Registration is now open for a series of workshops to be held in conjunction with the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting. Facilitated by leading Australian and international scholars these workshops will take place on 27 March at ANU and include sessions on data management fundamentals for the humanities, document-based encoding, and mapping and spatial visualisation. Places are limited. To RSVP see workshop website.

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Information sessions for the Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) programme are being held in capital cities between 13 and 24 February. This 15th funding round targets social innovation, sustainable regional communities, and clean manufacturing. Further details about the CRC programme and the information sessions can be found on the CRC website.

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The Academy welcomes the release of the consultation paper by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE), Refreshing the National Research Priorities. The paper proposes the addition of a fifth National Research Priority (NRP) to better reflect the priority of the humanities, arts and social science (HASS) disciplines to the national research enterprise. The paper also proposes to refine the existing NRPs so they remain relevant as broad statements of the Government's aspirations for publicly funded research. Submissions are due 5 March 2011. See website for more details.

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The Academy congratulates Emeritus Professor J.V.S. Megaw AM FAHA who has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (founded in 1780). The Society allows a maximum of twenty-five Honorary Fellows who are recognised for their eminence in any branch of antiquarian study.

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The Academy is delighted to announce that it has awarded 12 travel bursaries for early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to attend the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities (aaDH), Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting.

A draft conference programme is now available.

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The Australian Academy of Science, in association with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Australian Research Council, invites applications from Australian researchers to undertake Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japan. Applications are welcome from researchers in the humanities. The closing date is Friday 16 March 2012.

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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.

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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.

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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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The priorities for the Government’s 15th Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) funding round are social innovation, sustainable regional communities and clean manufacturing. Information sessions are being held in major cities throughout February. Applications close 14 June 2012. For more details visit the CRC website.

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Tributaries: A Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water aims to help the water sector gain better access to social and cultural research expertise, and assist researchers to make connections with each other. Compiled by Justine Humphry, Zoë Sofoulis and Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay, the directory is available for free download from Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney.

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Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson AM FAHA was elected as President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities at the Annual General Meeting of the Fellows of the Academy on 19 November 2011.

Professor Johnson is only the second female President since the formation of the Academy in 1969.

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Griffith Review and The Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers of the University of Melbourne recently announced a series of innovative master classes addressing the gap between the high quality of Australian academic research and the interests of the wider public, key policy-makers and international markets.

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The ARC has released the Australian Laureate Fellowships Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2012. Supporting documentation and a draft Funding Agreement will be available shortly. For more information, visit the Australian Laureate Fellowships page.

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To facilitate cultural cooperation beyond Europe, the European Commission provides funds for cooperation projects with Third Countries. For 2013, these funds can be used by Australian cultural organisations in collaboration with European partners. For application information see website.

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Leading publishers, booksellers, academics and librarians discussed the future for the academic book in Australia at a forum organised by the National Scholarly Communication Forum under the auspices of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

More information about the forum, including presentations, is available on the website.

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The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) is currently conducting a survey to identify best practice models for supporting career development for Australian researchers across all disciplines. Take the survey.

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The Academy offers its warmest congratulations to John Tranter for winning the poetry category of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for 2011 for his book Starlight: 150 poems (University of Queensland Press).

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Professor Marilyn Lake FAHA talks about the shape of Australian history, funding crises in Australian universities, and how a perspective informed by ‘long’ history and comparative cultural knowledge can help us respond to current policy debates.

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Australian Book Review is now calling for entries in the sixth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. Calibre is a peak award for the essay in Australia, and worth $10,000 in total. Applications close 1 December 2011.

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Applications are now open for the Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Programme for Japan. Up to 100 scholarships will be offered by this one-off programme, which is intended provide assistance for education exchange in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011.

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The Academy welcomes the launch of the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) which aims to raise the profile of language educators and public awareness of the cultural, strategic and economic importance of language education for Australia.

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The Academy of the Humanities welcomes the establishment of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Association will act to support and extend links between digital humanities researchers, improve professional development opportunities and provide international leverage for local projects and initiatives.

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