The ARC Federation Fellowship scheme has produced positive outcomes for researchers from the humanities, arts and social sciences, but its value could be enhanced.

The way researchers remain largely in disciplinary silos is a discouraging factor to anyone needing to work with colleagues in other disciplines, writes Stuart Cunningham.

This CHASS report details the benefits to Australia of encouraging big collaborative research projects, to provide solutions to the big problems the country faces. These 'big issues' include caring for an ageing population, maintaining water supply, cyber crime, and aboriginal health and welfare. This CHASS report details the benefits to Australia of encouraging big collaborative...

Too many of Australia's policy settings overlook the potential of the humanities, arts and social sciences to contribute to the national economy and well-being writes Stuart Cunningham.

For decades, researchers in HASS have endured a funding system that assesses their work through a narrow prism of quantity: How many papers? How much grant money? How many research students? This project set out to find a fairer way to evaluate research, by focusing on the quality and impact of the diverse outputs of...