A strong skills base will underpin the Australian sugar industry’s future activities. The CRC’s Education Program will assist this by attracting a strong knowledge base to the industry and to biotechnology research.
The program is underpinned by three research projects:
Research Higher Degree Project
This project has been set up to provide CRC graduate students with a strong grasp of scientific and commercial elements of plant biology and biotechnology, to professionally develop postdoctoral staff and graduate students, and initiate industry and community education programs to raise awareness of biotechnology.
For a list of CRC SIIB postgraduate students and their research projects, with completed CRC SIIB Honours students and their graduate destinations, click here.
With University of Queensland Graduate School support, we are also researching the postgraduate research experiences of confirmed Research Higher Degree students at UQ. The study was launched in March 2007. For an online version of the final 2007 survey report, please click here.
Project Leader: Dr Suzanne Morris, UQ
School Science Research
This project will (i) determine how to effectively teach and assess key biotechnology concepts; (ii) assess how to transfer knowledge through school/parent and community links; and (iii) identify strategies that promote effective collaboration between schools and scientists.
Project Leader: Dr Kim Nichols, UQ
Industry biotechnology workshops
This project aims to improve the sugarcane industry’s knowledge of biotechnology and sugarcane biotechnology research to enhance the industry’s capacity to respond to new opportunities that may arise from the CRC SIIB’s biotechnology research. This project interacts closely with an industry body, the Sugarcane Gene Technology Group.
Project Leader: Dr Suzanne Morris, UQ