CHASS strategic plan for comment
CHASS is preparing for a major year of change in education, research and the creative arts. The new Board met in November to look at a draft strategic plan for 2009 and beyond is now seeking member feedback on priorities and goals. The draft plan is available in the members section and you can contact CHASS with your comments.
Newsletter: 10 December 2008
CHASS will make a short submission to the review of the role of the national broadcasters underway at the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy. The Australian Government should have a clear understanding of their role in knowledge transfer and public debate …
Media release: 3 December 2008
The Australian government has released the new guidelines for the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program and launched the 11th CRC selection round. The program will now include humanities, arts and social science and fosters utilisation of research by end-users.
"My aim in innovation is not to flood the country with shiny gadgets, but to change the culture. Of course we will need new technologies to answer the challenges and grasp the opportunities that lie before us. But we will also need new institutions, new forms of community - new ways of understanding ourselves and our world. In all of this, the humanities, arts and social sciences are critical."
Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, 3 September 2008.
Members' Events Calendar
12 February 2009 Social Change and Wellbeing Conference: 'The Good Life'
How social inclusion aspirations can contribute to 'the good life' for Australians
Brisbane
Griffith University
17 May 2009 10th National Rural Health Conference
Rural Health: the place to be for arts in health
Cairns
Queensland
Regional Arts Australia
23 July 2009 Collective Creativity
The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009
Sydney
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Article of the Day
Humanities Indicators Prototype
7 Jan 2009
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences this week launched the Humanities Indicators Prototype. For the first time a reliable and broad set of information indices will track key data and opinion on the humanities in the US with some fascinating results already available.
