Georgia Nielsen

The figure is far higher than previously thought, and has wide-ranging policy implications, according to Stuart Cunningham, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), based at Queensland University of Technology. … it has also been adopted by overseas agencies, including the British Government department which conceived the idea of the creative […]

Unlikely as it sounds, that is exactly what two academics working in very different fields—linguistics and bio-informatics—have achieved, through a remarkable cross-disciplinary collaboration. Hugh Craig is director of the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, with a long-standing interest in the mathematical qualities of language. Pablo Moscato is director of the university’s

“It has been transformative,” says Rebecca Millar, who coordinates the Zest Festival in Kalbarri, 140 kilometres north of Geraldton, Western Australia, in partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). The festival celebrates Kalbarri’s history and heritage, and its connection to countries on the route of the former Dutch East India Trading Company, or Vereenigde

Spanning Earth, the stars, life and humanity, ‘Big History’ traces the evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to the internet. For David Christian, the Macquarie University historian who coined the term and pioneered the new field, it’s a “unifying origin story for a modern age”. Big History also melds the humanities and sciences

For Iain McCalman, author of the award-winning The Reef—A Passionate History, their story showed not only that ordinary people can take on powerful forces and win, it demonstrated that a union of the arts and sciences—of sensibility and intellect—can have extraordinary impacts. … a union of the arts and sciences—of sensibility and intellect—can have extraordinary impacts.

Following allegations of sexual assault by Canterbury Bulldog players at a training camp in Coffs Harbour in 2004, the National Rugby League (NRL) approached Catharine Lumby for advice on changing the sport’s off-field culture. Within five years, the evidence-based education program that she oversaw the research and design of had improved players’ attitudes and behaviour towards

Tom Griffiths, director of the Australian National University (ANU)’s Centre for Environmental History, had friends in Steels Creek. He had also been studying Victoria’s mountain ash forests for two decades. And so was born a research collaboration which Professor Griffiths believes could help bush communities around Australia to understand fire better—and to survive it. The project

With its restaurants, fresh produce market, language schools and Asian fashion boutiques, Chinatown has long been an important tourist destination. As Australia forges closer ties with China and other regional neighbours, the former ethnic enclave is gaining new significance as a gateway for Asian migrants, goods, services, investment and even cultural trends. It also offers

José Luis Zapatero, then Spain’s newly elected opposition leader, came across Professor Pettit’s landmark book Republicanism while searching for a vision that reflected his core values. The philosophy which Pettit outlined—called civic republicanism, or neo-republican­ism—inspired a policy platform which helped Zapatero’s Spanish Socialist Party to win the 2004 election. Civic republicanism can guide either side of politics, according

A recent surge in new infections, though, has raised questions about the effectiveness of present-day strategies in a changing social landscape. When the epidemic struck in the 1980s, gay men socialised mainly in urban public spaces, such as bars, nightclubs and dance parties. Nowadays, thanks to dating websites and ‘hook-up’ apps, many find sexual partners