1. Humanities and Arts International Research Collaboration

The objective of the 'Humanities and Arts International Research Collaboration Survey' was to map the contours of international research collaboration in the humanities and arts. The survey has now closed. 

The survey was aimed at all researchers in humanities and arts disciplines, broadly defined, including independent scholars and researchers working in industry and cultural institutions, as well as practice-based research in the creative arts. The HAT project has been able to track recent past, current and prospective international collaboration, shifts in research agenda, structural impediments to research collaboration, preferred models, and priority areas of engagement. 

The response to the survey was insightful, candid and generous, and also invaluable in helping to shape the new International Science Linkages Humanities and Creative Arts programme to the benefit of all Australian scholars in these fields.

2. State of the Humanities

The 'HAT Academic Worforce Survey' sought to find out more about the academic workforce, specifically within  humanities disciplines: capturing the range and load of research and teaching, and identifying present challenges. The survey has now closed. 

We complemented this quantitative survey exercise with discursive data gathering, via a range of focus groups, consultations, workshops and interviews. Throughout 2009 and into 2010 the HAT project talked to academics across career, disciplinary and institutional spectra about what they most liked about working in the humanities, the relationship between their teaching and research, the level of optimism they have about their discipline, and what an academic career looks like for the next generation of humanities scholars.

We are very appreciative of the generosity of humanities scholars across Australia, whose contributions and insights to the HAT project will help us present a better case for support and advancement of the humanities.