Awards and achievements

Professor Felicity Meakins has been awarded $40,000 from the auDA Foundation to support Gurindji people to renew their language and culture across generations through digital storytelling.

Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student from The University of Queensland Rebecca Hausler will be taking her doctoral research to Japan after being awarded the Showa Women’s University Mariko Bando Fellowship.

Congratulations to Dr Anna Mikhaylova and Associate Professor Noriko Iwashita as they both received this year's HASS Teaching Excellence Awards and to Dr Teresa Hsieh who won the Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence in HASS.

School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) Industry Fellow Des Crump is the 2022 recipient of the State Library Honours Medal

University of Queensland linguists have been recognised for their work in preserving Aboriginal language and culture.

The University of Queensland (UQ) has announced its inaugural recipient of their Indigenous Languages Scholarship. Congratulations to Dylan Berger – a proud Gumbaynggirr, Dhanggati, Yuin, and Birpai man who has spent the majority of his life in southern Gumbaynggirr Country.

Japanese civilian Miyakatsu Koike’s wartime diary during his internment in Loveday Camp South Australia has been translated in English for the first time by UQ honorary research fellow Hiroko Cockerill.