Jenny Max, a University of Queensland Masters of Communication (Communication for Social Change) student, has received a Prime Minister's Pacific-Australia (PMPA) Award in recognition of her leadership potential and academic achievements.

20 December 2011

Mr Kerry O’Brien has been recognised variously as Australia's pre-eminent television journalist; one of the country’s most respected journalists; one of the best and most formidable interviewers.

5 December 2011
Bobby Whitfield will become UQ's first masters graduate from Liberia at a ceremony on December 8

Next week Bobby Whitfield will become the first former Liberian refugee to have completed a master’s degree at The University of Queensland.

2 December 2011

Today, MontroseAccess, in partnership with The University of Queensland (UQ), announced a major new initiative which is set to benefit children with disabilities worldwide.

29 November 2011

The University of Queensland's School of Political Science and International Studies has been admitted into the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) as its newest and only full member in Australia.

24 November 2011

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences celebrated the outstanding achievements of its top teachers at its annual faculty Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony late last month.

16 November 2011

Associate Professor Katharine Gelber, from UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies, has been awarded the Sydney PEN Keneally Award for her contribution to the Protection of the Freedom of Expression.

15 November 2011
Ali Rae (right) meeting the Sheikh during the opening gala of Festival of Thinkers

Ali Rae, 23, from the School of Journalism and Communication (SJC), is one of three UQ coursework masters' students selected to fly to Abu Dhabi in November to take part in the prestigious United Arab Emirates Festival of Thinkers.

15 November 2011

UQ's performance in the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) funding arena has gone from strength to strength with the announcement of successful Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) yesterday (...

15 November 2011

An arresting black and white image taken in Nepal has been awarded an annual photo prize organised by UQ’s School of Political Science and International Studies.

14 November 2011

Professor Helen Edwards OAM will be presented with the 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony later this month, said Professor Bill von Hippel, Head of the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

10 November 2011
Professors Robert Lingard, Mark Western, Stephen Bell and Andrew McLennan

Four of Australia's leading social scientists, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to the social sciences awarded in Australia.

2 November 2011

As part of World Teachers' Day celebrations, two University of Queensland teaching graduates were recently nominated for a Queensland College of Teachers excellence in teaching award.

27 October 2011

The founder of deaf-mute participatory theatre initiative from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a Ugandan organisation preventing violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa have been announced as the 2011 Communication for Social Change...

27 September 2011
Professor Jason Mattingley and Professor Bernie Degnan

The University of Queensland has been awarded three prestigious Australian Research Council Australia Laureate Fellowships announced today by Federal Science Minister Kim Carr.

10 August 2011

Nominations for The University of Queensland’s 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumnus Award are now open.

21 July 2011
Bruce Redman (centre) films Family First candidate John Lewis during the 2004 Federal Election campaign

Life is often stranger than fiction, just ask Dr Bruce Redman.

20 July 2011
Journalism student Melody Pedler receives her award from John B Fairfax

Melody Pedler has become the second UQ student in three years to win the prestigious Fairfax Award for Rural Journalism.

27 May 2011

Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.

17 May 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in psychology (world rank 26), biological sciences (world rank 38), and medicine (ranked 33rd) in prestigious new international rankings released today.

4 May 2011