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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#323131;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Rechnitz Fund was established in 2022 to <b>support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars in the social sciences, and to support knowledge and understanding of the society,
languages and cultures of Australian Indigenous peoples</b>. It does so through:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Grants for early- and mid-career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social science researchers (including Higher-Degree research students)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323131;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Awards for excellence and research leadership in Indigenous society, culture and language, and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323131;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Support for symposia, lectures and other related activities.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt"><span style="color:#323131;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt"><span style="color:#323131;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Academy’s objective is to support this program for 10 years (2022-32), corresponding to the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages, by leveraging additional
funding as the Fund is established.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt"><span style="color:#323131;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Rechnitz Fund is managed by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (the Academy) with guidance of the Rechnitz Fund Steering Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://socialsciences.org.au/rechnitz-fund/">https://socialsciences.org.au/rechnitz-fund/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Felicity<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">_________________________________________</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Felicity Meakins FASSA FAHA</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/" title="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/">ARC Centre of Excellence for the
Dynamics of Language</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fellow of <a href="https://socialsciences.org.au/" title="https://socialsciences.org.au/">Academy of Social Sciences Australia</a> (FASSA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fellow of <a href="https://humanities.org.au/">Australian Academy of Humanities</a> (FAHA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Editor of <a href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/coll/main" title="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/coll/main">Contact
Language Library</a></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Languages and Cultures | University of Queensland</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">email <a href="mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au" title="mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au">f.meakins@uq.edu.au</a> | </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">web <a href="http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/547" title="http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/547">http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/547</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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