Tri Timer, an electronic race management system designed specifically for the Twin Towns Triathlon Club, is the latest recipient of the Opmantek Award for high-achieving final year students in Griffith University’s School of Information and Communication Technology.
With features including membership maintenance, race number administration, timing functions, general administration and individual performance seasonal points tallying, Tri Timer is the work of students Angela King, Hussah Alzunidy, Jake Braiding-Watson and Satishkumar Elumalai.
Runners-up were:
Purush Wilson and Mengru (Serena) Lyu
- Mind & Muscle, a promotional tool for a program aimed at reducing worker’s compensation claims via identification of physical and psychological stress, adopting a self-managed response and recovery process, and encouraging workplace happiness. Students: Purush Wilson and Mengru (Serena) Lyu. Client: Sven Roehrs, Focus Rehabilitation.
From left: Joseph Bannister, Gary Scott, Nicholas Smith and James Yeates
- Information Privacy Self-Assessment Tool, which provides guidance on compliance with relevant privacy legislation across Australian jurisdictions. Students: Joseph Bannister, Gary Scott, Nicholas Smith, Peter Hylton and James Yeates. Client: Glentworth.
The judging panel comprised Opmantek community manager and co-founder of StartUp Apprentice, Ms Sharon Hunneybell, City of Gold Coast Councillor Glenn Tozer, and Deputy Head of the School of ICT, Associate Professor Bela Stantic.
Opmantek is a Gold Coast-based company and a world leader in Network Management Software. CEO Mr Danny Maher launched the twice-yearly award in 2013.
“The Opmantek Award is a great opportunity for corporate, education and government to come together,” said Cr Tozer.
“Opmantek is exporting its product all around the world and that’s so exciting to have that emanating from the Gold Coast.
“It creates tremendous potential for Griffith students and you can see that in the quality of these products, each of which displays commercial potential beyond these individual projects.”
Professor Lex Brown, from Griffith University’s School of Environment, has received the UK Noise Abatement Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his international work in environmental acoustics.
The award was presented at the recent John Connell Awards 2015 Ceremony, held in the Palace of Westminster in London.
It honours key individuals who have made outstanding contributions to raising the profile of noise pollution as a critical environmental issue, and who have worked tirelessly over the course of their careers to effect solutions for the public benefit.
The award is the latest in a series of honours for Professor Brown, who since joining Griffith University in 1980 has led the emphasis on integrated assessment, namely the adaptation of environmental assessment tools to effectively integrate with planning activities including project development, plan-making, policy development and international development assistance.
In 2014, Professor Brown travelled to Chile to receive the prestigious Rose-Hulman Award for his international contribution to impact assessment. Also that year he received the Sustainability Excellence Award at the Pro Vice Chancellor’s Griffith Sciences Excellence Awards.
Professor Lex Brown and Pro Vice Chancellor (Griffith Sciences) Professor Debra Henly
Pro Vice Chancellor (Griffith Sciences) Professor Debra Henly congratulated Professor Brown on his latest success.
“This is a huge honour and very well deserved recognition for Professor Brown’s outstanding contribution over many years,” she said.
The John Connell Awards are named after the Noise Abatement Society’s founder, who lobbied the Noise Abatement Act through the British Parliament in 1960.
The annual awards, also known as the “Noise Oscars”, acknowledge the importance of the quality of sound in our lives, and champion vital advances in reducing the negative impact of unnecessary noise for the public benefit.
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By Richard Hil, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University and Kristen Lyon, Associate Professor Development Sociology, The University of Queensland.
Competition between universities is more intense than ever, resulting in a shift towards industry-relevant degrees.
But this attempt to link universities and the economy has not been universally successful so far. Employers still complain that graduates lack the necessary job skills. Research shows thousands of graduates are unable to obtain jobs of their choice.
Are universities then going about things in the wrong way? Is university all about being job-ready?
And in the drive to make graduates more employable and move up the global rankings, has students’ ability to learn and choose the courses they want to study taken a hit?
The corporatisation of our universities
Universities share a commitment to delivering courses and programs that meet the needs of industry and the economy more generally.
This has been achieved by linking tailored degrees to employment outcomes and, in the process, restructuring course offerings and content.
This has resulted in more performance-based assessment and work-ready criteria, such as graduate attributes, which seek to capture generic skills and abilities that can be applied in the workplace.
While policymakers, university administrators and employers champion links between universities and the economy, thousands of graduates are still struggling to find work.
This is especially true in fields like engineering, teaching, nursing, law, speech therapy, finance and commerce and accounting.
Despite such concerns, universities continue to reform and restructure programs and courses with industry in mind. Often the bigger picture is ignored.
One of the most significant shifts towards streamlined, industry-relevant degrees occurred in 2007 with the introduction of the so-called “Melbourne Model”.
Melbourne’s vice-chancellor, Glyn Davis, justified the consolidation of undergraduate degrees on the grounds that this would avoid duplication and the delivery of costly small courses.
But its primary focus was to make the university more “globally competitive” in an increasingly cut-throat international market.
When pursuit of profit gets in the way of learning
The university cut 96 programs and replaced them with six US-style, three-year undergraduate programs, which fed into various postgraduate programs.
This offered the university huge potential for income generation, by reducing teaching costs and increasing income by offering higher-priced postgraduate courses.
In 2007, Queensland University of Technology shut down its humanities courses due to high costs and poor employment outcomes. Michael Zimmer/flickr, CC BY-SA
Predictably, the most severe cuts were to arts courses. This in turn resulted in the shedding of dozens of staff, followed by protests by academics, students and some members of the public.
Despite this opposition, the Melbourne Model was a sign of things to come.
Earlier this year the University of Sydney, under the stewardship of vice-chancellor Michael Spence, sought to emulate the Melbourne Model and elevate Sydney in the university world rankings.
Spence’s management team did so by embarking on a similar process of course rationalisation. In June, the ABC reported that the proposed changes would mean reducing the current 122 degrees to just 20.
Spence argued that:
if it’s a degree that is going to make our graduates more internationally competitive, more employable, it might actually be expenditure that’s worth it.
Academics, administrative staff and students protested, arguing that staff redundancies would exacerbate an earlier round of cuts and reduce the quality and range of degrees.
Similar cuts to programs and staff at La Trobe University were also intended to boost its place in the world rankings.
According to vice-chancellor John Dewar, “efficiency and quality-driven reforms” would allow for the introduction of hallmark or niche degrees relevant to the workplace of the 21st century.
Such changes, he added, would result in a “rejuvenated university”. He neglected to mention that over 300 jobs would be lost and numerous units cut.
Similar restructuring exercises have occurred at the universities of Tasmania, Swinburne, Monash, Victoria, Curtin, Newcastle, Charles Sturt and University of Western Australia. Such rationalisation exercises cut at the heart of universities, removing the very assets for which institutions are renowned.
The many examples of cuts to courses are accompanied by far-reaching changes to course content, with more emphasis placed on vocational outcomes.
Skills and knowledge “competencies”, “attributes” and other measures of performance have turned traditionally accepted pedagogical priorities like “critical thinking” into commodities marketed at prospective employers through e-portfolios and job-ready CVs.
Although the humanities, arts and social sciences continue to make up two-thirds of the undergraduate intake, these areas have been subjected to deep cuts or, as in the case of La Trobe University, fine-tuned to meet industry needs, or abandoned altogether (as occurred at QUT) in favour of “creative industries”.
Elsewhere, cuts have been made to peace and conflict studies, history, gender studies, philosophy and many languages. Industrially relevant “hard sciences” and courses like business, commerce and accountancy have proliferated.
University education isn’t just about being ‘job ready’
Is there any alternative to this streamlined and homogenised market-led agenda?
The slow university movement is characterised by scholarship and teaching that slows down the pace of knowledge production and celebrates collective and creative endeavours.
Free universities and various independent colleges highlight the possibility of a more social rather than economic approach to higher education.
In practice this requires:
- reassessment of links between universities, government and business;
- the provision of more time and space for deeper learning;
- greater emphasis on critical thinking and community action;
- an education more relevant to everyday life.
Decoupling education from markets will be a vital step in ensuring a vibrant democratic future.
Kristen Lyons and Richard Hil will take part in panel debates on November 23 to discuss the issues raised in this article as part of the Challenging the Privatised University conference.
This article first appeared in The Conversation athttps://theconversation.com/a-shift-towards-industry-relevant-degrees-isnt-helping-students-get-jobs-46128
Katelyn Pomroy was still a month short of her 15th birthday when she attempted to round up a team of volunteers to take from the Gold Coast to Brisbane to help with the post-flood clean-up in 2011.
The logistics of the challenge would prove insurmountable for the enterprising teen on that occasion, but her passion for volunteering would not be deterred by the temporary setback.
Five years later the Griffith Honours College student is a driving force behind Youth for the Community, an initiative that has led to Katelyn securing the $8,000 top prize in a prestigious student competition run by Ernst and Young.
‘Survive the Panel’ invites students to pitch a big idea in a Dragons’ Den-type scenario, presenting the business case for the plan and how it stacks up financially.
“I saw an ad for it on Facebook and thought ‘Why not?’” Katelyn says.
Before she knew it, her 100-word spur-of-the-moment piece had landed her into the next round where the top 20 entrants were required to assemble a 4000-word business case.
Katelyn, a double degree student of forensic science and criminology and criminal justice, set to work and once her presentation had been drafted she sought the guidance of Griffith staff to identify ways to develop a sustainable business plan.
“I felt I need some advice on the business elements of my plan. I didn’t see it as a money-making venture and I wanted to keep it true to my idea.”
Katelyn’s idea was to develop an app that bridged the gap between not-for-profit community organisations looking for volunteers and young people interested in volunteering. The app will also include an option to volunteer in a natural disaster situation.
Joys
“Youth for the Community is an initiative that will allow youth to easily participate in volunteering activities within their community,” she explained to the panel in Sydney, after qualifying with three business students for the grand finale.
“The idea stemmed from my own volunteering experiences in high school, which enabled me to discover the benefits and joys of youth volunteering.
“Through this initiative I want to give other youth around Australia the opportunity to make a difference and gain life time experiences.”
Katelyn’s big idea caught the imagination of the judging panel which explored its far-reaching possibilities, particularly around corporate volunteering, during a challenging question-and-answer session at the end of the presentation.
“I had been curious if professionals and industry would connect with my concept,” she says. “But the potential benefits for large business organisations with a volunteering charter were obvious to the panel members.”
With the support of an Ernst and Young mentor and working with two other Griffith students, Katelyn hopes to start development of the app in early 2016.
She is confident that this venture will complement her volunteer role with the SES and a summer internship at the Centre for Ancient DNA in Adelaide to propel her towards a career with the federal police as a forensic biologist.
“Volunteering offers an excellent opportunity to align your skills and experience with your future career. It can provide an advantage when it comes to future opportunities down the track.
“I would encourage anyone interested in volunteering to think carefully about what they want to do. Don’t pick activities you’re not passionate about. If you’re not enjoying it, you’re not gaining the full benefit for yourself or for the community.”
Improving the experience for cancer patients undergoing treatments such as chemotherapy or a blood transfusion is the focus of new Griffith research which has received $1.1m in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding.
Cancer treatment often requires a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) to remain in a large vein for these treatments, as well as for the intake of medicines, fluids, nutrition and blood sampling.
Current PICC dressing and securement products are not preventing the 30% of PICCs that develop infection, occlusion, thrombosis or dislodgement, says Professor Claire Rickard from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland, therefore this trial will aim to reduce the incidence of PICC failure and test new dressings for their effectiveness, costs, comfort and practicality.
A world leading researcher in the area of intravenous catheters, Professor Rickard says that new products are now available on the market that may reduce complications.
“Australian cancer patients use 10,000 PICCs each year to receive chemotherapy and other anti-cancer agents, transfusions, hydration, nutrition, and for repeated blood tests.
“PICCs remain in place for weeks to many months, but complications are common – 30% of PICCs fail before treatment is complete, and this is likely due in part to inadequate dressing and securement. PICC failure includes infection, occlusion, thrombosis, and dislodgement.
“Such complications delay treatment, cause pain, prolong hospitalisation, significantly increase healthcare costs and workloads, and catheter associated bloodstream infections (CABSIs) can be fatal.”
Collaboration with hospitals and universities
Run in collaboration with hospitals and other universities around Australia, the nursing-led study is multi-centre and will compare four types of dressing and securement combinations.
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these treatments will be tested and it is expected that the new approaches can prevent half of all CABSIs, and one quarter of all PICC failures.
“We believe that the results will prevent 1,000 PICC failures including 400 CABSIs in Australia each year. This will save $8 million, 4,000 hospital days, avoid 1,000 replacement PICC insertions, avoid treatment interruptions, reduce workload, and improve the patient experience of cancer treatment,” says Professor Rickard.
As Director of the Griffith based Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR), Professor Rickard leads the largest research group in the world looking at intravascular access. And the success of its research can be measured in hundreds of millions of dollars of reduced health care costs world-wide, as well as improved patient comfort and health outcomes.
“It doesn’t matter what health issues you have; whether you are treated in an ambulance or a hospital; whether you have cancer treatment in the community setting, or you need hydration or antibiotics; whenever you need sustained access to a blood vessel to provide treatment, a catheter must be inserted into a vein or artery,” Professor Rickard says.
The Griffith University EcoCentre will facilitate the Queensland operation of One Tree Per Child, the environmental initiative created by singer Olivia Newton-John and co-founder of Planet Ark, Jon Dee.
The Queensland program was launched last week at Lota State School when Mr Dee was joined by the Brisbane City Council’s Wynnum-Manly representative, Councillor Peter Cumming, EcoCentre personnel and Lota students for a tree-planting ceremony.
The event also represented the beginning of the EcoCentre’s role with One Tree Per Child, a platform for school-aged children to connect with the environment and their communities through tree-planting.
The Federal Government is also backing the initiative, recently pledging $300,000 to help plant 100,000 trees nationally.
EcoCentre manager Ms Delwyn Langdon says the connection between Griffith University and One Tree Per Child is exciting.
“Environmental studies and sustainability practice have been essential to the Griffith philosophy from the start,” says Ms Langdon. “Our involvement with One Tree Per Child continues that commitment.
“We will effectively be running the state program from the EcoCentre on our Nathan campus, and we’re very excited to be reaching out to schools to spread the message of sustainability.”
Since co-founding Planet Ark in 1991 with Australian tennis great Pat Cash, Jon Dee has driven many successful environmental programs, including DoSomething and One Tree Per Child. In 2010 he was named NSW Australian of the Year.
During a visit to the Nathan campus in 2014, Mr Dee praised Griffith University’s commitment and leadership on social and environmental issues.
“Initiatives such as the EcoCentre are proof that Griffith does not just talk about taking positive action; it goes out and does it,” he said.
“All campaigns, no matter what they are, need change agents to lead the way. Griffith University is clearly taking on the responsibility to be one of those change agents.
“In terms of environmental sustainability, it’s about communicating a compelling message that encourages others to recognise the value of contributing to the common and greater good.
“That way, sustainability can become second nature for everyone, and that can only be of benefit for us and the world.”
Key research projects at Griffith University have received more than $7.8 million in funding from the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
Announced today (November 9)by the Federal Minister for Health, The Honourable Sussan Ley MP, 13 Griffith projects from across the health and medical science fields received grants totalling $7,887,146.00. They were among 836 new research projects sharing in $630million in NHRMC funding.
The Griffith allocation also includes $2 million for a research collaboration between the Institute for Glycomics and the University of Melbourne.
Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Ned Pankhurst said the funding would strengthen a range of important research projects and confirmed the University’s standing as an institute conducting high quality and also highly relevant research.
“This funding supports both ongoing and newprojectsinthe University,​ across a wide range of health disciplines,” he said.
“However, all the projects are characterised by top quality researchers working in high level ​national andinternational collaborations, the outcomes of which will change lives.”
More than half the funding for Griffith University was awarded to projects within the Institute for Glycomics, withfive research projects and two fellowships securing $4.17 million to explore various bacteria and their infection pathways, and viruses that have long term health impacts such as arthritis.
Institute Director Professor Mark von Itzstein said the project grants cemented the Institute’s reputation as a leading biomedical research facility.
“Our research is a brave new frontier and we are making exciting advances towards the discovery of new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for significant diseases,” he said.
“We have grown from a handful of researchers to more than 180 of the best from across the world.”
The grants
To profile their research into IV drip best practice.
Professor Claire Rickard
Professor Claire Rickard, Centre for Health Practice Innovation –Peripherally InSerted CEntral catheter Securement: the PISCES Trial– $1,101,717.35
Dr Kathy Andrews
A/Professor Katherine Andrews, and Dr Tina Skinner-Adams, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery –Proguanil: Old Drug, New Tricks– $536,516.50
A/Professor Katherine Andrews, and Dr Tina Skinner-Adams, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery –New drugs for malaria prevention– $695,557.20
Professor Suresh Mahalingam & Dr Lara Herrero, Institute for Glycomics –Novel Insights into the Pathobiology of Alphavirus Infections– $827,660.00
Professor Suresh Mahalingam
Dr Lara Herrero
Professor Mike Jennings & Dr Chris Day, Institute for Glycomics –Glycan-glycan interactions between bacterial pathogens and host cells: A novel mechanism of bacterial adherence, a new opportunity for strategies to treat and prevent disease and a new paradigm in interactions between macromolecules– $1,059,344.00
Dr Kate Seib
Professor Michael Jennings
Dr Kate Seib & Dr Chris Day, Institute for Glycomics –The glycointeractome of pathogenic Neisseria: understanding disease and defining vaccine targets –$431,012.00
Dr John Atack
Dr Chris Day
Dr Kate Seib & Dr John Atack, Institute for Glycomics –Phasevarion mediated virulence mechanisms of the human pathogensMoraxella catarrhalisand non-typeableHaemophilus influenzae– $626,979.00
Dr Ali Zaid
Dr Ali Zaid, Institute for Glycomics – Mapping the spatio-temporal dynamics of alphavirus-induced myoskeletal disease – $491,503.00
Associate Professor Stuart Kinner
A/Professor Stuart Kinner, Griffith Institute of Criminology& Professor Adrian Miller, Indigenous Research Unit–Deaths in young people involved in the youth justice system: towards evidence-based prevention– $620,704.80
Professor Nigel McMillan, Molecular Basis of Disease –Aurora A as a novel therapeutic target for HPV-driven cancers –$762,327.50
Professor Nigel McMillan
In addition to the above project grants,Dr Michael Batzloff and Dr Manisha Pandey from the Institute for Glycomicswere awarded a grant in collaboration with A/Prof Andrew Steer (University of Melbourne) and others for Group A streptococcal human challenge study: accelerating vaccine development – $2,000,000
Professor Sally-Ann Poulsen,Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery (with Prof Gerald Atkins, University of Adelaide) -Osteocyte regulation of bone mass – $837,600
Early Career Fellowships — Peter Doherty Postdoctoral Award
Dr Javier Chen, Institute for Glycomics -Novel insights into the mechanisms of how chikungunya virus causes human disease and discovering new treatment strategies -$314 664
Career Development Fellowships — RD Wright Fellowship
Dr Lara Herrero, Institute for Glycomics -The role of glycans in arboviral disease; from immunomodulation to glycotherapeutic treatment strategies- $419 180
NHMRC TRIP Fellowship
A/Professor Laurie Greilish,Centre for Health Practice Innovation, MHIQ –Implementing delirium prevention in hospitalised older patients using Normalisation Process Theory
Front line managers (FLMs). They’re the first tier of person in a workplace with supervisory responsibilities (and the ones who usually show up when you want to “…speak to the manager please”!).
A team of researchers from the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW), were recognised by Griffith Business School’s Pro Vice Chancellor for their collaborative research success over the past five years as they addressed front line managers in the workplace.
Dr Rebecca Loudoun
Comprising Drs Rebecca Loudoun(pictured left) and Sandra Lawrence, and Associate Professors Keith Townsend and Ashlea Troth, the team have worked together, says Keith:
“…in different permutations for a long period of time, and in recent years we’ve grown to see more and more overlap in our research fields and opportunities for collaboration. The area of common interest here is people management…Parts of the team have OB [organisational behaviour] expertise and others have HR [human resources] and IR [industrial relations] backgrounds. We see clear areas of overlap; we’re just looking at people management matters from different points [of view].”
Asked about the pros and cons of working with researchers from different disciplinary fields, Keith comments on the:
“Complementary skills [that] exist between the four of us, both in research methods and analysis styles, approaches to writing, and ideas. We have a nice combination of quantitative and qualitative [proficiencies], as well as big picture and minutia focus.”
“[But] a common phrase in our meetings is ‘What do you mean by that?!’. It’s important to tease out each others’ understanding of what we mean [and subsequently expect from the research]. We don’t allow these differences to be barriers though – it’s about identifying those areas for understanding and coming to a mutual agreement and understanding on definitions and key concepts.”
Associate Professor Keith Townsend
Rebecca, Sandra, Ashlea and Keith(pictured right) are drawing now from a recently completed FLM pilot study as the basis for an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant application due for submission in the new year.
The Griffith Business School Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Annual Research Excellence Award (REA) for a Team/ Group seeks to reward and encourage excellence in teams that contribute positively to Griffith’s research culture through coherent paths and directions in their research and have demonstrable impact and outcomes from their research endeavours. The team will now be considered for the Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards where winners from each of the REA categories in University’s four Academic Groups – Arts, Education and Law, Business, Health and Sciences – compete.
Australia would benefit from many more refugees says eminent Australian anthropologist Professor Bruce Kapferer who is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Griffith University Law School.
Professor Kapferer from the University of Bergen Norway said instead of stopping the influx of Syrian refugees Australia should be increasing its intake and welcoming new arrivals.
He said despite political rhetoric and scaremongering, some country areas of Australia disadvantaged by the rise of urbanisation had been revitalised by refugees.
“These include Sudanese immigrants around Tamworth or the many South Asian immigrants in country towns in NSW, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Far North Queensland has long seen the benefits of immigrants from the Middle East and East Asia.
“As well as professions and skilled workers, many refugees are skilled in dry land agriculture. Australia has huge spaces of land that could benefit from immigrants. This is an opportunity, not a threat and we should grab it.”
Professor Kapferer was recently awarded a Euro 5 million European Research Council grant for a project on Egalitarianism.
The five-year international project aims to study egalitarian structures and processes and their underlying values.
“It aims to open up Western thought to a more critical reflection on the history of the concept of egalitarianism.”
Professor Kapferer added that, “Australia is very important to the project as I’ll be looking at the roots of Australian egalitarianism and what it actually means today.”
“We think we live in an egalitarian society but you only have to look at the way we treat refugees to see that we’re not. “We try to make immigrants ‘fit in’ with our notion of a civilised community.
“The inclusiveness of Australian egalitarianism — the incorporation within the Australian community — implicitly and often quite explicitly insists on the submission of the cultural values of the immigrant to those held to be the values of the dominant host society.
“Sometimes egalitarian value can be complicit in the decline of democratic possibility.
“This is happening in Australia to some extent, particularly with the growing strength of corporatism that harnesses egalitarian value to its political and social interests.”
Considered one of the most prominent social anthropologists in the world, Professor Bruce Kapferer has worked at the University of Bergen since 1999.
He is a former Professor of Anthropology at University College London, where he maintains the position of Honorary Professor. His diverse research includes work on ethnic identity, nationalism, and violence across many cultural contexts.
Historian and political theorist Professor Bruce Buchan and Swedish colleague Dr Linda Andersson Burnett have been awarded more than $600,000 for a new research project that cuts to the core of humanity.
“The Borders of Humanity: Linnaean Natural Historians and the Colonial Legacies of the Enlightenment” will examine the relationship between ‘universal humanity’ and 18th Century colonialism,” Professor Buchan said.
“It will trace the definitional limits at the core of the concept of humanity.
“These limits were mapped by locating a series of borders — between peoples, tribes, men and women, nations and states, between humans and animals.”
The project will explore case studies of knowledge-formation and circulation in colonial engagements within Europe (Sápmi and Scottish Highlands) and with Creole and Indigenous peoples in Asia, America and Australia.
Funded by Sweden’s Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond, an independent foundation that aims to promote and support research in the humanities and social sciences, the highly competitive project was one of just four history grants awarded nationally.
Professor Buchan is Distinguished Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen until January 2016, where he is teaching a course on the global and intellectual history of Australia’s initial colonisation.
