The Australian Academy of the Humanities’ submission to the Strategic Examination of Research and Development (SERD) seeks to widen the lens on where R&D benefits the Australian economy, and why HASS is critical to this mission.
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The Australian Research Council’s reinvention of the National Competitive Grants Program provides a rare opportunity to turbo-charge early-stage research.
To position Australia and its citizens to thrive, the Australian Academy of the Humanities calls on our next government to back Australian thinking. Download the PDF version here (128KB).
The 2025 Trendall Lecture was presented by Professor Caitie Barrett of Cornell University. An expert in household archaeology, Professor Barrett examines the prevalence of “Nilotic” scenes within the excavated residences of Pompeii, and what these detailed, and often fantastical scenes, tell us about the everyday Roman’s perception of empire.
Minister Ed Husic announces Professor Tony Haymet FTSE, world-leading oceanographer as Australia’s next Chief Scientist.
AAH is proud to be signatories to the Australian Council of Learned Academies’s (ACOLA) statement on funding cuts to the New Zealand Marsden Fund. Australia’s Learned Academies support humanities and social sciences research and our New Zealand colleagues.
A new AAH and ACOLA research report shows outputs from Australia-Indonesia bilateral research relationships are at an all-time high — with benefits to global health, energy, trade, people and culture — with further opportunities to grow. At the same time, researchers warn we risk taking this relationship for granted, with a decline in language capability causing concern.
In his address at the Annual Academy Dinner on 14 November 2024, Professor Glyn Davis AC FASSA, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (and honours student of Donald Horne), reflected on Horne as a ‘public intellectual’ and the space left behind in Australia’s discourse since his death. Download a PDF of the speech here.
Few 55-year-old organisations could still yarn with a founding member — in that way the Academy of the Humanities is in a unique and privileged position. Now 97, Foundation Fellow Emeritus Professor Francis West FAHA shares a few curious stories of the early years of the Academy and reflects on where it is now.
The career of highly respected German Studies scholar, Dr Margaret Anne Rose FAHA FRHistS, reveals the power of connecting literature, philosophy, political thought, art and history in humanistic discovery. Her award winning research shows the power of ideas in changing human history.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities welcomes the revitalisation of the National Science and Research Priorities (NSRPs) released yesterday by the Chief Scientist.