Institute of Advanced Studies
The Institute of Advanced Studies brings researchers from all over the world to The University of Western Australia, with the aim of further enhancing UWA's global research profile.
The University of Western Australia is recognised internationally as an excellent, research-intensive university and a leading intellectual and creative resource to the community it serves.The University fosters an international focus for all its activities and standards as an integral part of its overriding commitment to excellence and high quality.
The Institute of Advanced Studies contributes in priority areas for the University, and reaches out to the broadest definition of community: a community of scholars, of students, and of an interested general community of inquiring and curious people.
Mission
To promote the recognition of the University of Western Australia in its mission of achieving international excellence by initiating strategies that:
- encourage cross-disciplinary research
- encourage distinguished scholars to visit the University and assist their residency
- encourage dissemination of the University's research results to the wider population through our activities
- stimulate public debate on contemporary issues
- develop and maintain institutional collaboration with the key partners of the University.
Activities and programs
- promoting and maximising the benefit from visiting scholars and fellowships for all members of our academic community
- coordinating across discipline areas to enhance the profile and opportunities of research initiatives
- organising and hosting interdisciplinary research seminars and workshops for researchers and postgraduate students
- hosting visits from distinguished professionals outside of the academy, including artists and public intellectuals, who can contribute to scholarly debate
- being a research hub to ensure the University gains benefit from international and national benchmark agreements
- being a creative resource to the academic, professional, business, graduate and cultural communities.
- Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellowships, through which distinguished scholars are invited to participate across disciplines in the University community as well as in their specialist field
- management of the Gledden Visiting Fellowship to encourage wider participation by distinguished scholars in cognate disciplines.