The Digital Cultures and Societies Funding Scheme will open in march 2025 for applications from HASS researchers.
Purpose and Approach
The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences works with researchers across the humanities and social sciences to:
Foster vibrant, collaborative, and inter-disciplinary culture around digital cultures and societies research focussed on creativity, quality and diversity.
Create scale to compete for competitive funding, act as node in larger bids, establish ourselves as an ongoing centre and infrastructure.
Develop partnerships across other universities, public sector, cultural institutions, civil society, and industry.
Invest in engagement through public events and storytelling.
Support the development of diversified research income.
Funding is available in 2025 (and will run for one year until June 2026) for HASS researchers to pitch a project. Applications are welcome that provide innovative ways to:
Advance a research collaboration that needs targeted support to take it to the next level on a project idea.
Foster an emerging external partnership that would be supported by directed activity/engagement.
Prepare and submit an external funding bid that would be benefit from strategic support.
Complete a key research output that will boost track record development of you and your team.
Scheme Documentation
Submission
Applicants are required to discuss their projects before applying with the Director at digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au to ensure they meet the scheme objectives and draw on both cash and in-kind contributions from DCS where appropriate.
Applications must be submitted to digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au by Monday 21 April 2025.
Previously Funded Projects - 2024
Maggie Nolan – Digital Databases, Connectivity and Storytelling
Katelyn Barney – Preserving First Nations languages through music and digital storying: A pilot project
Garth Stahl – Investigating how boys and young men experience their digital lives in Australia
Giselle Newton – Testimonies of lived experience: understanding the role of people with lived experience in policy reform
Andrea Alarcon – Mapping informal economies via Facebook ads
Luke Munn – All of Culture in a Single File: Exploring MetaCLIP Metadata
Christina Gowlett – Online search skills: An investigation into what’s taught and what’s needed in high schools