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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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CQU hosts sport management conference 

Published on 08 November, 2002 

Central Queensland University will provide the “best of both worlds” at the 8th Annual Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference which will be staged at the Mercure Inn in Rockhampton from 28 to 30 November.

Conference director Dr Geoff Dickson from CQU's School of Health and Human Performance said this year’s theme of the SMAANZ Conference, ‘best of both worlds’, has been inspired by the combination of sport and management.

PhotoID:369 “We are proud to be able to host this world renowned conference in Rockhampton,” Dr Dickson said.

“Like the conference theme, Rockhampton, Central Queensland and CQU represent the best of both worlds. We get the benefits of living in a city that is not too big or too small which offers the combination of the bush and the sea.

AFL general manager of game development Dr Ross Smith will provide one of two keynote addresses. Dr Smith will address the relationship between elite and grassroots sport, as well as sport development in rural and regional Australia.

The second keynote address will be provided by CQU’s own Associate Professor Kerry Mummery, acting head of the School of Health and Human Performance. Professor Mummery will address “Physical activity, social marketing and sport management – The pursuit of the best of all worlds”.

Dr Dickson said the conference program will include nearly 50 presentations from speakers from South Africa, New Zealand, Great Britain, Taiwan, United States and Canada.

“This is an excellent result for SMAANZ,” Dr Dickson said. “We also expect people from around the world to converge on Rockhampton for the conference.

Dr Dickson said the principal aim of SMAANZ was to encourage scholarly inquiry into sport management related research and to provide the opportunity to present results from this research.

The annual SMAANZ Conference facilitates the presentation of sport management related research and its organising body publishes a refereed journal titled the Sport Management Review. The conference and journal are the vehicles through which sport management related research are communicated.

For additional information visit the conference website www.smaanz2002.cqu.edu.au or contact Geoff Dickson on (07) 4930 9141.