DCS Funding Scheme

The Digital Cultures and Societies Funding Scheme will open in early 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 for 2025 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

  • Application Form
  • Grant Guidelines 
  • Condition of Award 

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 January 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