Recording rock art at Liwingkinya on Vanderlin Island in Yanyuwa Country with Graham Friday, John Bradley, and Warren Timothy. Credit: Amanda Kearney, June 2019.

The living image

9 November 2020

A decades-long research engagement with the Yanyuwa people from the south-western Gulf of Carpentaria is reframing the meaning of ‘rock art’, through a Discovery Project led by ARC Future Fellow, Associate Professor Liam Brady, with colleagues Professor Amanda Kearney and Associate Professor John Bradley.

Supporting the Australian research sector

30 September 2020

The ARC is committed to supporting the Australian research sector and is focused on continuing to provide flexible, effective and practical measures to ensure researchers can continue to participate in ARC schemes. 2020 has presented considerable challenges and it is important to reiterate the mechanisms we have in place to support researchers preparing applications.

Professor Rob Hyndman

What’s the pandemic forecast?

30 September 2020

What’s going to happen next with the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia? What about a few weeks from now? What about in different states and territories? 

These are the questions a team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) is helping to answer. 

Yusuke Yamauchi

Powering up an international collaboration with Japan

23 September 2020

Many ARC researchers are experts at building industry support to strengthen an existing research program, which can also provide a pathway to industry employment for new graduates. Professor Yusuke Yamauchi is one of a small number of ARC supported researchers who are making these links directly with industry partners in Japan, and he has a vision of a bright future in manufacturing collaboration between Australian and Japanese industry.

Professor Sharon Parker

The changing workforce under COVID-19

10 September 2020

Professor Sharon Parker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, whose research focus is the design of jobs and work, and the vital role that this design has in delivering a thriving economy with a healthy, flourishing workforce. Awarded $2.9m through the ARC’s 2016 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship, Professor Parker has used this research funding to establish the Centre for Transformative Work Design, conducting high quality, independent and innovative research to understand the role of work design in generating healthy and productive work.

Professor Maria Forsyth. Credit: Donna Squire/Deakin University.

Charging a new future in battery technology

23 June 2020

The rechargeable Lithium-ion (LI) battery has become a ubiquitous technology that underpins our lives, powering our mobile devices and electric cars, as well as providing efficient storage for renewably generated electricity. But there is still a great research effort underway to increase their efficiency and reliability, as the technologies of the future will have even greater thirst for the portable energy power of batteries.

Professor Maria Forsyth, a former ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient at Deakin University is Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Future Energy Storage Technologies, and is determined that the next breakthrough battery technology will have a manufacturing home here in Australia.

ANZSRC Review and revised Field of Research (FoR) code classification

11 June 2020

Over the past year, the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and Stats NZ have undertaken a joint review of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2008. 

The ARC is pleased to advise that the revised ANZSRC is on track to be published at the end of June on the ABS and Stats NZ websites. 

Nominations for 2021 ARC College of Experts now open

11 June 2020

Each year, the ARC calls for nominations from suitably qualified and experienced individuals across all disciplines to join the esteemed ARC College of Experts. College member appointments are highly competitive, with members drawn from higher education, industry and public sector research organisations.

ARC College of Experts members play a key role in the ARC’s peer review processes to ensure that government funding is spent on the highest quality research that will grow knowledge and innovation for the benefit of the Australian community.

Centre for Forest Value Deputy Director Associate Professor Julianne O’Reilly-Wapstra (right) with the two of the Centre for Forest Value's PhD Candidates Michelle Balasso and Sean Krisanski.

Training the next generation of researchers for the forestry industry

4 June 2020

The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Forest Value has become a launching pad for high-calibre, industry-ready University of Tasmania research higher degree graduates and postdoctoral fellows with broad perspectives of the forest industry.

Established in 2015, with $3.6 million funding from the ARC, and additional funding from industry partners and the University of Tasmania, the Centre is celebrating the final stages of its first intake of students, as they embark on the next step in their careers and continue to contribute to the development of the forest industry both in Australia and internationally.

Caption: Andrew Johnston and Buyung Kosasih, assessing the performance of the Mark I slotted air jet laboratory equipment. Credit: Paul Jones.

Research collaboration improves consistency of thin coatings for BlueScope products

27 May 2020

Researchers at the ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Manufacturing, based at the University of Wollongong (UOW), are engaging with BlueScope Steel and other partners from Australia’s steel industry to solve complex problems in the manufacturing process for steel.

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