Australian researchers who receive United States funding have been asked to disclose links to China and whether they agree with US President Donald Trump's "two sexes" executive order. Group of Eight (Go8) universities are concerned funding for projects done in ...

A Strategic Examination of Research and Development review is to evaluate how to maximise Australia's existing research and development (R&D) spend, and convince industry to adopt innovation. The review, announced in the 2024-25 budget, is to be led by the ...

A University of Tasmania change proposal is considering disestablishing a large part of the College of Arts, Law and Education's academic research support model to place more focus on the student experience, which academics say will make it harder to ...

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic has announced a 10-year plan for science investment and research that outlines the government's top five priorities for STEM. The National Science Statement and National Science and Research Priorities put the Albanese government's Future ...

One of the nation’s leading scientists, Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt, has warned that his field of optical astronomy faces extinction in Australia in three years because astronomers are poised to lose access to the big optical telescopes needed to make ...

Group of Eight universities have urged the federal government to adopt a 10-year plan to lift Australia’s investment in research and development to three per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to boost the nation’s capacity for productivity growth. A ...

Expressions of interest are now open for Aurora Education Foundation's First Nations Cancer Scholarship, a $5.9 million investment to support Indigenous health professionals and researchers complete postgraduate study or research in a cancer-related field. The collaboration, between the Albanese government, ...

Canada will join the EU’s massive research funding program, upping the pressure on the Australian government to explain why it won’t explore joining the scheme. Last week Canada and the EU signed an agreement for the country to join the ...

Former Western Sydney University chancellor Peter Shergold is the powerful new chair of the Australian Research Council (ARC) which, following a review last year, will make independent decisions about most research grants. Professor Shergold will head a new nine-member board to ...

A new university-industry partnership will see industrial design students from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) given the opportunity to pitch designs to a furniture retailer with a view to putting them into production. Seven fourth year industrial design ...