Previous webinars for those seeking inspiration available below.
Making the decision to go to uni as a mature student can take a lot of consideration as you navigate the balance between work, home life, and study. Hear inspiring real stories from JCU alumni about their experiences as mature students and find out insider tips and tricks on how they adapted to challenges and went on to achieve study success.
If you are a mature student looking to upskill, re-skill or simply learn something new, you will hear from people who have developed advanced skills to build rewarding careers.
PowerPoint may have been cool in 1997, but an entirely new educational approach is needed for a generation that has never known life without a smartphone. The technology gap between Gen X and those who belong to the Millennial and Gen Z generations is the equivalent to computers that were once the size of a car are now able to fit in your hand and follow your every waking moment.
Join Dr Anthony Marinac on a journey through the generations as he discusses how those of us who once played Pac-Man and Space Invaders can connect with and teach students who live their lives online.
Atomic testing in Australia during the 1950s has been shrouded in mystery and secrecy for decades, but JCU Associate Professor Liz Tynan is blowing the history open with her latest book, The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia. In this webinar, Liz shares the stories of the Operation Totem atomic tests in 1953 and their lingering effects on the people, the landscape, and the wildlife at Emu Field in South Australia.
An award-winning author and academic, Liz previously wrote Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, for which she won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History and the CHASS Book Prize in 2017. She is also the Co-ordinator of the Professional Development Program for the JCU Graduate Research School. Liz draws on her extensive experience as a science journalist and researcher to bring light in this webinar to the forgotten fate of Emu Field, long after the mushroom clouds dispersed.
We live in an ever-increasingly energy-thirsty world. Our mouths, our devices, our houses and our cars all require more fuel than ever before. What does the future of energy look like as economics, rising populations and sustainability collide?
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In homicide cases, the location of human remains is typically used to create a criminal profile of an offender – allowing investigators to determine the nature of the crime and draw inferences regarding the offender’s personality and characteristics. However, what about instances where victim remains are yet to be located?
JCU PhD student and Queensland Police Service Senior Sergeant Jim Whitehead is conducting a world-first study exploring the use of criminal profiles to identify viable search areas for their victims’ remains. Join Mr Whitehead to discover how he is using Queensland homicide cases to develop a system of statistical analysis that may help bring closure to grieving families, and assist in securing a conviction.
Farming is ‘man’s work’ – or is it? The Internet of Things (IoT) is heralding a much-anticipated era of agriculture where adopting ag-tech will be critical to creating agricultural management efficiencies. With increasing demands for Australian beef and a shortage of rural workers, farmers are turning to on-farm technology to help manage livestock, crops and horticulture to boost productivity. While both men and women farm, it is women who are driving the technology from the farmhouse to the paddock, meaning women are playing a larger role in decision making in agri-business. As empowering as this shift in leadership is, the battle for equality is far from won. While men are adopting technology faster than ever before, women are primarily responsible for the purchase, installation and maintenance of adopted technologies, creating more responsibility for farming women.
Gain a fresh perspective with JCU’s Dr Rachel Hay into how Australian women are pivoting to embrace tech-based beef production practices. In this webinar, you’ll explore the engagement of women and technology in agriculture, especially the importance of rural women’s roles in managing technology and the valuable skills they bring to decision-making in management and leadership.
Australia lies within the Asia-Pacific region, with interwoven relations and links to South-East Asia through trade, diplomacy and the millions of its citizens born there. Nonetheless, ‘Asia literacy’ is seen by some as sorely lacking amongst Australians. Join our expert alumni panel as they explore the connections between Australia and the nations that surround it.
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How can art, rubbish and climate change be linked? Find out how they are coming together to shine a light on some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
JCU’s Associate Professor Robyn Glade-Wright is using art as a medium to draw attention to important messages in relation to our changing world. Robyn is a practising contemporary artist and arts educator with over 40 solo exhibitions in public and private galleries. In this webinar, Robyn will present a range of her artworks in order to discuss climate change and environmental pollution.
The works of art were created primarily from discarded materials washed up on Australia’s beaches. Materials include cigarette lighters, floats, children’s toys, plastic tops and rope. Experience how art can encourage us to reflect on our place in the environment and prompt us into action to stop the tide of plastics from polluting the environment and the food we eat.
Throughout this session our panellists look to explore the interrelationship between the occupants of the Earth: humanity and nature. What are the critical issues facing the world’s fauna, flora and humans? Amidst diminishing resources, how do we all share the planet sustainably?
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Take control of your business and save your organisation time, energy and money by turning conflict into opportunity.
Conflict management and resolution skills are essential in supporting innovation and creating highly engaged and productive workforces. With organisations now operating in an environment of unprecedented complexity with globalisation, sustainability, technological advancement, automation and increased workplace diversity all key influencing factors, this is a webinar which you can’t afford to miss.
Join the JCU Conflict Management and Resolution team for a panel discussion with conflict management practitioners, leaders, and managers on how conflict management skills, knowledge, and practice can contribute to tackling workplace challenges.
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As the cyclone season approaches, a timely reminder to prepare is almost cliché. There is more you can do to prepare for a cyclone than putting away the patio furniture and stocking up on canned food. Hear from JCU Cyclone Testing Station experts on building resilience, as well as advice on how you can prepare your own cyclone check list.
Find out if you are eligible for a fully government funded NQ Strata Title Inspection report that estimates the resilience of your residential strata property and recommendations on how it can be improved.
Improving the resilience of your home to wind, rain and storm tide may be cheaper and easier than you think!
The JCU Ideas Lab Fireside Chat is a regular series from JCU Connect of informal Q&A sessions. Guests are from the local entrepreneurship community, global experts from the national and international innovation, technical research, and entrepreneurship sectors.
In this discussion and audience Q&A, Keith Sue, Innovation Facilitator, JCU Ideas Lab, sits down with Kelvin Ross, Director, Queensland AI Hub.
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Throughout this session, panellists will explore how societies and individuals can adapt to a rapidly-changing human experience increasingly living alongside and amongst forms of artificial intelligence.
The age of artificial intelligence is one of the most punctuating moments in history which we all get to witness first-hand so we hope you will join us as our panelists provide fascinating insight into how our species will navigate this mesmerising chapter of the human narrative.
How will COVID-19 impact the education and employment trajectories of young people? Historically, economic downturns have had lifelong consequences for happiness, life satisfaction and lifetime earnings.
Dr Jenny Chesters from the Melbourne Graduate Research School of Education joins Distinguished Professor Stewart Lockie, Director of the JCU Cairns Institute, for this special webinar to celebrate Social Sciences week (7-13 September).
Jenny will draw on extensive data to understand the experiences of previous generations, explain how Australia can avoid the worst-case scenario and explore how young people can build a brighter future.
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In this discussion and audience Q&A, Keith Sue, Innovation Facilitator, JCU Ideas Lab, sits down with Alan Crabbe the co-founder of the Australian equity crowdfunding platform Birchal.
Alan has been a leader in the crowdfunding space in Australia and the Asia-Pacific since 2010, and had distributed over $100 million of investment capital to entrepreneurs and social-change makers through Birchal and its sister platform Pozible.
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Throughout this webinar our panellists will examine the current state of the world through the lens of the concerning trend of rising inequalities between nations and between individuals across practically every aspect of human development.
Tourism plays an important part in the Queensland economy. As we look to the future, how can we make travel more resilient?
Join JCU Tourism experts Dr Laurie Murphy and Dr Denis Tolkach to discuss how we can develop a resilient tourism sector. Discover how we can contribute to community wellbeing and address current challenges while maintaining a long-term outlook. Topics will also include the responsible use and conservation of resources and how to build capacity to adapt to change.
What will be the impact on Australian workplaces once the Government’s support ends? Australian law has changed in order to deal with the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on Australian workplaces.
Join JCU's Dr Louise Floyd for an analysis of the crucial legal issues involved in employment and corporate law in this tough business climate. Dr Floyd will explore the impacts of job keeper, working from home and telecommuting, along with structural reform of the Australian industrial relations system.
Throughout this half-hour session, we will be exploring the current state of the world and how leadership, diplomacy and compassion will be vital in emerging from the difficult times we find ourselves in at present. Responses to COVID-19, rising geopolitical tensions and social unrest have differed immensely and during this session, our alumni panel will discuss examples of both sound and substandard leadership during recent crises.
What is social enterprise? How can it play a part in economic recovery? Explore the nature of social enterprise with JCU’s Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan. Discover the opportunities social entrepreneurship presents to develop local and global solutions that are economically, socially and ecologically sustainable.
The immediate effects of COVID-19 have shown that ‘business as usual’ is no longer a viable option. Far North Queensland is particularly vulnerable due to large natural resources, relatively small and scattered populations, high unemployment levels, and energy dependency, just to name a few factors. Find out how doing business with a social purpose can provide solutions.
