UQ's Forgan Smith Building lit up in rainbow colours.

The University of Queensland has increased the number and types of bursaries available for LGBTQIA+ students and expanded the eligibility criteria, to include students who’ve accepted a full-time place but are yet to enrol.

25 February 2022
UQ Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) Professor Doune Macdonald; Dr Nicole Warrington;  Dr Rebecca Olive; Executive Dean (Humanities and Social Sciences) Professor Heather Zwicker

LGBTIQA+ Allies make an important contribution to the university and wider community by creating a safe, welcoming and inclusive space for sex, gender, and sexuality diverse people.

20 January 2021
Piles of sequins in the colours of the rainbow flag. Image: Pexels/Sharon McCutcheon

The commitment to a culture of diversity, inclusion, respect and acceptance at The University of Queensland has a new champion.

15 May 2020

The University of Queensland welcomes a new Associate Dean (Indigenous Engagement) next month – a first for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

4 December 2019

A University of Queensland researcher has been bestowed with the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia.

19 November 2019
Professor Simon Haines,  CEO Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Professor Heather Zwicker, Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Queensland Professor Peter Hoj, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Queensland

The University of Queensland expects to offer an extended major in Western Civilisation with effect from 2020 after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation in Sydney yesterday.

8 August 2019
Reconciliation Action Coordinator Kerry Kilner

The director of the Australian literature and storytelling history database AustLit has been appointed as the first Reconciliation Action Coordinator for The University of Queensland’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

21 March 2019
Professor Heather Zwicker.

A cultural studies researcher from a top-ranked Canadian university has joined The University of Queensland this week as the new Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Executive Dean.

2 October 2018