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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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Funding secured for shorebird research 

Published on 14 June, 2007 

CQU will undertake a Burnett Mary region shorebird conservation project, which has received $95,000 from the Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management (BMRG).

The project aims to promote shorebird conservation through regulation of recreational access as well as education and awareness campaigns.

PhotoID:4287, Dr Ashley Bunce
Dr Ashley Bunce

The project will be led by Dr Ashley Bunce, the Marine Ecology Program Leader based at CQU's Centre for Environmental Management in Gladstone.

Dr Bunce, in conjunction with Liz Tanner from the Woongarra Coast Monitoring & Education Project, has also secured funding of $85,000 from the Burnett Mary Regional Group to conduct a project on community coastal water.

See details at: http://content.cqu.edu.au/UniNews/viewStory.do?story=4325

A specialist on shorebirds and seabirds, Dr Bunce was previously based at Deakin University before coming to CQU in January.

He said the Marine Ecology Program was also currently developing research to map significant inshore coral reefs within the Burnett Mary region and was keen to build its capacity in this area, as many southern sections of the Great Barrier Reef were relatively unknown, compared to the northern section off Townsville and Cairns.