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Professor Jenna Ng has been appointed an Honorary Professor in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York, UK.

A School of Communication and Arts alumna has received silver for Emerging Leader of the Year – Agency at the Communication and Public Relations Australia Golden Target Awards.

Associate Professor Emma Cole has been awarded the T.B.L. Webster Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London for the 2026-27 UK academic year.   

Associate Professor Helen Marshall has been awarded the 2026 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her novel The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death.

School of Communication and Arts student Tina Agic has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Eloquence Art Prize, a national public speaking competition that brings together outstanding university students from across Australia.

Dr Andrea Bubenik will present at Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas, a symposium hosted by the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney.

Andrea Bubenik co-curated The Ghosts of Lani Mulgrave Blair with Henrietta Marrie AM at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns. The exhibition explores the life and afterlife of Lani Mulgrave Blair (1883–1900), a Yidinji boy taken from Country during frontier violence and raised in colonial Melbourne

AustLit is thrilled to host two Creative Writing Fellowships in 2026.

The School of Communication and Arts is celebrating the success of two academics awarded competitive 2026 University of Queensland Teaching Innovation Grants (TIGs), recognising innovative approaches to enhancing student learning and responding to emerging challenges in higher education.

The School of Communication and Arts congratulates Teaching Associate Navin Sam Regi, who has been awarded a 2026 Walkley Grant for Freelance Journalism for his project The Cost of Resilience.

Professor Porscha Fermanis will deliver the 2026 S.W. Brooks Public Lecture, examining how interracial romance has shaped representations of Indigenous women in Australian fiction.

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.

To celebrate World Press Freedom Day, two inspiring young storytellers spoke to Journalism students about how they have built independent careers.

Water: Stories from a Drier Future.

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.

Where the Wild Things Are held a book launch for Dr Emily Larkin's latest novel, Dugongs of the Sky (Wombat Books), on 24 April 2026.