Mission
Statement
The Institute of Advanced Study for Humanity (IASH) provides a focus for local, national and international enquiry that will promote interdisciplinary research in the arts, social sciences, humanities and professional education. It will foster an inclusive research environment built around collaboration and provide a context for engagement with difficult, challenging and pertinent social, cultural and intellectual issues. The Institute will attract funding, sponsorship and participation from scholars working in the humanities and social sciences and from people from professional and public life. It will forge relationships and capacity building networks all over the world and support researchers at all stages of their careers.
The Institute for Advanced Study seeks to ignite creative, innovative, and profound research and discovery in the humanities and social sciences. It is a site, concept, and a community dedicated to public and intellectual exchanges across the fields of human endeavour. The Institute is distinctive in organising the core of its work around a rolling programme of key strategic aims and thematic priorities. Core themes have interdisciplinary appeal; lie at the cutting edge of research, and require urgent attention from more than one perspective. Typically, themes run across one year; sometimes they form a platform for a much longer programme of work; in other circumstances they provide a rapid response to urgent needs over a shorter period. In leveraging our distinctive brand of research it aims to be creative and innovative in establishing its role as a premier resource for change makers in the social, cultural and professional sectors. By bringing together research excellence, both theoretical and practical, the Institute will help catalyse ventures that can bring about real and enduring change for communities and peoples.
The Institute for Advanced Study aims to act as a national and international centre for excellence in the arts, humanities, social sciences and professional education and as a catalyst for new research agendas and advanced scholarship. It will attract leading international scholars to Australia to interact with undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic staff and engage with the community. Through research sponsorship, conferences, colloquia, seminars, scholarly publications, workshops, teaching programmes, exchanges and collaboration the Institute will foster excellence and innovation for advanced research agendas. Professor Stephen Webb will serve as Director of IASH and be supported by a number of core research Faculty. |
Australia