This online talk will showcase some of the finest local Queensland athletes, from Queensland Race Walking Club, Queensland Masters Athletics and parkrun!
Professor Brenda Gannon, University of Queensland, who has researched ageing, physical activity and health care use, will talk with athletes about their lifestyle, training, nutrition, coaching and volunteering. Their influence is broad, also coaching children from age 8 upwards, and adults into their 80’s and 90’s! Their achievements are outstanding!
Athletes include:
- Internationally competitive racewalkers
- Australian and Queensland Masters Champions
- Queensland Record Holders
- World Medallist
- World Masters Association volunteers.
Please join in to learn their tricks of the trade, and how you can become involved too!
A Zoom Link will be provided here soon. Please check back here by 12 October.
About Seniors Month at UQ
This month UQ is supporting Queensland Seniors Month. The theme ‘Social Connections' promotes positive community attitudes towards older people and ageing.
As Australia’s first Age Friendly University, we are hosting a variety of events throughout the month.
'Social Connection' events for seniors
- Seniors Month Horticultural and Bush Tucker Garden Tour - 11 October 2022 9:30am–10:30am
- Bite-Sized Science: Seniors Month Morning Tea - 18 October 2022 10:30am–12:00pm
- Senior Athletics Throughout The Ages webinar - 20 October 2022 6:00pm–7:00pm
- Seniors Month Intergenerational Bird Walk - 30 October 2022 6:30am–9:00am
Age friendly 'Social Connection' events for all ages
- Camps, cottages, and homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland at UQ’s Anthropology Museum. Free exhibition.
- 1–28 October 2022
- Elements (plural noun: parts into which a whole may be formed): A ‘Live at UQ’ School of Music Concert. Free: open to audiences of all ages.
- 6 October 2022 1:00pm
- Free pool night, Unidive (The University of Queensland Underwater Club) Free: open to any qualified diver, of any age.
- 6 October 2022 7:00pm
- Friends of Antiquity talk by Professor Alasdair Blanshard: The Grand Tour: an Institution and its Legacy. $10, including afternoon tea.
- 9 October 2022
- Live finals of the 4MBS Musica Viva Sid Page Competition (also being broadcast live on 4MBS). Free: tickets available.
- 13 October 2022 1:00pm
- UQ Singers live performance. (The UQ Singers are School of Music emerging artists who focus on classical singing). Free: tickets available.
- 27 October 2022 1:00pm
- UQ’s regional roadshow visits the Gold Coast region.
- 28–29 October 2022
- 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony at the UQ Art Museum. Free entry.
- 27 August–26 November 2022
Other things to do at UQ throughout October
- Check out Wondrous Machines at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. Free exhibition.
- Visit one of UQ’s libraries. Anyone is welcome to visit UQ Library locations and to use the on-site collections, including UQ’s cultural and historical collections. Visitors also have access to a selection of our databases and eBooks that can be accessed from Library computers, key digitised collections from Fryer Library, and UQ Library Search.
- Visit UQ’s Physics Museum (open 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday), and don’t forget to look at the famous Pitch Drop Experiment.
- If you are a UQ graduate, visit the recently-opened Atrium in Brisbane City (308 Queen Street, Brisbane).
- Check out some of UQs many MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
- Visit the online exhibitions at UQ's RD Milns Antiquities museum.