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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Making your PhD a 'pet project' could help avert disaster 

Published on 01 February, 2013 

A PhD scholarship is available for a new nationally-funded project entitled ‘Should I stay or should I go? Increasing natural disaster preparedness and survival through animal attachment'...

The successful candidate will analyse the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report, interview 120 natural disaster survivors in four Australian states, carry out a national online survey of 500 pet owners about their actual or planned behaviours in natural disasters, and develop an innovative emergency preparedness public health campaign.

PhotoID:13863, Principle supervisor Dr Kirrilly Thompson . PHOTO courtesy Genevieve Cooper at the Hills Courier
Principle supervisor Dr Kirrilly Thompson . PHOTO courtesy Genevieve Cooper at the Hills Courier

Principle supervisor Dr Kirrilly Thompson is based at CQUniversity's Appleton Institute in Adelaide but interstate applicants are welcome.

Applicants have until February 22 to apply. LINK here for a detailed PDF flyer

A detailed project description is available via kirrilly.thompson@cqu.edu.au or 0413 616 650 (before Feb 8) or via Kasey Girle on 07 4923 2607 or sgr@cqu.edu.au after Feb 8.

PhotoID:13874, LINK for a larger image. PHOTO courtesy Genevieve Cooper at the Hills Courier
LINK for a larger image. PHOTO courtesy Genevieve Cooper at the Hills Courier