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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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Reproductive Technology study leads to another award 

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Nurses' Professional Group (NPG) has awarded CQUniversity PhD candidate Judith Applegarth with a prestigious ASRM Nurse Research Award, for her work in the area of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) nursing practice...

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Judith Applegarth

Judith was chosen as a result of her outstanding work as first author of her poster submission "Interruptions: Impacts on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)" and for her status as a licensed nursing professional.

Judith will present the findings from her PhD in October at the ASRM Annual Meeting in Orlando, USA.

This is the second such prestigious award that Judith has received as a direct outcome from her PhD. In Rome, 2010, Judith won the "Nurses Exchange Award" at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction (ESHRE), in recognition by her peers as an emerging leader in her field.