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Think Tank 2016 welcomes this year’s delegates

The Academy received more than 300 applications from early- and mid-career researchers to attend the 2016 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank: An interdisciplinary approach to living in a risky world. Congratulations to the 60 candidates who have been selected to attend and we look forward to welcoming you in Canberra in July for two-and-a-half days of intense thinking and discussion about all types of risk.

EMCR Forum activities

The EMCR Forum is the national voice of Australia’s early- and mid-career researchers. The Executive Committee recently met face to face for their annual meeting and worked together to produce a strategic plan for the next five years.

Over the past few months the Committee met with the CEO of the NHMRC, Professor Anne Kelso, and the CEO of the ARC, Aidan Byrne, to discuss concerns about EMCR success rates in grant rounds. The EMCR Forum has also provided an EMCR perspective into the NHMRC’s Structural Review.

National Committees for Science

Biennial meeting of National Committees for Science Chairs The chairs of the National Committees met at the Shine Dome in April

Decadal plan for mathematical sciences launched

At the launch of the mathematics decadal plan were, from left, Professor Jagadish, Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Professor Ian Chubb, Mrs Karen Andrews, Dr Steve Thornton and Dr Clio Cresswell.

Australian researchers to work with counterparts in Japan

A total of 22 researchers from Australia, selected by the Academy, are heading to Japan on fellowships awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Recipients of eight short-term Invitation Fellowships and one long-term Invitation Fellowship will collaborate with Japanese researchers, attend seminars and give lectures. Thirteen researchers will travel to Japan for one to two years as part of the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers to conduct cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions.

Researcher on food security and fisheries is Australian nominee for ASPIRE Prize

From left: Professor Warren Bebbington, Vice Chancellor, University of Adelaide; Academy Fellow Professor Bob Vincent, University of Adelaide.; Matt Murray, Economic Counsellor, Embassy of the United States of America; Australian ASPIRE nominee Associate Professor Lee Baumgartner, Charles Sturt University; and the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Credit: T. Edwards, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Australian PhD students compete in Entrepreneurship Challenge

Participants, coaches and guests at the launch of the Australian–French Entrepreneurship Challenge in June. Photos: Tim Edwards, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Research seminars in Malaysia foster collaboration

Australian experts continue to highlight Australia’s research expertise through a series of seminars organised by the Academy and the Office of the Counsellor (Education and Science) at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. Supported by the Australian Department of Education and Training, the seminars encourage collaboration between leading Australian and Malaysian researchers.

Independent research fund launched in Indonesia

The Academy’s Foreign Secretary Professor Cheryl Praeger at the launch of the new research fund with Professor Sangkot Marzuki, President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences

A new fund in Indonesia established by President Joko Widodo will provide around US$50 million a year to fund about 200 research proposals.

Supporting stronger research collaborations between Australia and Papua New Guinea

The Academy’s Foreign Secretary Professor Cheryl Praeger with senior PNG science advisor Professor Teatulohi Matainaho

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