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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is delighted to announced that Associate Professor Nicholas Carah, from the School of Communication and Arts, will be the inaugural Director of the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub.

Despite efforts to widen participation in higher education, students who are the first in their family to attend university remain severely under-represented.

Former typist at The University of Queensland Akiko Kirkham has been reunited with her Japanese typewriter after more than a decade.

Four adults with Down syndrome have been hired as research assistants in a new study from The University of Queensland which explores the quality of life of Gen Zs (18-30 year olds) with Down syndrome.

Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana grew up in a safe house with some of Chile’s most-wanted political fugitives.

Fast forward more than 30 years and she is now a senior lecturer at UQ's School of Languages and Cultures.

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could be lost by the end of this century.

Identical twins Catherine and Elizabeth Vandeleur have more in common than just their looks and birth date–they also chose the same career.

Making the classroom a safe and accepting place is the goal for transgender University of Queensland teaching graduate, Genevieve James.

UQ HASS members of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society have led a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Persons with Disability.

Originally a boy from country Queensland, Dr John Harrison left Bundaberg State High School and came to UQ in 1971 on a teachers’ scholarship. 50 years later and it’s hard to imagine the campus without him.

Dr Alison Crowther is in the midst of research that addresses historical riddles more than 1000 years old. Her latest findings on the movement of people, plants, animals, goods and customs across the Indian Ocean, have been ground-breaking.

At HASS, our teaching and learning goals are founded on enhancing the student learning experience through innovation, excellence and continuous improvement.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) alumnus Sophie Rose has been recognised as one of Australia’s leaders of the future after receiving the first ever Quentin Bryce John Monash Scholarship.

Dots+Loops announce their selected emerging artists for the 2021 Performance Fellowship and 2021-22 Composition Fellowship programs.

How four dictionaries and two grammars of traditional Indigenous languages were co-compiled.

University of Queensland alumnus Tahlia Smith will be heading to Oxford after being named Queensland's 2022 Rhodes Scholar.

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle enables policy makers and police departments around the world to understand patterns in crime interventions so they can make evidence-based decisions for preventing crime and reducing its impact, and by doing so keep their places on the planet safe.

A life-long fascination with marine life, a passion for creative problem-solving, and a keen interest in how innovation intersects with environment and sustainability led Dr Pedro Fidelman to UQ’s interdisciplinary research community three years ago.

Claire spent 36 years cut off from the outside world in two repressive religious sects, following a strict form of Tridentine Catholicism. It was only by interrogating the status quo that she was able forge a new life for herself and her eight children.

Congratulations to linguist Professor Felicity Meakins and her research team who have won the Eureka prize for excellence in interdisciplinary scientific research.