Several of the higher education sector’s peak bodies and groups have welcomed the government’s wish to bring higher social and economic benefits to the country by ramping up the commercialisation of Australian research.  In a consultation paper released last week, ...

With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.  The Australian Government’s ...

Targeted grants from La Trobe, Medibank and Optus will help La Trobe University researchers investigate ways of rapidly improving community health and wellbeing as the spectre of COVID-19 hangs over our health system. Under the “Rapid Response Research” scheme, three ...

One of the world’s most-promising early career researchers has received a generous $8 million-dollar grant from Terry Snow and the Snow family to pursue research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer. Dr Marian Burr ...

Researchers at Curtin University have received a grant of $737,689 to help develop an affordable and effective treatment for patients with chronic and severe wounds. The grant was announced by the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, following the latest grant ...

Thousands of highly trained, specialised academics who are casual or on a  fixed term-contract face an uncertain – even precarious – future as COVID-19 and diplomatic tensions threaten to cripple Australia’s university system. According to Guardian Australia, Dr Yaegan Doran ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has outlined how its members are tackling COVID-19 in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region while calling on the government for more research funding. The IRU group (comprising seven universities) is focusing on three ...

The head of Universities Australia (UA) has urged the government to prioritise investment in university research, arguing it is critical to Australia’s economic and social development in the future. As sobering new modelling estimates “up to 38 per cent of ...

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has extended the deadline for several prestigious humanities research grants, as COVID-19 continues to cause significant disruptions to work and personal life. Australia’s peak humanities body has now extended the deadline for the grants below ...

The Australian Research Council’s practices and guidelines were scrutinised heavily last week during a senate estimates hearing chaired by Senator Kim Carr. The committee was told that no ARC-funded research projects had breached the Defence Control Act, despite the ARC ...