Australian Research Council

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Kaya Barry is a senior lecturer at Griffith University who was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship to explore the contributions of seasonal migrants in Queensland's agricultural industry.

Her research explored changes from the COVID-19 pandemic and how the agricultural industry filled the roles during that time.

She told me the visa changes will only make farm work more unattractive to working holidaymakers.

She gave it away.

The Australian Research Council now awards the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship, specifically for women scientists in recognition of her contribution to advancing women in Australian science.

Her name is on a fellowship.

Her research is cited in scientific literature.

What we've got to a point though, is that everyone around the world is realising that quantum is a big deal and they want to see who can get there first and make sure that we're using it because it's got so much opportunity.

And there's been extraordinary investment Good news is, how often does Australia actually be in the top pops for investing in things? And I've just shown, this is something from earlier this year, and I've circled that Australia's put big investments into quantum, both from the Australian Research Council that's funded research for the last 20, 30 years, and now we're reaping the benefit of it, to governments investing in this as well.

But why now? Why is it we didn't have this earlier? And the reason is that around the 2000s, we were able to get in and play with things at the really small level, the nano level.

You might remember with nanotechnology as being something which King Charles talked about as going to create grey goo.

grant to develop 6G wireless networks powered by antennas that can reposition in real time for faster and more efficient wireless services.

Dan, it is the third and most expensive Australian Research Council grant given to projects involving this academic.

Does it pass the pop test?

No, it doesn't pass the pub test.

Embedding Aboriginal knowledge in space policy.

The University of Newcastle has received a $528,000 grant from the Australian Research Council in order to, and I quote, provide a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge to inform outer space policies in ways that ensure space activity is sustainable and respects longstanding and significant cultural connections to the sky and space.

Just imagine mission control.

Houston, we have a problem.

Yeah, we possibly could have come up with something snappier.

It's the name of the grant that we got from the Australian Research Council to fund part of the project.

So we're kind of speaking to our funders and to the community.

Yeah.

So the book came together.

Basically, about four or five years ago, I had an Australian Research Council grant.

It was the first ever project that they'd funded that was looking at Australian queer media, queer and trans representations on screen on film and television.

One of the outcomes of it was to start to build a scholarly network.

coming out stories?

There is a generational shift that I see just across a lot of the project work where we've talked to different audience age groups.

And one part of the earlier Australian Research Council project, we held some focus groups that were age-based.

I think we talked to people who were born in the 70s through to the early 80s, and then also talked separately to people who were born in the 90s and 2000s.