultation processes. The project also explores the…
The Australia Awards Renewable Energy Short Course aimed to contribute to the shared ambition of Australia and Indonesia to cooperate more closely to enable transition to lower emission economies and understands that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge. Twenty-five participants from across Indonesia joined course leaders Associate Professor…
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…
Funded by the Australian Government’s Water for Women Fund, the research was undertaken from January to December 2022. This study aimed to provide regionally appropriate evidence about what kinds of processes and systems could be explored within different urban contexts in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The…
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,…
This program acknowledged the shared ambition of the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy to enable energy cooperation as an important pillar that will contribute significantly to the two nations’ growth of commercial and investment turnovers. Course Designers developed a program addressing the energy industry related areas of technology, economics,…