Radical change starts with you
Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation is where futures thinking meets pragmatic on the ground skills. Learn from industry experts and leading researchers as you deepen your understanding of impact innovation and systems transformation.
Postgraduate courses
Innovation for Impact
Delivered through Griffith MBA, this course explores the changing face of innovation in business, governments and civil society organisations addressing the growing number of social, environmental and technological challenges.
You will dive into Challenge-led Innovation where innovation policies, practices and investment are centred on achieving large, inter-sectoral challenges such as those at the heart of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Throughout the course you will develop and evaluate an innovation project that aims to contribute to better outcomes for people, place or planet.
Demonstrating Impact for Good
More than a technical skill, measuring impact has significant implications for strategic action, for how we govern and manage, and for how we lead businesses and organisations into the future.
This course is delivered through the Griffith MBA and is focussed on both technical and strategic aspects of impact measurement. You will learn how we can use data, evaluation and learning approaches to design better businesses and contribute to larger social, economic and environmental goals.
Drawing together impact measurement, accounting for impact, evaluation, strategy and foresight, you will be exposed to and test out the latest approaches to monitoring and evaluating impact across fields such as impact investment, mitigating climate change, achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, growing shared value and generating impact across supply chains.
Professional and community development
We collaborate with partners working to address grand challenges, creating bespoke learning opportunities for your workforce and communities.
We believe transformational learning experiences are engaging and thought provoking. We are focused on building capabilities for the future we want to see.
Here are some of the experiences we have co-created:
- 8-week online short course including digital badge accreditation
- two-day Re:Treat
- self-paced online course including optional digital badge accreditation
- 4-week in person workshops
Challenge-led mapping ReTreat
We start with your purpose and imagine together from there. We work with everyone from community groups to corporates and public sector teams, as long as you’re looking to answer some of the same questions about innovating systems as we are. This two-day ReTreat brought people from around the globe together to dive into Challenge-led Innovation and strengthen relationships amongst systems actors.
Higher Degree Research
We love finding people as passionate about our areas of action research as we are. Our supervision practice is to co-supervise with other Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation supervisors. We are interested in accelerating transitions to a regenerative and distributive economy. If your research interests align get in touch.
Our process
- Contact us for a conversation to see if your research questions and interests align with ours.
- If we are aligned, and we have availability, you’ll go through the Griffith University application process.
Testimonials
Challenge-Led Innovation Re:Treat
My learnings will change the way I approach wicked challenges that face me as a public servant. It has further supported me to shape the way I connect across teams, departments, regions and agencies.
Innovation for Impact
The teachers are phenomenal. The course is brilliantly laid out... The support, passion and dedication to students is commendable. This has been one of my favourite subjects so far.
Socially Responsible Renewable Energy Development short course
A course so relevant for the time in which Íwe live and work - not just delivering practical skills or knowledge that is applicable every hour of our days - but creating a learning cohort giving opportunity for ongoing learning and collaboration to occur well beyond the life of the course