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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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OPAL Awards details 

Engaged Learning and Teaching - Finalists

  • Choices Applied Theatre Project - Judith Brown, Lisa McKay, Sean Perez and Katelyn Ryan
  • Engaging with SuperStar Role Models - Steven Pace, and
  • John Holland CQUniversity Engineers for the Future - Ian Devenish, Stuart Ommensen, Shelley Fawcett and Kim Hetherington

Winner - ‘Choices Applied Theatre Project'   

Engaged Research and Innovation - Finalists

  • ‘Research and Promotion of Phytocapping Technique of Landfill Remediation in Australia' - Nanjappa Ashwath and Kartik Venkatraman
  • ‘Make That Water Work' - Surya Bhattarai, and
  • ‘ManUp Gladstone' - Pierre Viljoen, Mitch Duncan, Kylie Connolly, Kelly Corry, Marcus Ellison, Cindy Hooker, Anetta Van Itallie and Corneel Vandelanotte

Winner - ‘Make That Water Work' - Surya Bhattarai

Engaged Community Service - Finalists

  • ‘Do You Know What's In Your Food?' - Karena J Burke,
  • ‘The MIST Conference' - Wendy Fasso, Marg Flanders and Rosie Thrupp
  • ‘TreeMappa and Neo Geography' - Sue Davis, and
  • ‘Science@CQU' - Bob Newby

Winner  -  ‘The MIST Conference'