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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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Audience happy to hear about staying healthy 

Published on 28 April, 2009 

Audience members at our latest Research Unplugged session were keen to hear about the role of happiness and health in keeping disease-causing bacteria at bay.

Speaking at Rockhampton's Criterion Hotel on April 23, Dr John McGrath from the Capricornia Centre for Mucosal Immunology at CQUniversity explained that we live in a delicate balance with microbes, during his presentation entitled Bacterial wars: the ‘fight' for physical, nutritional and mental health'?.

PhotoID:7050, Pam McMahon and Kerry Gittins enjoy the event
Pam McMahon and Kerry Gittins enjoy the event

The event was arranged by the Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR) (previously Healthy Communities and the Centre for Social Science Research).

PhotoID:7051, John McGrath (seated) discusses his talk with Dr Jim Douglas
John McGrath (seated) discusses his talk with Dr Jim Douglas PhotoID:7052, Stewart Lockie introduces the talk
Stewart Lockie introduces the talk PhotoID:7053, Diane Goldsworthy and Jennifer Jones
Diane Goldsworthy and Jennifer Jones

 PhotoID:7054, The audience finds out about staying healthy
The audience finds out about staying healthy