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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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TV advertising jargon 'unplugged' 

Published on 02 September, 2009 

If you saw it on TV, does it mean it's true?

According to CQUniversity's Dr Jim Douglas, it pays to be cautious regarding some of the information we receive via the small screen, and indeed, through various media...

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Dr James Douglas

Dr Douglas has been examining the TV advertising of household and health and beauty products in particular. Through the use of scientific sounding jargon and related imagery, the claims of many advertisements can be misleading.

Dr Douglas said as a science communicator he has a general interest in this pseudo science.

"We live in an information age where we are constantly fed information in multiples day in day out ... but amongst that information is a lot of misinformation."

The question, then, is how to recognise and respond to such misinformation.

Dr Douglas recently gave a public presentation on the topic as part of the Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR) 2009 Unplugged Presentation Series.

PhotoID:7744, Dr Douglas gives his presentation
Dr Douglas gives his presentation PhotoID:7745, Dr Douglas gives his presentation
Dr Douglas gives his presentation