News - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences - University of Queensland

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences climbs to the top 25 in the global rankings

Published on: 20 May 2016

The University of Queensland has jumped to 21st in the world and is number one in Australia for social sciences and humanities research impact according to the latest Leiden Rankings.
UQ graduate pipped at Eurovision post after winning jury vote

Published on: 15 May 2016

University of Queensland music graduate Dami Im has wowed the world and blitzed the jury vote with a powerful grand final performance at the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden.
UQ joins forces with Village Roadshow Theme Parks

Published on: 22 April 2016

The University of Queensland’s Confucius Institute is collaborating with Village Roadshow Theme Parks (VRTP) to provide Chinese language and culture courses to theme park employees.
UQ teams up with government and industry to create change for rural schools

Published on: 22 April 2016

Reading comprehension levels of children in the Bowen Basin have improved thanks to a University of Queensland-led project.
UQ celebrates Shakespeare’s legacy

Published on: 11 April 2016

Four-hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, The University of Queensland will host a series of events in 2016 celebrating the poet’s life and times.
Brisbane’s 1980s alternative arts scene revisited in exhibition

Published on: 29 March 2016

A new exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum offers an insight into Brisbane’s energetic artist-run scene of the 1980s, a time of immense transformation.
When performers are in the zone, it’s spiritual, researcher finds

Published on: 14 March 2016

Prima ballerinas Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn reported entering altered states of consciousness and having “spiritual” experiences during performance, a UQ researcher says.
UQ to pay teacher test fees for education students

Published on: 14 March 2016

The University of Queensland will pay literacy and numeracy test fees for its teacher education students for the next three years.
Sending Shakespeare to prison

Published on: 25 January 2016

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