Partnership and collaboration

Digitalisation in India (Image: David Dvoracek / Unsplash)

Digital Transactions in India: Platforms, Markets, Users

Symposium

Critical debates are currently underway on the financial, social and economic regulation that will determine the form of India’s digital environment in coming decades. This two day webinar event will key into these debates by bring leading figures in India’s Fintech sector into conversation with Australian scholars focusing their research on digital transactions in India and the wider international significance of India’s digital agenda.

Participants in the Circular Economy Workshop stand around a table in discussion

A circular economy for Queensland: UQ and ecoBiz help businesses lead the way.

Published on: 19 February 2021

A new pilot study is helping Queensland’s small to medium enterprises (SMEs) become more sustainable by designing out waste and using resources more efficiently.

Our Research Approach

Scientists explore potential to manipulate genes to conserve ecosystems

Published on: 31 January 2020

Scientists are manipulating genes that could solve environmental sustainability and conservation problems in Australia. But governance challenges may be significant and need to be thought through before the science becomes conservation policy.

The Centre for Policy Futures partners with the Winston Churchill Trust to launch a new Policy Impact Program

Published on: 22 November 2019

The program combines the two organisations' strengths to increase the impact of outstanding Churchill Fellows and their findings to guide best practice and policy reform for Australia.

CSIRO - UQ Responsible Innovation Program

Published on: 27 August 2019

Be part of an elite PhD cohort working with CSIRO and UQ

Moving policy forward for nanotechnology

Published on: 1 July 2019

The successful use of nanotechnology in agriculture will only be possible with a concerted effort to overcome the challenges posed by policies and regulations that are not yet fit for purpose.

Policy Futures Debut Issue: Regulating the New Economy

Published on: 1 July 2019

Our first issue of Policy Futures is now available. In this issue we cover emerging technologies and innovations including artificial technology, synthetic biology, nanotechnology and circular economy.

Scientists want to build trust in science and technology. The alternative is too risky to contemplate

Published on: 14 May 2019

New research shows that despite differences in their funding commitments, major political parties in Australia – the Coalition, Labor and the Greens – see science and technology as important aspects of our economy and future prosperity.

WATCH: 'From Digital Data to Decisions' Workshop Keynote Address

Published on: 13 May 2019

Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY