Research
We leverage the high reputation of HASS-related research at the University to capitalise on external funding opportunities. Specifically, we
- Create/promote incubation opportunities to enable competitive funding applications
- Build capacity and transparency around the funding journey
- Deliver a program to help researchers diversify funding streams
- Scaffold leadership opportunities for academics and professional staff into all our activities
We deepen relationships and foster innovation and excellence by modelling a non-hierarchical collaborative research ecology. Specifically, we
- Encourage meaningful engagement in an open and playful environment
- Create a network of support and shared language around research engagement
- Develop outward-reaching engagement programs
- Activate our competitive fellowship schemes for broader collaboration
We celebrate and share research findings, insights, and methodologies with diverse audiences and communities of practice. Specifically, we
- Spotlight and amplify research excellence
- Connect researchers with University resources around media, communications, engagement, social enterprise, and commercialisation
- Create opportunities for knowledge transfer between academics and early career researchers
- Are committed to diversity in all dimensions of research and research engagement.
2025 Fellowship Collaborations
Our Gilbert Fellows are:
- Associate Professor Venu Arora (O.P. Jindal Global University) will work with Dr Diana Chester (MECO) and Lea Redfern (MECO) on innovative audio pedagogies for social justice and digital rights.
- Professor Helene Martinsson-Wallin (University of Uppsala) will work with Associate Professor James Flexner (Archaeology) and staff at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
- Dr Laura Strolin (Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology) will collaborate with Dr Melissa Kennedy (Archaeology) on a comparative study of mustatil faunal assemblages and settlements.
- Professor Gerd Van Riel (University of Leuven) will collaborate with Professor Julia Kindt (CLAH), Dr Emily Hulme (Philosophy) and Dr James Collin (CLAH) on ancient Greek views on personal religion.
Our Hunt-Simes Fellows are:
- Associate Professor Adam Greteman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will be involved in the delivery of the Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS) 2025.
- Professor Pamela Lannutti (Widener University) will also be involved in the delivery of HISS 2025.
- Professor Amanda Denes (University of Connecticut) will be working with Dr Mandy Henningham (Sociology) on a project exploring bi+ (bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, etc) people’s experiences from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
- Dr Xavier Ho (Monash University) will be involved in the delivery of HISS 2025.
- Dr Kush Patel (Manipal Academy of Higher Education) will contribute to the delivery of HISS 2025 and work with Dr Susan Potter (Film Studies) on queer-feminist visual methodologies and pedagogies as they engage queer archives in the region.
- Dr Joseph Plaster (Johns Hopkins University) will work with the University Librarian Philip Kent and Dr Shiva Chandra (SCHS) on a Sydney derivative of his Peabody Ballroom Experience.
- Dr Sam Stiegler (University of Melbourne) will be involved in the delivery of HISS 2025.
- Dr Jessica Wright (MacEwan University) will be involved in the delivery of HISS 2025 and will also collaborate with Dr Victoria Rawlings (Education) on the development of public-facing educational resources.
Our James Fellows are:
- Professor Luna Dolezal (University of Exeter) will collaborate with Professor Kane Race (GCS), Dr Shiva Chandra (SCHS) and Dr Supriya Subramani (Public Health) on shame, medicine, and moral emotions in healthcare environments.
- Dr Jennifer M Lavoie (University of Edinburgh) will collaborate with Associate Professor Luara Ferracioli (Philosophy) on the idea of moral parenthood.
Humanities as Cultural Heritage - ICOMOS
Humanities and Heritage: Some Thoughts Post-ICOMOS
From 4-8 September 2023, the 21st General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)will be held in Sydney, Australia. In collaboration with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) is sending three humanities experts in cultural heritage to attend the General Assembly (GA2023) as part of its official delegation of ambassadors.
Funded by CHCI, and supported by SSSHARC, the ICOMOS ambassadors will strengthen existing networks and promote the importance of the role of universities and humanities centres in preserving and shaping ideas around cultural heritage, including non-tangible cultural heritage.
Dr Louise Cooke, senior lecturer in Conservation from the University of York, is a conservation expert interested in sustainability, historic buildings, archaeological sites and landscapes.
Dr Tristen Jones, lecturer in the Master of Museum and Heritage Studies program at the University of Sydney, is a cultural heritage specialist who specialises in recording and managing Australian Indigenous cultural landscapes, with a focus on rock art, intangible cultural heritage and archaeological sites.
Dr Natali Pearson is an early career researcher at the University of Sydney, where she researches and teaches at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC).
On Friday 13 October, SSSHARC hosted a panel discussion with three heritage studies experts about their experience of attending the 21st General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which was held in Sydney in September.