New Arts and Social Sciences flagship themes to fix the future
Speaking ahead of a showcase event at the Faculty鈥檚 new $82m Social Sciences Building this evening, Professor Jagose said the research themes 鈥� organised under the umbrella rubric聽 鈥� bring together talented researchers across diverse disciplines to address complex issues that affect the everyday lives of many people in Australia and across the world.
鈥淲e have a reputation for being Australia鈥檚 oldest and most comprehensive arts and social sciences faculty, but we are also very much geared for the 21st century,鈥� Professor Jagose said.
鈥淭hese research themes will allow us to harness the breadth and depth of our interdisciplinary strengths across the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) and address some of the most important problems facing society today.鈥�
Six research themes were聽selected following a two-tiered competitive process that attracted high-quality applications from across the Faculty鈥檚 more than 40 disciplines.
鈥淔utureFix holds open a collective space for a suite of projects already strongly underway in this, its first iteration:
- a fresh take on housing affordability by focusing on聽聽and the new forms of inequality it insidiously engenders;
- a reconsideration of聽聽from the rich seam where HASS meets the life sciences;
- a reorientation of research protocols to ensure authentic partnerships and聽;
- a policy-focused research project that centres on聽聽like Australia鈥檚 that are not typically considered in much economic policy analysis;
- 补听聽via a multispecies lens;
- and a HASS take on the opportunities and challenges of聽 鈥� including automation, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, big data, next-generation internet, and social and mobile media networks 鈥� in relation to ethics and social inclusion.
鈥淭his is some of the work we will be best known for by 2021 鈥� relevant, timely and solution-focused,鈥� Professor Jagose said.