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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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Health and fitness are hot topics 

Published on 31 October, 2007 

Central Queensland University will host a physical activity, fitness and health presentation by 2 distinguished visitors on Thursday November 1 at the Rockhampton campus (building 33/G.22), from 1pm to 2.30pm.

Former leader in the CQU-based 10,000 Steps program and now Director of the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research at the Auckland University of Technology, Professor Grant Schofield will discuss the physical environment in promoting, or impeding activity in the general population.

Head of the School of Biomedical Science at the University of Western Sydney, Professor Gregory Kolt will discuss intervention studies aimed at increasing levels of physical activity in older adults, including telephone-based counselling programs.

The presentation will also give an insight into the physical activity studies the professors are currently undertaking in New Zealand.

The presentation will be video-conferenced to Bundaberg, Gladstone and Mackay.