Sustainable Cities and Communities

This project is a pilot project aiming to create an interactive VR time-lapse video of a mangrove forest from the perspective of its different animal inhabitants. It combines science and animation by embodying the imperceptible “aliveness” of a mangrove forest from multiple perspectives to highlight the importance of the ecosystem. Read More

The Creative Change Project is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship at the Creative Arts Research Institute, investigating the role community music can play in addressing social inequities in Australia. Through our research and partnerships with communities that address social inequities and create music, we aim to map current… Read More

This ARC Discovery project is motivated by the urgent need to improve the environmental performance of tourism accommodation businesses. The aim of the research is to work with a diverse range of accommodation providers to achieve reductions in resource use to mainstream tourism. This will be achieved using an experimental… Read More

This project aimed to advance industry knowledge about the performance of engineered wood products (EWP) mass timber products such as Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) used in mid-rise to tall timber buildings which are becoming internationally popular. With increased building height, these buildings must be designed… Read More

The course introduces students to academic research methods and tools. The emphasis is for students to develop a research project idea arising from the literature inn their field of engineering. In doing so, students must review and recognize the important of the project to humanity through the eyes of the… Read More

The Transport Innovation and Research Hub (TIRH) is a research agreement between the Brisbane City Council (BCC), Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Queensland. The Hub exists is to undertake strategic transport research and development, and build mutual transport capability within the university sector, BCC and… Read More

Sorella’s story is a 360 experience where the movie watcher follows the story of Sorella from a first person perspective wearing individual virtual reality goggles. The project was the result of Associate Professor Peter Hegedus’ investigation on the history of a photography of women and a girl on a beach… Read More

The Transport Academic Partnership (TAP) is a $3.7 million agreement between the Department of Transport and Main Roads, the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Griffith University (Griffith) and University of Queensland (UQ). The TAP agreement aims to build mutual transport capability within the university sector,… Read More

This program has delivered training in sustainable tourism is over 200 government, academic and industry stakeholders in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The program involves a three-day pre-course training workshop in-country. Participants then travel to Australia to learn first-hand from tourism experts and operators in Australia about sustainable tourism practices. They… Read More

‘Towards Our Sustainability Goals’ is the major initiative from the AEL Sustainability Advisory Group to establish a set of guidelines to direct our Group’s activities in relation to events, procurement, and participation in local, national and international initiatives that are assisting global efforts to address climate change. In addition, the… Read More