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Professor Jenna Ng, Head of the School of Communication and Arts, led a UQ delegation to Indonesia last weekend to celebrate a significant milestone: the 15th anniversary of the partnership between UQ and Universitas Indonesia's Department of Communication.

The School of Communication and Arts was proudly represented at the prestigious 2025 Queensland Clarion Awards on Saturday, 18 October.

Come celebrate all the writers and artists whose reflective, transformative, beautiful work is being featured in the latest issue of Jacaranda Memento Mori.

At the recent HASS What's Working Assessment Workshop, SCA’s Dr Bonnie Evans and Dr Victoria Bladen were among a group of speakers sharing their experiences of assessment transformation in courses this semester.

​​​​​​​Creative Flourishing is a new podcast hosted by UQ’s Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing. 


The first episode 'Creation and Curation: Archie Moore’s kith and kin' launched this week, featuring SCA Staff members Andrea Bubenik and Emma Cole and with research support from SCA HDR student Matt Bapty. 

Maggie Nolan has been appointed to the judging panel of the Miles Franklin Literary Award from 2026.

Emma Cole interviews Wesley Enoch to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Black Medea

When you hear the word ‘storytelling’, what do you think of?
Maybe you think of being read stories as a child, curled up in bed. Or maybe you think of news articles reporting on current events. Or maybe you think of making an Instagram Story, giving your connections a brief glimpse into your life, but only for 24 hours.

Martine is launching the novel in Sydney on the release day, and she will be holding the Brisbane launch at Avid Reader on 20 October with Dr. Amanda Niehaus.

Oluwapelumi (Pelumi) Oginni, a PhD candidate at the School of Communication and Arts, has been selected to participate in the UQ San Francisco Startup AdVenture Programme, one of Australia’s most competitive and impactful global mobility initiatives.

Dr. Kathleen Jennings’ haunted subtropical novel Honeyeater, set in something not quite but very like Brisbane, will be published in Australia by Picador on 16 September (released by Tor in the USA on 2 September).

Tania Chatterjee, a joint PhD candidate with The University of Queensland and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, was recently invited to join Kelly Higgins-Devine on ABC Radio Brisbane.

Tom Doig was interviewed on Al-Jazeera’s The Stream, a current affairs discussion programme. The topic: bunkers, and their relationship to the climate crisis.

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. 

Over the mid-year break, eight SCA students participated in an international Shakespeare summer school in Rouen, France, co-organised by Dr Victoria Bladen and scholars from the Université de Rouen

Jacaranda Journal has officially opened submissions for its upcoming edition, inviting writers and artists to submit original work in response to the new theme: Memento Mori. The deadline for all submissions is August 29. The launch event will be in November.