Applications are invited for the 2025 Round 8 of the Society’s research Fund. Applications close on 28 February 2025. Click on the following link for further details: https://scienceqld.org/get-involved/grant-opportunities/
Dr Geoff Monteith, an international giant in entomology and member of the Society for 60 years, has succumbed to illness. The ABC recently ran an article showcasing the taxonomic work of Dr Monteit. He has been included in the list […]
The President has announced that Society member John Brisbin had won the David Marlow Prize for an essay entitled Planning for purpose: How Queenslanders might flourish in the challenging times ahead. The author picks up a theme that in an […]
The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland and The Royal Society of Queensland held a public forum in September on the management of fire in the Australian landscape with an excellent panel of speakers. Click here for flyer.
The paper submitted by Dr Wendy Laupu and awarded the Geraldine Hall Memorial Prize has been edited and is now available as the first article in Volume 133 of the Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland. Dr Laupu delivered […]
The first paper in its series of Occasional Papers has now been published online in preprint form. As explained on the landing page for Occasional Papers, establishment of this line of documents was approved by the Council of the Society […]
The first article in our series on the preconditions of well-being has been published in The Mandarin online newsletter, on 28 February 2024. Read the article here. Consult our community health page for more details, including the context. By mid-July […]
The Society is delighted to announce that Dr Wendy Laupu has been awarded the Geraldine Hall Memorial Prize for writing, with an essay on the theme “Updated Mental Health Literacy to Improve Public Health in Remote Australian Communities”. More details […]
Emeritus Professor Peter Leggat was a member in good standing Society and prime organiser of 2016 workshop at the Cairns Institute on Community Health that initiated its Preconditions of Well-being project. We re-publish this obituary Vale Emeritus Professor Peter Leggat […]
As a teaser for this workshop, browse through this powerpoint: An Analysis of the Land-New System in Queensland, Multiple Problems and the Benefits of Constructive Reform (pdf version) by Society member David Marlow, sponsor of the workshop. (ppt version)
