Research Themes

Research Themes

Responsible Innovation in Synthetic Biology

Responsible bio-innovation /

Responsible Innovation in Synthetic Biology In This Project We Investigate Public Views Around Synthetic Biology and its Applications to Society Background Synthetic biology uses engineering and experimental scientific approaches to create novel biological systems. As a transformative technology, its development includes applications across areas of environmental management, health, agriculture and sustainable manufacturing. Through the Research

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Responsible Innovation in Precision Health

Responsible bio-innovation /

Responsible Innovation in Precision Health In This Project We Look into Opportunities and Challenges for Promoting Equity and Diversity in Australian Research Background Precision health is a rapidly growing field that aims to integrate biological, behavioural, and environmental information in providing personalised interventions for health maintenance or restoration. Multiple precision health initiatives are currently being

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Responsible Innovating in and for the Global South

Indigenous and local innovation /

Responsible Innovating in and for the Global South if we cannot ethically innovate for or with populations in the Global South, how can we best develop solutions to these problems in a responsible and relevant way? António Guterres UN Secretary-General Background Increasingly, UN agencies and other NGOs are leveraging emerging technologies – like AI and

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Enabling indigenous innovations to solve the Australian bushfire crisis

Indigenous and local innovation /

Enabling Indigenous Innovations to Solve the Australian Bushfire Crisis For thousands of years, the Aboriginal people of Australia systematically managed land and fire. Our question is how can we combine traditional practices with modern technological tools to make Australian land resilient. (Joseph Lycett – National Library of Australia) We should adapt to the Aboriginal way of managing

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Making it easy and meaningful for people to volunteer for nature

Indigenous and local innovation /

Making It Easy and Meaningful for People to Volunteer for Nature In this project we explore opportunities and concerns of designing a nation-wide and/or statewide environmental volunteer platforms ” Traditional data sources are not sufficient for measuring the SDGs. New and non-traditional sources of data are required. ” Steffen Fritz and colleagues Background Volunteers are

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Enabling Traditional Owners to play a lead role in water policymaking

Indigenous and local innovation /

Enabling Traditional Owners to play a lead role in water policymaking In this project we explore how new technologies can enable Traditional Owners to take a lead in the discussion around the future of water policymaking in Fitzroy River basin. ” Management of Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) catchment is at a crossroads, with diverse and conflicting

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Reinforcing responsibility into language models: The case of GPT-3

Responsible AI /

Reinforcing Responsibility into Language Models: The Case of GPT-3 If the use of the state-of-the-art language models such as GPT-3 expanded,would that discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or nationality? It is timely to ask, how we can address social and ethical concerns related to the development of language models. Making code open source does

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