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Postcard

CIRES Research Postcards: Hechuan Wen

Reflections on research, travel, and collaboration In 2025 as part of his PhD with CIRES, Dr Hechuan Wen undertook a visiting research placement at the University of Melbourne and presented his work at two major international conferences in Canada. These experiences provided opportunities to share h...

Profile

Advancing Causal Effect Estimation for Real-World Decision-Making: Dr Hechuan Wen’s Journey

How can organisations make informed decisions when the data available are limited, changing, or incomplete? This question became the focus of CIRES PhD graduate Dr Hechuan Wen’s thesis, Advancing Causal Effect Estimation: From Training Data Expansion to Estimator Design, supervised by Associate Pr...

Report

Industry Placement in PhD Training: A National Study of Student and Advisor Experiences

*New national report now available* Australia’s research training system is at an inflection point. As industry demand for research-trained professionals continues to grow, PhD industry placements are playing an increasingly critical role in bridging doctoral education and the innovation econo...

Profile

From Data to Impact: Dr Daisy Xu’s Journey in Understanding How Organisations (Re)Use Data

What makes data truly valuable once it has been collected? For CIRES PhD graduate Dr Daisy Xu, answering this question became the focus of a PhD journey that connected academic research with real-world industry collaboration, culminating in her thesis, Three essays on data (re)use and value creation...

Report

Community Attitudes Towards Data Analytics in Law Enforcement

The Centre conducted a nationally representative survey to examine the Australian public perceptions of Data Analytics (DA) in law enforcement. The study investigated attitudes across five key applications:Predictive Policing Data Analytics-enabled Security Cameras Recidivism Risk Assessment Analy...

Keynote

The Essential Toolkit for Process Scientists: Comprehension, Compliance and Change

CIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq FTSE attended the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2025) in beautiful Seville, Spain. BPM is the most prestigious forum for researchers and practitioners in this field.  For more than four decades, the field of business p...

Podcast

Creating a skilled workforce in Australia

CIRES Centre Director Professor Prof. Shazia Sadiq is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering and joined Stephen Matchett from the Campus Morning Mail on the Expert Opinion podcast to discuss the Academy’s ideas on the importance of creating a skilled work...

Podcast

Researching the changing landscape of social media algorithms

CIRES Chief Investigator Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini was interviewed by Spencer Howson at Radio 4BC about the work the Centre is undertaking on social media platform algorithms and how harmful online content and fake news should be managed. LISTEN TO THE FULL PODCAST HERE ...

Report

Generative AI: Language models and multimodal foundation models

There is significant public conversation about the role AI should have in Australian society. This report was commissioned by Australia’s National Science and Technology Council at the request of the Minister for Industry and Science, the Hon Ed Husic MP in February 2023. CIRES Centre Director Pro...

Video

Information Resilience Symposium 2023

CIRES hosted the second Information Resilience Symposium at Customs House in Brisbane on the 4th October 2023. The event focused on Building Capacity for Enterprise AI with Information Resilience. It discussed the challenges and opportunities for employing AI in an enterprise context, and brought t...

Video

Information Resilience Symposium 2022

  CIRES hosted the inaugural Information Resilience Symposium at Customs House in Brisbane on the 14th November 2022. The event showcased the work underway in the Centre, discussed the challenges and opportunities for Information Resilience in the public sector, and fostered collaborations bet...

Video

Information Resilience PhD School 2022

  CIRES hosted the inaugural Information Resilience PhD School from the 12th to 14th September 2022. Held at the Global Change Institute on The University of Queensland’s St Lucia Campus in Brisbane, Australia, the PhD School welcomed 50 PhD students from 12 universities across Australia...

Interview

Interview with Professor Ian Frazer AC

Emeritus Professor Ian Frazer was the chair of the Translation Research Institute (TRI) founding board, and was previously the founding CEO of TRI. Ian is widely known for his work together with Professor Jian Zhou on the development of the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer. Ian’s work has been...

Interview

Interview with Professor Janeen Baxter

Professor Janeen Baxter has a long history of contributions in social science research including critical topics like social disadvantage, gender inequality, family dynamics, life course and longitudinal studies. She is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Childr...

Interview

Interview with Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, is a marine biologist and climate scientist specialising in coral reefs, in particular bleaching due to global warming and climate change. Besides his outstanding contributions to science , Ove has been an influential contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...

Publication

Manifesto for Information Resilience

Our vision for Information Resilience is outlined in the 2022 paper “Information Resilience: the nexus of responsible and agile approaches to information use” published in the VLDB Journal, Special Issue on Responsible Data Management. Here the Centre’s cross-disciplinary team outl...