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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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CQUni professor elected to board of management peak body 

CQUniversity's Professor Lee Di Milia has been elected as a Queensland representative on the board of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the peak management body for education and research.

Professor Di Milia hosted the organisation's national conference in Yeppoon in 2006 and has been an ANZAM research fellow since 2010.

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Professor Lee Di Milia

The latest news comes as Professor Di Milia prepares to present a late-November session at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress in Adelaide.

This presentation will be based on his recent paper published with CQUniversity's Professor Naomi Rogers and Swedish researcher Torbjorn Akerstedt. This paper explores findings from one of the few studies to examine the effect of working night shift and long-distance commuting.

Sleepiness, Long Distance Commuting and Night Work as Predictors of Driving Performance identifies seven variables as significant predictors of lane crossing, with the strongest being acute sleepiness, followed by driving more than 150km, obtaining less than 10 hours sleep in the previous 48 hours, driving after night shift, being less than 43 years old, and using a mobile phone during the journey.