Researchers and other staff in the Centre have produced a very wide variety of important and interesting work, whether it is academic research, or support of that research by general staff. Occasionally this work is acknowledged externally for its excellence, in the form of awards, presentations, and honours.
This page summarises the various achievements of the Centre's staff since its inception in 2000.
Centre Achievements
October 2009: Dr Mark Andrejevic and Dr Melissa Bellanta are successful in the 2009 ARC Funding round.
July 2009: Dr Melissa Bellanta wins the 2008 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies.
September 2008: Professor Graeme Turner is appointed to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).
June 2008: The Centre wins award for Most Improved Green Office Area.
October 2007: Dr Melissa Gregg is awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project "Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity".
September 2007: Dr Melissa Gregg is awarded a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.
June 2007: The Centre wins award for Best New Green Office.
May 2006: Professor Graeme Turner is awarded with a Federation Fellowship.
December 2005: Dr Gerard Goggin and Assoc Prof Christopher Newell, receive the Human Rights Arts Non-Fiction Award, for their book Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid, UNSW Press, 2004.
November 2004: Professor Graeme Turner is elected as President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, for a three-year term.
October 2004: Dr Gerard Goggin is awarded an Australian Research Fellowship for his project "Mobile Culture: A Biography of the Mobile Phone".
September 2004: Dr Gerard Goggin receives University of Queensland Research Excellence Award.
August 2004: The ARC Cultural Research Network is approved as one of 24 Research Networks, with Professor Graeme Turner as convenor.
October 2003: Dr Mark McLelland is awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Award for his project "Local Culture/Global Space: Japanese Minority Sexualities and the Internet".