Welcome to the eighth issue of Future-Makers, which highlights our impactful research and celebrates some important milestones in ºÚÁÏÉç’s history. 

This year, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Research Week — ºÚÁÏÉç’s annual festival that showcases a wide range of research initiatives and their real-world impacts. The theme for 2024 was: The Next Decade of Discovery: Better Futures, Now. 

We were honoured to add 2024 Stella-Prize and two-time Miles Franklin Literary Award winning writer Alexis Wright as a member of our Distinguished Professor cohort. 

We also celebrated being ranked first overall in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact rankings for the fourth year in a row. These rankings identify and celebrate universities that excel across multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

In this issue, we’ve created an infographic that illustrates the broad range of topics covered by ºÚÁÏÉç researchers, which institutions we work with, and where we sit in the global research ecosystem. We also present stories about platypus protection efforts, pure mathematics and parenting help. And we delve into the concept of hyper-real religion, the preservation of Indigenous languages, and the Sydney Review of Books, Australia’s preeminent literary-criticism journal. 

This is just a taste of the stories in this issue. We hope you enjoy the rest of the magazine, and we encourage you to connect with our amazing researchers.  

Distinguished Professor George Williams AO
Vice-Chancellor and President  

Professor Deborah Sweeney
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research, Enterprise and Global)