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Birds of the Nathan Campus, Griffith University
No full textThis booklet was created to provide readily available information on the bird species recorded on the Griffith University Nathan campus in Brisbane, Australia for education and teaching purposes. The 129 bird species in this guide have been ordered in alphabetical order by scientific name (based on IUCN naming conventions). Below each species photograph, icons displaying endemicity and threat status have been included along with threatening processes. A brief description of the habitat and ecology of each species is also provided.Full Tex
Student Data from Clinical Education at the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University [Dataset]
No full textResearch data produced in association with PhD Thesis, 'A Prospective Evaluation of Interprofessional Team-Based Clinical Education at the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University'. As the potential value of interprofessional education (IPE) is strongly advocated in the literature, the Griffith University School of Dentistry and Oral Health (DOH) introduced the interprofessional teams-based treatment planning (TBTP) process in 2009 to address these educational challenges and facilitate IPE. The TBTP process incorporated student practice teams and an expansion of peer learning through collaboration between students enrolled in three different oral health programs, namely dentistry, dental technology and oral health therapy. It was perceived that shared learning, understanding of complementary knowledge, collaborative participation in managing patient care, and having knowledge/respect for each professions’ role were all necessary to improve communication and teamwork skills in a pre-qualification context in readiness for collaborative oral health practice. However, a systematic evaluation of the TBTP process, its contribution to student clinical learning and experiences, and whether those experiences contributed to advancing interprofessional competencies and capabilities at DOH has not been conducted since its commencement. The thesis documents an evaluation that researched the attitudes, perceptions and experiences of students, clinical teaching staff, patients and newly graduated OHPs involved with the TBTP process at DOH between 2012 and 2015. This data informs part of that evaluation.Full Tex
Vertebrates of the Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University
No full textGriffith University is signatory to the United Nations Global Compact and has signed up to Sustainable Development Solutions Network Australia/Pacific — the Universities Commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Griffith University has a passion for sustainability, a key initiative of the 2020-2025 Strategic Plan. By 2025, Griffith University’s commitment to and continuous improvement in sustainability will be achieved by: • Embedding the SDGs in University teaching, research and operations. • Ranking in the top 200 universities in the world for the implementation of the SDGs. • Halving carbon emissions by 2030; with the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This booklet was created to provide readily available information to some of the vertebrate species recorded on the Griffith University Gold Coast campus for education and teaching purposes. The vertebrate species have been ordered by class (frogs, reptiles, mammals, birds and fish) and then in alphabetical order by scientific name (based on IUCN naming conventions). Below each species photograph, icons displaying endemicity and threat status have been included along with threatening processes. A brief description of the habitat and ecology of each species is also provided.Full Tex
Field‐based Carbon Assessment of the Arboretum at the Logan campus, Griffith University
No full textForests on the campuses of Griffith University contribute a range of ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 13: Climate Action and UNSDG 15: Life on Land. This includes the 5.2 ha Arboretum at the Logan campus of Griffith University. To estimate the carbon sequestered in the Arboretum over the initial nine years of growth, field work was undertaken in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all woody plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of at least 5 cm in 10m by 15m randomly located quadrats in each of 28 blocks of forest in the Arboretum using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (38.9 t C ha‐1 ) which was then combined with area of the Arboretum (5.2 ha trees) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (192.5 t carbon) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Ground Carbon in woody plants (240 t carbon). These results demonstrate the importance of the Arboretum where an open area of grass has been turned into a high biodiverse urban forest consisting of over 3,500 trees in 2023 representing 56 species that is cooling the Logan campus, conserving soil, providing habitat for wildlife and wellbeing benefitsfor staff,students and visitors. It has also already sequestered about 29% (Gold Coast) or 27% (Nathan) of the carbon in the native forests on the other campuses. Ongoing management of Arboretum and other wood vegetation on the Logan campus including trees in the Slakes Creek restoration forests, formal gardens and the small area remnant forest at the Logan Campus of Griffith University will ensure they continue to provide benefits including carbon sequestration.Full Tex
Field‐based Forest Carbon Assessment Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus
No full textThe native forests of Griffith University contribute a range of ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) 13: Climate Action and UNSDG 15: Life on Land. To estimate the carbon currently stored within the native forests, and potential for future carbon sequestration, field estimation of the carbon sequestered in the forests on the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University was undertaken in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all woody plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height of at least 5 cm along two randomly located 20 x 50 m transects in the dominant Blackbutt forest Regional Ecosystem (RE) using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (126 t C ha‐1 ) which was then combined with the current area of intake for the forest on‐campus (29.2 ha) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (3,679 t carbon) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Ground Carbon in woody plants (4,672 t carbon). Furthermore, these forests could be contributing to further carbon sequestration at an estimated rate of 85 t ha‐1 y‐1 . These results demonstrate the importance of the forests on the Gold Coast campus in their role as relatively high carbon stocks when compared to other sub‐tropical forest types in Queensland. It also emphasises their role as carbon sinks when they recover from past logging, and other types of disturbance, with an estimated sequestration of carbon at a rate of 85 t ha‐1 y‐1 . However, they could become a source of carbon (losing more than they sequester) if not appropriately managed, including damage to the few remaining large old trees, which are significant carbon stores, with less than 3% of the trees accounting for more than 52% of the carbon stock on the campus. Inappropriate bushfire management is another important risk that could reduce the sequestration potential of these forests.Full Tex
Field Based Forest Carbon Assessment Griffith University, Nathan Campus
No full textThe native forests of Griffith University contribute a range of important ecosystem services and functions including sequestering carbon, and hence are an important component of Griffith University’s Sustainability Goals including in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDG13: Climate Action as well as SDG15: Life on Land. To estimate the carbon currently stored within the native forests on the Nathan campus of Griffith University, and potential for future carbon sequestration, field estimation of the carbon in the forests was undertaken along 14 transects across 7 of the 12 Regional Ecosystems (RE) on the campus in 2023. Specifically, Above Ground Biomass was estimated by converting measurements of the height and width of all wood plants and standing dead trees with a Diameter at Breast Height of 5cm along 14 10m * 50m transects (two per RE, randomly located) using standard allometric calculations. These field values were then converted to tons of Above Ground Carbon per ha (12.5.3a = 98.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 155.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 168.2, 12.9‐10.4 = 141.3 12.11.24 = 177.2, 12.11.25 = 106.8, 12.11.26 = 94.4, weighted average across RE = 150 t C ha‐1 ) which when combined with the area of each sampled RE and other RE on campus (144.6 ha) to give a final estimate of the amount of Above Ground Carbon (21,749 t carbon) (living and standing dead) as well as both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in woody plants (living and standing dead) (27,186 t carbon). There were lots of dead standing trees in the forest (20.9% of wood plants). When they were removed from the calculations the carbon values were slightly lower per RE (12.5.3a = 85.1, 12.9‐10.17c = 144.2, 12.9‐10.26 = 161.3, 12.9‐10.4 = 132.3 12.11.24 = 158.5, 12.11.25 = 102.4, 12.11.26 = 64.0, weighted average across RE = 139.4 t C ha‐1 ) while the total Above Ground Carbon in living wood plants was estimated as 20,193 t carbon and both Above and Below (in roots) Carbon in living woody plants was estimated as 25,241 t carbon. These values are broadly similar to those for a range of wet open forests in subtropical Queensland and reflect the generally high BioCondition of the forests at Nathan. It is also possible to estimate carbon flux for the forests on campus based on a rate of 2.92 t ha‐1 y‐1 given for similar forests in the region. Using this value, the Nathan forests may be sequestering carbon from the atmosphere at the rate of 423 t ha‐1 y‐1 . However, too frequent/hot bushfires, further clearing, drought conditions and the spread of weeds will reduce biodiversity in the forests and their capacity as carbon stores and carbon sinks.Full Tex
Editor's note
No full textWelcome to the first issue of the Griffith University Undergraduate Psychology Journal.Full Tex
Reimagining Primary Science Education at Griffith University
No full textLargely as a result of unfortunate or inadequate experiences with science during their compulsory school years many students enter the first of two core primary science education courses at Mt Gravatt and Logan Campuses of Griffith University with trepidation. Attempts to develop in these students a positive attitude towards science and the teaching of science have not been helped by inadequate university funding, which has forced all universities into mass teaching and other approaches that are "efficient" in terms of staff student ratios. Working within these attitudinal and funding constraints, Griffith University educators in the two courses have experimented with a range of different teaching, learning and assessment methods. In close consultation with students they have refined those ideas that are rated as effective and discarded those that are rated as ineffective, resulting in two courses that are now highly rated by students and regarded as beneficial. This paper discusses a range of different methodologies that have been employed to help overcome negative attitudes and the isolating and impersonal influences of large group instruction. Techniques discussed include teaching styles in mass lectures, engaging students during mass lectures, small group learning projects, effective assessment, student support, flexible learning and delivery ideas, and the primacy of reflective student feedback to achieving student satisfaction.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional StudiesFull Tex
Proceedings of Sustainability and Ethnomusicology Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
No full textThis reflective paper examines the process of producing new art music underpinned by musicological research in our project work. It responds to a hybrid space where traditional notions of the separate researcher are suspended in favour of an emerging model that sees the musicologist as an artistic collaborator in the continued development of music tradition. Arrangement, composition, music production and project management are therefore important skills for the researcher to develop in such project-based interactions. This emerging model of cross disciplinary musicology can help to facilitate artistic and musical outcomes as well as navigate the complex ethical and personal issues relating to custodianship and development of music traditions. Crucial to this is an increasing interaction with technology that such projects increasingly require. It is argued that traditional and hybrid music forms need the same access to physical resources, composition practice and productions skill sets as western art and popular music styles, and where possible that these skill sets should be developed and harnessed by the custodians of traditions.Arts, Education & Law Group, Queensland ConservatoriumFull Tex
The Pathways to Prevention Project: The First Five Years, 1999-2004
No full textPathways to Prevention is a universal, 'early intervention', developmental prevention project. It is based on the assumption that mobilising social resources to support children, families and their communities before problems emerge is more effective and cheaper than intervening when problems have become entrenched. The key is to work early in the developmental pathway, which does not necessarily mean early in life. For the period covered in this report the project focused on the transition to school in one of the most disadvantaged urban areas in Queensland. It combined child-focused programs delivered through state preschools ( the Preschool Intervention Program, or PIP ) with services for families (the Family Independence Program, or FIP ), within a community development framework. The project is an ongoing partnership between Mission Australia and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University
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