With their origins in arts and culture, robots have been in assemblage with their human collaborators for hundreds of years. Following the emergence of generative AI, discussions of ‘humanness’ and the importance of ‘sentience’ become significant: can they be more than their programming? As engineering and human-computer interaction tells us, sentient robots are not here and still not overly close.
Mel Saward and co‑writer Brooke Blurton have had their young adult novel A Good Kind of Trouble shortlisted for the 2026 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, following its earlier shortlisting for the Readings Prize for Young Adult Readers.
The latest episode of Psych Matters podcast, titled ‘What story should psychiatry tell?’ was released on 27 March. It features an interview with Creative Writing PhD candidate Bianca Millroy, alongside psychiatrist, writer, and philosopher A/Prof Warren Ward, moderated by psychiatrist Dr Rory Hutchinson.
Dr Tom Doig worked with XR (Extended Reality) artists Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine to help them create an immersive and affecting new artwork about Australia’s unprecedented 2022 climate-change disasters: The World Came Flooding In.
The SCA hosted 43 Indigenous high school students on Thursday, 22 January, as part of InspireU, UQ's program connecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with university study and career pathways.
Dr Anne Kruger spoke to ABC TV News Breakfast presenter Bridget Brennan, and earlier the Australian Financial Review outlining AI verification tools being used to debunk the spate of conspiracy theories following Sunday's devastating Bondi attack. Dr Kruger advised against the public trying to get answers from generative AI and chat bots: "they are just not designed for this, and audiences should instead rely on journalists to corroborate and piece together credible information," she said.
The School of Communication And Arts is pleased to announce the publication of a new edited book, Beyond the Cities: The dynamics of migrant settlement in regional Australia, co-authored by Dr. Aparna Hebbani.
UQ’s School of Communication and Arts is pleased to announce the publication of Associate Professor Emma Cole’s new edited collection, Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality.
The PEATLI Project is a transdisciplinary learning initiative offering UQ students from a wide range of disciplines the opportunity to explore real-life, complex issues in Indonesia.
