Griffith University
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Griffith University is a public
, coeducation
al, research university located in the southeastern region
of the Australia
n state of Queensland
. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast
, Logan City and in the Brisbane
suburbs of Mount Gravatt
, Nathan
and South Bank
. Current total enrollment is approximately 43,000 with 4,000 full-time equivalent staff. Griffith University offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees across ten discipline areas including Arts, Education, Business, Health, Law, Engineering, Information Technology, Environment, Music and Visual Arts.
were set aside for a new campus. Initially the site was to be part of the University of Queensland
which was experiencing strong demand in humanities and social sciences. By 1970, a new institution was being mooted. The university was formally founded in 1971 and opened its doors in 1975 to 451 students in four schools: Australian Environmental Studies, Humanities, Modern Asian Studies and Science. The University started with its Nathan campus, and several of its campuses are distinctive for their nature based settings within large urban agglomerations. Buildings were designed to fit into the environment by following the slope of the land and by using architectural means of cooling. The library building was designed by Robin Gibson
and won the first national award for library design. The clusters of buildings, sports facilities, bushland reserves and recreational areas are connected by integrated networks of walking paths. The university was distinguished by its 'problem-based' rather than disciplinary approach to course design and research. The university now has a full suite of programs including arts, education, medicine, dentistry, engineering, business, science, and law.
The University is named after the former Premier of Queensland, and High Court of Australia
justice, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith
, who was also the principal author of the Australian constitution
.
Griffith Business School has international accreditation from AACSB International, making it part of an elite group that makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s business schools.
Home to the Queensland Sports Technology Cluster at the Nathan Campus. An Electronic Sports Engineering degree was introduced in 2009 as a world first.
Griffith University also co-supports the national information and communication technology research centre (NICTA), and is the host of the Sports engineering
group, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster.
and Nathan
, Mount Gravatt and Logan in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and the Queensland Conservatorium and the Queensland College of Art
in Inner Brisbane. The Mount Gravatt campus is also home to the Queensland Institute of Business and Technology
. The Nathan Campus was designed by prominent Australian architect Robin Gibson and was the founding campus of the University.
The university has a campus on High Street, Southport specifically designed and built for Oral Health and Medicine students called the "Centre for Medicine and Oral Health". It contains lecture theatres, cadaver labs, pathology labs and a dental clinic which serves the public. Building has commenced for a teaching hospital
, a new University Hospital at the Gold Coast campus, which is due to open in December 2012 and will replace most functions of the Centre for Medicine and Oral Health.
On the Nathan campus, Campus Life supports many clubs including the long running GRUBS (Griffith University Bushwalking Club), The Karate and Kickboxing club and the Griffith University Aikido
Club, recently incorporated and independent of the University. The Griffith University Rugby Union
Club, established by Phil Verheijen in 2002, were runners up in the Northern University Games in 2005 and are consistently ranked in the top 6 at Australian University Games
. Past captains include Nick Hurrell (2006), who is now an international rugby representative of Hong Kong.
The Griffith University Australian Football Club (GUAFC) is an Australian rules football
club formed in 2001, competing in the AFLQ State Association
. The Griffith University Gladiators finished runners up in two of their first five seasons in the AFLSQ. The club plays out of Griffith's Nathan Campus, which features one of Queensland's leading amateur Australian football grounds with state-of-the-art playing lights and club rooms.
. Unique to the Gold Coast is the Student Guild (GUSG) which represents all students from this campus and holds an administrative structure that is apparently independent to the university.
, Gary Hardgrave
, Julie Owens
(studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Ross Vasta
, serve in the Federal Parliament; Elliot is also the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade. Alumni Brett Mason
serves in the Australian Senate
for Queensland. Five alumni, Aidan McLindon
, Phil Reeves
, Peta-Kaye Croft
, Judy Spence
and Andrew Fraser
, serve in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
; Fraser is also the current Treasurer of Queensland. The current Opposition Leader Brisbane City Council, Shayne Sutton, is also alumni.
Prominent journalists include Liz Cantor
, who is a Seven News
personality and winner of the fifth season of The Mole
. Kieran Ricketts
is a reporter for the ABC
's news/comedy program Hungry Beast
. Karen Tso
is also a television journalist alumni.
In the arts realm, Lucy Decoutere
(actress in the Trailer Park Boys
), Jeong Ryeo-won
, (singer, actress), and Robert Warren (musician) headline the list. Writer David Vernon, as well as photographer Adam Ferguson
, are both alumni, as are models Amanda Ware
, and Paulina Porizkova
(study abroad 1982). In 2011, filmmaker Peter Hegedus
was awarded the Griffith University Alumni Recognition Award for his achievements in documentary filmmaking.
Griffith athletes have starred in professional sports and Olympics. Gold Medal Olympians include speed skater Steven Bradbury
, cyclist Sara Carrigan
, and swimmer Libby Lenton
. Other Griffith alumni include artist and political activist Van Thanh Rudd
, preacher and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic
, educationist James Smith Page
, engineer and entrepreneur Rajnesh Singh
, and birth activist Barbara Vernon
.
Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
, coeducation
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
al, research university located in the southeastern region
South East Queensland
South East Queensland is a region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains approximately two-thirds of the state population...
of the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n state of Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
, Logan City and in the Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
suburbs of Mount Gravatt
Mount Gravatt, Queensland
Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and a prominent hill in this suburb. The suburb is situated in the south-east of the city and was one of Brisbane's largest...
, Nathan
Nathan, Queensland
Nathan is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was named in 1967 after Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Queensland from 1920 to 1926.Nathan is home to Toohey Forest Conservation Park, Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre which hosted the opening...
and South Bank
South Bank, Queensland
South Bank is a cultural, educational and recreational precinct in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The precinct is located in the suburb of South Brisbane, on the southern bank of the Brisbane River.-South Bank Parklands:...
. Current total enrollment is approximately 43,000 with 4,000 full-time equivalent staff. Griffith University offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees across ten discipline areas including Arts, Education, Business, Health, Law, Engineering, Information Technology, Environment, Music and Visual Arts.
History
In 1965, 174 hectares (430 acre) of natural bushland at NathanNathan, Queensland
Nathan is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was named in 1967 after Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Queensland from 1920 to 1926.Nathan is home to Toohey Forest Conservation Park, Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre which hosted the opening...
were set aside for a new campus. Initially the site was to be part of the University of Queensland
University of Queensland
The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
which was experiencing strong demand in humanities and social sciences. By 1970, a new institution was being mooted. The university was formally founded in 1971 and opened its doors in 1975 to 451 students in four schools: Australian Environmental Studies, Humanities, Modern Asian Studies and Science. The University started with its Nathan campus, and several of its campuses are distinctive for their nature based settings within large urban agglomerations. Buildings were designed to fit into the environment by following the slope of the land and by using architectural means of cooling. The library building was designed by Robin Gibson
Robin Gibson
Robin Gibson is an Australian architect, from Brisbane, Queensland.-Personal life:Robin Gibson was an Architecture student at the University of Queensland, and graduated with a Diploma of Architecture in 1954. During his years in university, he worked in a number of architectural offices in...
and won the first national award for library design. The clusters of buildings, sports facilities, bushland reserves and recreational areas are connected by integrated networks of walking paths. The university was distinguished by its 'problem-based' rather than disciplinary approach to course design and research. The university now has a full suite of programs including arts, education, medicine, dentistry, engineering, business, science, and law.
The University is named after the former Premier of Queensland, and High Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...
justice, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith
Samuel Griffith
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG QC, was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.-Early life:...
, who was also the principal author of the Australian constitution
Constitution of Australia
The Constitution of Australia is the supreme law under which the Australian Commonwealth Government operates. It consists of several documents. The most important is the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia...
.
Academics
Faculties, Schools and Centres
- Business and Commerce
- Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School has international accreditation from AACSB International, making it part of an elite group that makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s business schools.
- Education
- School of Education and Professional Studies (Brisbane, Logan)
- School of Education and Professional Studies (Gold Coast)
- Engineering and Information Technology
- School of Information and Communication Technology
- Griffith School of Engineering
- Environment, Planning and Architecture
- Griffith School of Environment
Home to the Queensland Sports Technology Cluster at the Nathan Campus. An Electronic Sports Engineering degree was introduced in 2009 as a world first.
- Health
- Dentistry and Oral Health
- Human Services and Social Work
- Medical Science
- Medicine
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy and Exercise Science
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Humanities, Languages and Criminology
- School of Humanities
- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- School of Languages and Linguistics
- Law
- Griffith Law SchoolGriffith Law SchoolThe Griffith Law School is a school of Griffith University. The School is spread across three campuses throughout Queensland, Brisbane and the Gold Coast Campus. The Griffith Law School is noted for maintaining a culture of social justice and for its high quality.The Australian government ranks...
- Griffith Law School
- Music
- Queensland Conservatorium of MusicQueensland Conservatorium of MusicQueensland Conservatorium Griffith University was originally an independent tertiary-level institution, called the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.-History:...
- Queensland Conservatorium of Music
- Science and Aviation
- School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences
- Visual and Creative Arts
- Queensland College of ArtQueensland College of ArtThe Queensland College of Art is a specialist arts and design college located in South Bank, Brisbane, and Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It was founded in 1881 and is the oldest arts institution in Australia....
- Griffith Film School
- Queensland College of Art
Independent academic centres, institutes and colleges
- Centres
- Centre for Environment and Population Health
- Centre for Financial Independence and Education
- Continuing Professional Learning Enterprise
- EcoCentre
- Multi-Faith Centre
- Queensland Centre for Public Health (Griffith Node)
- Institutes
- Griffith English Language Institute
- Griffith Institute for Higher Education
- Colleges
- Griffith Honours College
- Griffith Sports College
- Units
- Gumurrii Student Support Unit
- Unit for Italian Studies
Externally Supported Centres and Facilities
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
- National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
- National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
- Smart Water Research Centre
Arts, Education and Law
- Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture
- Early Childhood Education Centre
- Griffith Centre for Cultural Research
- Griffith Institute for Educational Research
- Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research
- Griffith Islamic Research Unit
- Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law
- Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
- Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre
- Socio-Legal Research Centre
Business
- Centre for Governance and Public Policy
- Centre for Tourism, Sport and Service Innovation
- Centre for Work, Organisation and Well Being
- Griffith Asia Institute
Health
- Griffith Health Institute
- Behavioural Basis of Health
- Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation
- Heart Foundation Research Centre
- Molecular Basis of Disease
- Population Health
- Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
- Atmospheric Environment Research Centre
- Aviation
- Australian Rivers Institute
- Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Management
- Centre for Quantum Dynamics
- Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications
- Environmental Futures Centre
- Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies
- Forensic Science Research and Innovation Centre
- Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
- Griffith University DNA Sequencing Facility
- International Centre for Ecotourism Research
- Institute for Glycomics
- Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems
- International Centre for Management of Pest Fruit Flies
- National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research
- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre
- Software Quality Institute
- Urban Research Program
Griffith University also co-supports the national information and communication technology research centre (NICTA), and is the host of the Sports engineering
Sports engineering
Sports engineering is a field of engineering that involves the design, development and testing of sports equipment. The equipment used by athletes has always gone through technological design and development based on current knowledge and understanding. Sports engineering only became official in...
group, Queensland Sports Technology Cluster.
Rankings
- The QS World University Rankings places Griffith in 291st universities in the world. It was ranked 200th in Social Sciences, 268th in Arts and Humanities, 294th in Natural Sciences in the world by Times Higher Education in 2009 and ranked 256th in the world according to Global University Rankings 2009.
- Griffith Business School is recognised by the Aspen InstituteAspen InstituteThe Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. The organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues." The...
s ‘Top 100’ for its leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its programs. It was the highest Australian ranking. - Griffith Law SchoolGriffith Law SchoolThe Griffith Law School is a school of Griffith University. The School is spread across three campuses throughout Queensland, Brisbane and the Gold Coast Campus. The Griffith Law School is noted for maintaining a culture of social justice and for its high quality.The Australian government ranks...
has been ranked as No. 1 in the country by the respected publication, the "Good Universities Guide", both in 2005 and 2006. - Griffith ranked sixth in the world for Tourism Research contributions.
- The Griffith MBA received a five star rating for the seventh consecutive year from the Graduate Management Association of AustraliaGraduate Management Association of AustraliaThe Graduate Management Association of Australia is the nationally recognised umbrella Professional Association for graduates having MBA, DBA and other postgraduate business management qualifications in Australia....
. Griffith is only one of two universities nationally to achieve this feat and the International MBA program also received five stars in only its second year. - Griffith is ranked 2nd by getCITED’s Top 10 Institutions by Publications in Sports Marketing Journals over the past 3 years (2005) and 1st by getCITED’s Top 10 Institutions by Publications in Sports Management Journals over the past 3 years(2005).
- Its Accounting research has been ranked 7th (out of 37 universities) in Australia and in the top 100 in the world. The ranking, published in the Accounting and Finance, was based on the top 24 accounting journals internationally and ranked Griffith 72nd out of more than 1000 institutions in the world.
- Its Business program has been ranked 5th (out of 25 universities) in Australia and among top 100 in the world by Times Higher Education in 2009.
- The prestigious QS World University Rankings places Griffith in the top 300 universities in the world, which means the University is in the top 5% of universities in the world – as at 8 October 2009
Campus
Griffith University has campuses located at the Gold CoastGold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
and Nathan
Nathan
Nathan is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Hebrew verb נתן meaning to give . The meaning of the name in Jewish culture could be rendered "he [God] has given" or "he will give".The related name Elnathan could be rendered "Gift of God"...
, Mount Gravatt and Logan in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and the Queensland Conservatorium and the Queensland College of Art
Queensland College of Art
The Queensland College of Art is a specialist arts and design college located in South Bank, Brisbane, and Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It was founded in 1881 and is the oldest arts institution in Australia....
in Inner Brisbane. The Mount Gravatt campus is also home to the Queensland Institute of Business and Technology
Queensland Institute of Business and Technology
The Queensland Institute of Business and Technology is a higher education institution delivering programs as a registered Higher Education Provider approved by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations...
. The Nathan Campus was designed by prominent Australian architect Robin Gibson and was the founding campus of the University.
The university has a campus on High Street, Southport specifically designed and built for Oral Health and Medicine students called the "Centre for Medicine and Oral Health". It contains lecture theatres, cadaver labs, pathology labs and a dental clinic which serves the public. Building has commenced for a teaching hospital
Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...
, a new University Hospital at the Gold Coast campus, which is due to open in December 2012 and will replace most functions of the Centre for Medicine and Oral Health.
Sporting, social and cultural
Griffith University has a wide array of cultural, intellectual, sporting and social groups. Its Student Guild is an organisation within the university which takes care of these clubs on the Gold Coast campus, as well as student issues, accommodation, employment, publication, events, sport and recreation.On the Nathan campus, Campus Life supports many clubs including the long running GRUBS (Griffith University Bushwalking Club), The Karate and Kickboxing club and the Griffith University Aikido
Aikido
is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...
Club, recently incorporated and independent of the University. The Griffith University Rugby Union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
Club, established by Phil Verheijen in 2002, were runners up in the Northern University Games in 2005 and are consistently ranked in the top 6 at Australian University Games
Australian University Games
The Australian University Games is a multi-sport competition held annually in September / October between teams fielded from a large number of Australian universities and tertiary institutions. The Games were first held in 1993 in Brisbane, Queensland...
. Past captains include Nick Hurrell (2006), who is now an international rugby representative of Hong Kong.
The Griffith University Australian Football Club (GUAFC) is an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
club formed in 2001, competing in the AFLQ State Association
AFLQ State Association
AFLQ State Association is an Australian Rules Football association which includes clubs from South East Queensland...
. The Griffith University Gladiators finished runners up in two of their first five seasons in the AFLSQ. The club plays out of Griffith's Nathan Campus, which features one of Queensland's leading amateur Australian football grounds with state-of-the-art playing lights and club rooms.
Student Union and representation
Griffith University students are uniquely represented by two statutory embedded student organisations. The Griffith University Student Representative Council (GUSRC) represents undergraduate students and the Griffith University Postgraduate Students Association (GUPSA) represents post-graduate students in all campuses apart from the Gold Coast. GUPSA is a constituent member of the Council of Australian Postgraduate AssociationsCouncil of Australian Postgraduate Associations
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations, or CAPA, is the peak representative body for postgraduate students in Australia. Founded in 1979, CAPA provides member associations with representation to the Federal government, and peak bodies such as the Australian Research Council and...
. Unique to the Gold Coast is the Student Guild (GUSG) which represents all students from this campus and holds an administrative structure that is apparently independent to the university.
Alumni
Many alumni are politically active. Four alumni, Justine ElliotJustine Elliot
Maria Justine Elliot, MP is an Australian politician who was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Richmond, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election....
, Gary Hardgrave
Gary Hardgrave
Gary Douglas Hardgrave , Australian politician, was the Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until 2007, representing the Division of Moreton, Queensland. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Griffith University, Queensland...
, Julie Owens
Julie Owens
Julie Ann Owens , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 2004, representing the division of Parramatta, New South Wales...
(studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Ross Vasta
Ross Vasta
Ross Xavier Vasta , Australian politician, was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Bonner, Queensland for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election...
, serve in the Federal Parliament; Elliot is also the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade. Alumni Brett Mason
Brett Mason
Dr Brett John Mason , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1999, representing the state of Queensland. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Health....
serves in the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
for Queensland. Five alumni, Aidan McLindon
Aidan McLindon
Aidan Patrick McLindon is an Australian politician. He was first elected for the seat of Beaudesert to the Queensland State Parliament for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2009 Queensland Election...
, Phil Reeves
Phil Reeves (politician)
Philip Gerard "Phil" Reeves is an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Leisure Management from Griffith University and was a sports management and marketing consultant. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1987 and was Vice-President of the Garden City Branch...
, Peta-Kaye Croft
Peta-Kaye Croft
Peta-Kaye Croft is an Australian politician.In 2001 she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the seat of Broadwater for the Labor Party. She was born in Mount Isa and lived in Townsville and Brisbane during her early years...
, Judy Spence
Judy Spence
Judith Caroline "Judy" Spence is an Australian politician and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party since the 1989 election. She represented Mount Gravatt until 2009, but after a redistribution she switched to Sunnybank, which covered much of the same territory...
and Andrew Fraser
Andrew Fraser (Queensland politician)
Andrew Peter Fraser is an Australian politician in the Queensland State Parliament. He was first elected into the Queensland Legislative Assembly on the 7 February 2004...
, serve in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland Legislative Assembly
The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...
; Fraser is also the current Treasurer of Queensland. The current Opposition Leader Brisbane City Council, Shayne Sutton, is also alumni.
Prominent journalists include Liz Cantor
Liz Cantor
Liz Cantor is an Australian television presenter.She is currently the weekend weather presenter for Seven News Brisbane and she also reports on a number of Seven Network Queensland lifestyle programs, Great South East and Creek To Coast; and also presents the Golden Casket Lotto draw segments.Liz...
, who is a Seven News
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
personality and winner of the fifth season of The Mole
The Mole (Australia season 5)
The fifth season of the Australian version of The Mole, subtitled The Amazing Game, took place in New Zealand and was hosted by Tom Williams.-Show Details:...
. Kieran Ricketts
Kieran Ricketts
Kieran Ricketts is an Australian journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker.- Early life :Ricketts grew up in the NSW/Queensland border town of Tweed Heads and studied at Brisbane's Griffith University. In his final semester, he came to the attention of the ABC's Q&A after his satirical video mashups...
is a reporter for the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's news/comedy program Hungry Beast
Hungry Beast
Hungry Beast is an Australian television program, that is broadcast on Wednesday nights on ABC1 and repeated on Thursday night on ABC2. It is produced by Andrew Denton's production company,...
. Karen Tso
Karen Tso
Karen Tso is an Australian television journalist and anchor at CNBC Asia.Tso began her career as a general news reporter for the AAP after graduating with a commerce degree from Griffith University in Queensland. She also studied for a Masters In Journalism at both the University of Westminster in...
is also a television journalist alumni.
In the arts realm, Lucy Decoutere
Lucy Decoutere
Lucy Decoutere is a Canadian actress known for her role as the character Lucy in the hit television series Trailer Park Boys.She grew up as the youngest sibling of four from British and Czech parents. She attended grad school in Montreal and has held various jobs, including as a kindergarten...
(actress in the Trailer Park Boys
Trailer Park Boys
Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
), Jeong Ryeo-won
Jeong Ryeo-won
Jung Ryeo-won is a South Korean singer turned actress and model. She is an ex-member of now disbanded girl group Chakra and is best known for her role in the television drama My Lovely Sam Soon.-Biography:...
, (singer, actress), and Robert Warren (musician) headline the list. Writer David Vernon, as well as photographer Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson (photographer)
Adam Ferguson is an Australian freelance photojournalist currently working out of New Delhi, India. His photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune...
, are both alumni, as are models Amanda Ware
Amanda Ware
Amanda Ware is an Australian model, best known for being the winner of Cycle 6 of Australia's Next Top Model.-Career:...
, and Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova
Pavlína Pořízková-Ocasek is a Czech model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Central Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times...
(study abroad 1982). In 2011, filmmaker Peter Hegedus
Peter Hegedus
Peter Hegedus is an award winning writer, director and producer of both documentary and short fiction films. He is also the grandson of the former Prime Minister of Hungary, Andras Hegedus.-Early Life:...
was awarded the Griffith University Alumni Recognition Award for his achievements in documentary filmmaking.
Griffith athletes have starred in professional sports and Olympics. Gold Medal Olympians include speed skater Steven Bradbury
Steven Bradbury
Steven John Bradbury OAM is a former Australian short track speed skater and four-time Olympian, who won the 1,000 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all of his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up...
, cyclist Sara Carrigan
Sara Carrigan
Sara Carrigan OAM is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam....
, and swimmer Libby Lenton
Libby Lenton
Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett OAM is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course 100 metres freestyle...
. Other Griffith alumni include artist and political activist Van Thanh Rudd
Van Thanh Rudd
Van Thanh Rudd is a Vietnamese Australian artist, activist and the nephew of Australian former-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. His artworks have created controversies due to their left-wing political content...
, preacher and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic
Nick Vujicic
Nicholas James Vujicic is an Australian preacher and motivational speaker. Born with Tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs...
, educationist James Smith Page
James Page (Australian educationist)
Dr James Smith Page , is an Australian educationist and anthropologist, and a recognized authority within the field of peace education.-Education:...
, engineer and entrepreneur Rajnesh Singh
Rajnesh Singh
Rajnesh Dhirendra Singh is a Fiji-born entrepreneur and engineer of Indian descent. He holds several positions in the regional and international Information and Communications Technology community including the Internet Society and IPv6 Forum, and is an active Internet advocate and speaker on...
, and birth activist Barbara Vernon
Barbara Vernon
Barbara Vernon PhD is an Australian birth activist who lobbies government for improved provision of maternity services, particularly the expert use of midwives. She was the Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives from 2002 to 2010....
.