Media Release: August 2024 The Board of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Prerana Mehta as its next Chief Executive Officer. After joining CSIRO as Head of Global in 2022, Prerana became Head of Strategic Partnerships Group in 2023, where she was responsible for growing the organisation’s…
Health: how to focus on the sustainability of Australia’s health care system? | ACOLA Parliamentary Library Seminars This seminar is part of a collaboration between the Parliamentary Library and the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) to bring Australia’s leading minds from Australia’s Learned Academies and other experts to important topics of interest to Parliament. Health:…
Building Australia’s Mega-Engineering | ACOLA Parliamentary Library Seminars This seminar is part of a collaboration between the Parliamentary Library and the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) to bring Australia’s leading minds from Australia’s Learned Academies and other experts to important topics of interest to Parliament. Building Australia’s mega-engineering – how do we stack up globally?…
The Australian Academy of Science is hosting its annual Symposium in November.
Symposium dinner: Monday 13 November, with guest speakers Peter Hartcher, his Excellency the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC, and Her Excellency Ms Caroline Kennedy.
Symposium: Tuesday 14 November, with the theme ‘International scientific collaborations in a contested world.’
Check out the website for more details and to book tickets.
16-17 November, Melbourne
Humans have been enamoured with robots and automation since antiquity. Today, human-machine relations are as complex as ever.
Exploring automated morgues, virtual autopsies, digital human rights, and our accountability for machines, join us for our 54th Annual Academy Symposium. Tickets on sale now.
New Fellows Showcase and Gala Dinner
Thursday 26 October
New Fellows Showcase – welcome ATSE’s new Fellows with the showcase theme ‘Breaking barriers: Realising Australia’s technological advantage’.
Awards Gala Dinner – celebrate the ATSE Awards winners across seven prestigious categories
Four of Australia’s most promising early career researchers have been named recipients of the 2023 Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research, presented by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
A scientist dedicated to reducing harm in health care has won the 2023 Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Outstanding Female Researcher Medal.
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder AO is a world-renowned rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who revolutionised the way the public and health practitioners treat and manage back pain.
24 November, Canberra
Explore critical issues surrounding our current and future digital world at the 2023 Annual Symposium, Digital Society: Social science perspectives for a better future.
This symposium will tackle the pivotal policy and social questions that demand our attention as we navigate the path forward. Be a part of shaping a better future by joining us at this thought-provoking event.
Dr Sarah Kirby is the recipient of the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ prestigious 2023 McCredie Musicological Award, recognising outstanding contribution to Musicology by an Australian scholar.
Musicology is the scholarly study of music that aims to explore its cultural and/or historical context, its aesthetic features as a form of human expression, the modes of performance associated with it, and its role as a social and political activity.
Australia’s leading engineers and technologists call for net zero by 2035
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has called on the Federal Government to commit to an ambitious target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
The organisation, representing nearly 900 of Australia’s most distinguished engineers and applied scientists, has stated in a new position statement, that immediate, substantial and concerted action is needed to rescue the diminishing window of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Workshop Program grants.
The projects span a wide range of social science disciplines, from mental health to migration, Indigenous governance, biodiversity, and decolonisation. They are a testament to the diverse and impactful work of social scientists.
