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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.
We need to understand our region so that we can find our way in it. Australia’s historic strength in Indonesia knowledge provides a basis for stronger positioning in the Southeast Asian region.
The UK experience has been that proactive R&D policy for creative services increases business expenditure on R&D (BERD).
The exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is an Indigenous Knowledge R&D success. It is currently touring Europe (so far, the UK, Germany, France and Finland), and showcased by global peak museum body, The Best in Heritage.
Arguably, trust and signalling on expertise are as important for the knowledge economy as the road, sea and air rules are for the physical economy. Attitudes towards expertise and trust in science will set the confident knowledge economies apart.
Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is already being trialled in humans to relieve sufferers of quadriplegia and epilepsy. As the sophistications of BCI push the boundaries of what we can do, we are faced with increasingly complex questions about what we should do.
For Associate Professor Amanda Harris FAHA and Professor Clint Bracknell FAHA, the co-editors of the new The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, understanding Australian music is as much about the past — the songs and music made in Australia since time immemorial — as it is about the present.
Professor Julia Kindt FAHA, a renowned classicist and Head of the Classical Studies Section, serves on the editorial board, for the benefit of the Fellowship. She describes launching the journal as “one of the most incredible things I’ve done”.
Do you know someone who speaks Mian? Arrernte? What about luški, the Vela Luka dialect of Croatian? Professor Marija Tabain FAHA knows language matters to people. As one of the world’s leading linguists, she’s working to document these languages for future generations.
Dr Kristie Flannery, a historian of the global Spanish empire, received a Humanities Travelling Fellowship to travel to Manila and Spain to access rare 17th and 18th-century documents. Her new research reconsiders the influence of slavery, and the wider Spanish empire, on shaping the Asia-Pacific region today.
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).
While social media has added a new dimension to disinformation, much of the approach by the Kremlin remains the same as it was forty years ago. Professor Emerita Alison Lewis FAHA, expert on the East German secret police, examines lessons from “Operation Denver”, a Soviet campaign to spread AIDS disinformation that made it all the way to Australian newspapers in 1987.