Professor Paul Memmott wins National Teaching Award
Professor Paul Memmott wins National Teaching Award.

British Birth Cohort Studies: A unique research resource
British Birth Cohort Studies:  A unique research resource Presenter:  Lisa Calderwood, Senior Survey Manager, British Birth Cohorts, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Edu...

2009 Poverty in Queensland Report
The University of Queensland Social Research Centre (UQSRC) was commissioned by the Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) to produce the 2009 Poverty...

Seminar - Poverty and Ethnicity in the UK
Poverty and Ethnicity in the UK Presented by Dr Lucina Platt, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. Date:  Frida...

Seminar - The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain Presented by Stephen Jenkins, Professor of Economics in the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK.

Boilerhouse publication celebrates the identity of Ipswich
The evolution of Ipswich as a City has been captured in a new e-book published by University of Queensland researchers. The community publication Mines, Mills and Sho...

Professor Janeen Baxter elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
 

Community Attitudes Survey: Volunteers Sought
Community Attitudes Survey:  Volunteers Sought  

Spinifex study looks to nature
Combining Aboriginal knowledge and Western science to create building materials of the future

The 2009 SBS and ISSR Research and Innovation Awards
The SBS Faculty and ISSR are committed to encouraging innovation and creativity in our early career researchers to help them achieve success.  Our Research and Innovation Awards recognize those members of staff who have made an outstanding cont...

AHURI 2010 Research Agenda
The AHURI research program $2.6 million is invested annually through the AHURI Research Progra...

Rebuilding Institutional Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Societies - An Asia Pacific Case Study
Rebuilding institutional legitimacy in post-conflict societies - An Asia Pacific case study

ACPACS contributes to Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation Dialogue Series
The latest Berghof Handbook Dialogue (No 8), published in April 2009, focuses on ‘Building Peace in the Absence of States: Challenging the Discourse on State Failure’.  ISSR researchers in the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflic...

Postdoctoral Research Opportunities in the Institute for Social Science Research
UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Applications Applications are currently open under the University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for funding commencing in 2010. A limited number of Fe...

Aboriginal architecture expert receives Stanner Award
Paul Memmott's acclaimed book Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley has been recognised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, recently taking out the prestigious Stanner Award. 

ACPACS features in special issue of Peace Review
The first issue of the journal Peace Review in 2009 has as its focus hybrid political orders in fragile regions of the Global South. It is the result of a collaboration between ISSR researchers in the Austra...

ISSR participates in Global Sustainability Summit
Professor Brian Head participated in a Think Tank on Global Sustainability issues held in Abu Dhabi in January.  A brief report on this event may be found in the attached

ISSR Researchers Receive National Awards
Several ISSR researchers, and researchers with strong links to the Institute received national research awards for their achievements in 2008. Paul Memmott, who will be joining ISSR in 2009, is the 2008 winner o...

ISSR Researchers Successful in Recent ARC Linkage Round
ISSR researchers Dr Jonathan Corcoran and Professor Bob Stimson have won a $110,000 ARC Linkage Grant for their project “Enhanced agency response strategies through modelling geo‑temporal characteristics of emergency servic...

UQ Boilerhouse Community Engagement Centre wins Vice Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Award
Associate Professor Michael Cuthill, Director of the UQ Boilerhouse Community Engagement Centre was presented with a Vice Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Award at The University of Queensland’s annual Diversity Week award presentation,...