Eight academics from The University of Queensland are among 94 new members appointed to the Australian Research Council (ARC) 2023 College of Experts panel.
6 February 2023The Australian Academy of Humanities have elected three new Fellows, one Honorary Fellow and two Council Members from The University of Queensland.
25 November 2022
Dylan Berger is set to explore how language is a living form of Indigenous Knowledge, as the inaugural recipient of The University of Queensland’s Indigenous Languages Scholarship.
1 August 2022
UQ’s Professor Felicity Meakins describes her childhood as “free range”, having grown up in a semi-rural area near Toowoomba.
7 March 2022
A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could be lost by the end of this century.
17 December 2021
Fifty-one years after the historic Wave Hill Walk-Off sparked the national land rights movement, an exhibition exploring the event is on show at the UQ Art Museum.
8 August 2017The Australian Research Council has awarded 14 new Future Fellowships to University of Queensland researchers.
5 June 2017
University of Queensland linguists will join Aboriginal language experts in Katherine in the Northern Territory next week to workshop Australia’s largest newly adopted language – Kriol.
6 June 2016
As many Indigenous languages lose their speakers, a researcher from The University of Queensland has developed a unique audio book to keep the words alive for generations to come.
19 June 2015
By now we know that traditional Indigenous languages are losing speakers rapidly and tragically. Of the 250 languages once spoken in Australia, only 40 remain and just 18 of these are still learnt by children. But if children in remote Indigenous...
29 October 2014
A bilingual print dictionary Gurindji to English Dictionary will be launched at Freedom Day celebrations at Kalkaringi, Northern Territory, on 23 August.
15 August 2013Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a UQ-hosted conference recently.
26 April 2012
As the number of Aboriginal languages dwindles, UQ researchers are intensifying their studies to protect and document those that remain.
2 September 2011University of Queensland postgraduates and staff are behind a new Internet journal to be launched at The Hub Internet Cafe, 125 Margaret St, Brisbane on Thursday July 23 at 5.30 pm.
22 July 1998
