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  • Professor Heather Zwicker

    The Real YouQ with Professor Heather Zwicker

    Published on: 19 December 2024
    The latest edition of The RealUQ profiles Professor Heather Zwicker, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) with specialty research areas that include postcolonial and feminist theories.
  • Hannah Smith.

    New Colombo Plan Scholars announced

    Published on: 17 December 2024
    UQ’s most successful and largest New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholar cohort to date was announced by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) yesterday.
  • Producers Natalie Rose Lloyd-Smith and her partner Richard

    A quest to catch Santa Claus

    Published on: 9 December 2024
    We all have those signature festive movies we watch during the silly season to get into the Christmas spirit, but here is another one to add to your list.

  • Celebrating HASS research

    Published on: 2 December 2024
    The Australian Research Council have announced the successful ARC Discovery Project applicants for 2025, with HASS securing 10 out of 16 applications that totalled $4,825,345 in funding.
  • Professor Chris Clarkson.

    UQ scholars elected to Australian Academy of the Humanities

    Published on: 28 November 2024
    Three University of Queensland academics have received the nation’s highest honour in humanities.

  • Facebook ads targeting people at risk of harm under scrutiny

    Published on: 18 November 2024
    A new study has revealed how alcohol and gambling companies target people with Facebook advertising for addictive products, with the research set to expand in coming years.
  • AP Photo/Sergei Grits

    The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan

    Published on: 12 November 2024
    The next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, is about to get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.

  • Celebrating teaching excellence

    Published on: 8 November 2024
    Congratulations to our UQ educators who were celebrated this Teaching and Learning Week for their commitment to enhancing student learning with creative and innovative practices.
  • Professor Greg Marston.

    New Fellows for the Academy of the Social Sciences

    Published on: 5 November 2024
    The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has announced the appointment of 20 new Fellows for 2024.

  • 2024 UQ Alumni Award winners

    Published on: 1 November 2024
    Congratulations to our 2024 UQ Alumni Award winners!
  • Sun Stadium.

    New sun stadium for UQ

    Published on: 1 November 2024
    UQ's new Sun Stadium is officially open! 
  • Jane Willcock, Senior Registrar and Museum Operations Coordinator for UQ’s Anthropology Museum accepting the award on behalf of the curatorial team from Museums and Galleries Queensland’s Chairperson, Karina Devine. Photo credit: Photography by Katie Bennett, courtesy of Museums & Galleries Queensland.

    2024 Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards

    Published on: 17 October 2024
    Congratulations to The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum and Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation who received a Highly Commended at the 2024 Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards held recently in Toowoomba.

  • Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood

    Published on: 14 October 2024
    If you’ve ever seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered does all that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script?

  • Katelyn Redinger.

    Queensland needs more teachers

    Published on: 10 October 2024
    Teachers are in short supply across the state, especially in regional, rural and remote areas of Queensland and we need more people using their passion and skills to educate our Queensland kids.

  • UQ Research and Innovation Awards for Excellence

    Published on: 8 October 2024
    The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences had much to celebrate last week at UQ’s Research and Innovation Week with a fantastic showcase of the depth, creativity, and impact of the work we do.
  • Student stories produced as part of Binung Ma Na Du are now used in classrooms.

    Strength in sharing stories and living histories

    Published on: 4 October 2024
    A project co-designed by community and University of Queensland researchers has set a benchmark for how school curriculums can reflect Indigenous knowledge.
  • (L to R) Violet Wadrill, Professor Felicity Meakins and Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal working on book translations.

    Book reveals secrets of ‘fascinating’ termites

    Published on: 13 September 2024
    A children’s book which takes readers inside the life of termites, published with the help of a University of Queensland linguist, has received a top literary award.
  • Paul Dean.

    Critically acclaimed Australian musician takes up new role at UQ

    Published on: 2 September 2024
    One of Australia’s leading musicians and educators will join The University of Queensland as the Kinnane Professor of Music early next year.

  • Welcome to new HASS Faculty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

    Published on: 29 August 2024
    A big welcome to new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff here in the Faculty. It is awesome to welcome them all and I am amazed by what they each bring to our Faculty.

  • Rewarding research and innovation

    Published on: 28 August 2024
    University of Queensland researchers have secured more than $7.2 million through the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) program to strengthen national research and innovation capacity.

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