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Having supported hundreds of scholars over more than five decades, the Publication Subsidy Scheme is one of the Academy’s longest running awards programs.
Our Publication Subsidy Scheme supports quality publication in the humanities, with funding awarded to early career researchers to support costs associated with publication, such as illustrations, maps, and copyright fees.
In the spirit of Humanities Australia, the Academy’s journal, Emerita Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA writes about the challenges faced by the humanities in the age of fake news, pressure on academics to publish at all costs and rising international tensions.
Zac Roberts, a Yuin scholar from the South Coast of New South Wales, has been awarded the 2022 John Mulvaney Fellowship to support his research into Indigenous-Jewish relations.
In the spirit of Humanities Australia, the Academy’s journal, Professor Joe Lo Bianco FAHA contributes this essay about current challenges in the Pacific.
Two Academy Fellows are among the list of those recognised in the prestigious 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Emeritus Professor Lesley Head FASSA FAHA, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, today announced the resignation of long-serving Executive Director, Dr Christina (Tina) Parolin, effective November 25, 2022.
Climate change projections are indicating more droughts and floods in the next few years, but how should we think about risk, variability and change?
For 2022’s first President’s Conversation on 8 June, Academy President Emeritus Professor Lesley Head FASSA FAHA brought together a panel of experts from linguistics, ancient history, legal scholarship, risk perception analysis and environmental management to ask how we might learn from ancient societies, our legal frameworks and people on the ground to manage and mitigate the impacts of climate change on our water systems.
With the Federal Election now set for 21 May, the Academy is keen to engage on issues of priority to the humanities and arts sectors.
In the spirit of Humanities Australia, the Academy’s journal, we’re introducing a new series of essays by Fellows across a wide range of topics. This month, Academy President Emeritus Professor Lesley Head FASSA FAHA discusses reframing climate change as a social issue.
In this piece originally published in The Conversation, Academy Fellow Sheila Fitzpatrick examines the notion of Ukraine as “borderland”.
ACOLA’s members, Australia’s Learned Academies, are deeply shocked and condemn the military operation by the Russian Government towards Ukraine. International disputes should be resolved through the rules-based order, according to the principles of international law and with the utmost respect for human rights and lives, and the territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations.
We, the Presidents of Australia’s Learned Academies, are committed to a research and innovation system underpinned by the expertise and talent of researchers across the sciences, humanities, technology and engineering, social sciences, and health and medicine.