Our impact

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

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.

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.

The University of Queensland is moving to protect Australia’s invaluable heritage of Indigenous languages with the development of a centralised digital archive.

The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) celebrated their 90th Anniversary last month, reflecting on how much its grown - today offering courses across more than 30 languages to its 2637 enrolled students.

AustLit has launched a new project that uses data to explore representations of AI in Australian literature.

Researchers from The University of Queensland conducted research for the Diversity in STEM Review about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ views on STEM, including increasing the use of Indigenous STEM knowledge and growing the number of Indigenous peoples in STEM.

New research released from the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador will help accelerate Australia’s progress towards a more equitable science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.

Translations of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders into 3 Pacific languages – Bislama, iTaukei, and Tok Pisin – were launched in Port Vila, Vanuatu on 21 February, following a partnership between the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pacific Regional office (OHCHR) and The University of Queensland’s Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P).

The strengths and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in STEM fields is being celebrated in a new podcast from The University of Queensland.