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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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National award for CQU lecturer 

Occupational Health and Safety lecturer Darren Joubert, from CQU's School of Health & Human Performance, has won a prestigous national research award.

Darren has been awarded the 3M Australia Occupational Hygiene Prize for 2004 for his "well-written, incisive review of an intractable problem" in his paper entitled "Professional driving and adverse reproductive outcomes: the evidence to date and research challenges".

Darren will be presenting the paper, part of a future PhD, at the 22nd annual conference of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists in Perth in early December.