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Fellows honoured in Australia Day 2012 Honours List

The Academy congratulates four of its Fellows who have been awarded honours in the Australia Day 2012 Honours List: Professor Stuart Macintyre AO, Professor Peter McPhee AM, Emeritus Professor Roslyn Pesman AM, and Emeritus Professor Brian Fletcher OAM.

Professor Graeme Turner FAHA appointed to a reinvigorated PMSEIC

The Academy offers its warmest congratulations to past President Professor Graeme Turner FAHA for his re-appointment to the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

Professor Turner is one of world's foremost authorities on cultural studies and media communications. He has extensive experience across research and higher education policy settings and has been a member of PMSEIC since 2008.

Prime Minister Gillard announces an expanded role for Learned Academies

The Academy welcomes the Prime Minister’s reforms to Australia’s peak science advisory body, the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC), which will enable it to provide more timely independent scientific advice to Government on the immediate challenges and opportunities facing the nation. The restructure will also see Australia’s four Learned Academies play a vital role in informing national policy, bringing an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective to long-term issues.

Inspiring Australia grants open to humanities researchers

A competitive grants round to support all aspects of the Government’s Inspiring Australia strategy was announced on 16 January. Humanities researchers are eligible to apply for funding (from $5000 to $500,000) under the scheme, the objective of which is to “promote public appreciation not only of the role of the ‘enabling sciences’ (physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics), but also of the role of engineering, and the social sciences and humanities”. The deadline for applications is 4.00pm AEDST, 29 February 2012. More information is available on the Unlocking Australia's Potential website.

Professor Tom Griffiths FAHA joins the centennial voyage to Mawson’s Huts

Professor Tom Griffiths, Academy Fellow and Antarctic historian from the School of History, ANU, is participating in the Australian Antarctic Division’s centennial voyage to Mawson’s Huts at Commonwealth Bay which departed Hobart on 5 January 2012. The voyage celebrates Australia’s first expedition to Antarctica and Douglas Mawson’s legendary expedition of 1911 to 1914. You can follow Professor Griffiths' expedition blog here.

Industrial Transformation Programme

Humanities researchers should note the Government’s recently announced Industrial Transformation Programme worth $249 million. Up to 50 training centres will be established with approximately 20 of these to “include training in social impact, inclusion and industrial and community transformation”. Up to $1 million per year will be provided for each centre for up to three years. Details on the application process will be posted on the ARC’s website in early in 2012.


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