Australia

A new report authored by UQ colleagues including Caitlin Curtis and produced with KPMG reveals how much trust Australians have in AI systems and how we think AI should be deployed and managed. Read the accompanying piece in The Conversation.

To find out, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 2,500 Australians in June and July 2020. Our report, produced with KPMG and led by Nicole Gillespie, shows Australians on the whole don’t know a lot about how AI is used, have little trust in AI systems, and believe it should be carefully regulated.

Renowned journalist and author, Marian Wilkinson, hosts a conversation with UQ experts Dr Selina Ward and the Centre's Dr Pedro Fidelman to discuss the economic, political and scientific questions that will determine the future of the Reef and those on land who depend on it.

The first edition of the UQ Southeast Asia Forum series provides an insight into the Southeast Asian governments’ handling of the pandemic. Our panel of discussants from Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the University of Sydney, and the UQ Centre for Policy Futures, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Southeast Asia and consider what changes the pandemic may bring to the politics, economics, and foreign relations of the region.

With a flattened student-teacher hierarchy and a focus on community relationships, the Centre's Senior Researcher Dr Marnee Shay shows why flexi schools are a growing phenomenon catching more and more Indigenous students who have fallen out of mainstream schooling.

Both countries have more and more in common, a fact which should challenge old tropes about difference. Our Centre for Policy Futures Research Fellow Greta Nabbs-Keller reports in the Lowy Institute's 'The Interpreter'.

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 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.