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 for 2024 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 4 March 2024. 


Previously Funded Projects - 2023

  • Andrew Dougall & Andrew Phillips - Platformisation and international order 
  • Sam Hames, Michael Haugh, Martin Schweingberger, Renee Zahnow, Naomi Barnes - Studying the Development and Contestation of Discourses and Ideologies through Computational Approaches to Big Data on Online Platforms
  • Leah Henrickson - Love, Loss, and LLMS: User Experiences of LLM-Driven Human Versioning
  • Richard Murray - Bridging the Digital Divide in Australian Regional and Rural Journalism
  • Renee Zahnow, Bogden State, Same Hames, Jeremy Verrier - Online community dialogue and shared understandings of crime and deviance in Queensland and New Zealand neighbourhoods
  • Giang Nguyen-Thu - Fieldwork in Vietnam regarding digital infrastructure
  • Helen Marshall, Skye Doherty, Joanne Anderton, Kathleen Jennings - Supercharging the WhatIF Lab: Development of Creative Workshops for Internal and Industry Use
  • Lisa Featherstone, Cassandra Byrnes, Alex Bevan, Paige Dohaghy - Sexual Harms in Online Spaces: The Residential College Experience
  • Giselle Newton - DNA Datascapes: Experiences and imaginaries of DNA datafication
  • Luke Munn, Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, Leah Henrickson, Sungyong Ahn, Daniel McKewen - Taking AI on the Road: Workshopping a Critical AI Methods Platform
  • Kiah Smith, QCOSS, Anne-Catherine Bajard, Antonia Schiller - Civil society mapping for integrated action on sustainability and human rights in Qld: A pilot study