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The Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme is a platform through which member universities undertake research on matters related to sustainable development, according to an agreed-upon work plan and agenda. The IUSDRP started in 2014 and Griffith joined in 2016.

This project will focus on reducing the Scope 2 emissions from Griffith University’s energy usage by installing 4MW of solar across many rooftops at Griffith University.

This project researches how law enforcement, government and courts have responded to, and are responding to, orphanage trafficking. Orphanage trafficking is where children are transferred or recruited into orphanages for the purpose of exploitation and profit. As the first project of its kind in the world, it is assessing the…

Aviation Reimagined is an annual webinar series featuring industry leaders, policymakers and researchers sharing their insights about a transition to a low-carbon future for aviation. This is the third consecutive year running this successful series, with new speakers and contributors delivering innovative insights from around the world. The webinar series…

The primary goal of this program was to produce PNG counselling graduates with culturally effective professional knowledge and skills, as part of a broader response to address wide-ranging, prevalent individual and social problems in PNG e.g., family and sexual violence, trauma, disability, childhood abuse. I led a team, collaborating with…

The research I led into counselling provision in Papua New Guinea has positively changed the way counselling is practiced in a country that has never had a greater need for skilled and knowledgeable counselling practitioners. Finding that PNG ‘barefoot counsellors’ lacked the basic knowledge and skills needed for effective counselling,…

Staff and student volunteers worked together to organise activities for the public (particulary families with school aged children) at the annual Logan Eco-Action Festival. The activities were to raise awareness about the natural environment, the vital role it plays in human health and what people can do to be more…

I am undertaking my internship with Family Planning New South Wales International (hereafter FPNSW International), a non-government organisation (NGO) that delivers sexual and reproductive health and rights-based programs to Pacific-island nations. FPNSW International has three key program areas: cervical cancer screening program (health focussed), comprehensive sexuality education program (education…

I hosted a Griffith University/Australian Repair Network tent at the Brisbane City Council Green Heart Fair -a sustainability initiative of the BCC and I also presented a session on the Right to Repair movement and Repair Cafes…

The Griffith Climate Action Beacon (CAB) seeks to develop knowledge, leadership, capacity, and responses to enable effective and just action throughout society. CAB conducted the first of five annual Climate Action Surveys in September–October 2021 as part of a longitudinal study to discover Australians’ thoughts and feelings about climate…