On election, each Fellow is assigned to one of four panels, depending on their discipline: The Academy is an incorporated association and a registered charity with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.
The President serves a three-year term with an additional year as President-Elect and two-years as Immediate Past-President.
[2] These include, but are not limited to: The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research are named in honour of the Academy’s past president Paul Francis Bourke (1938–1999) who was a product of the History school at the University of Melbourne and went on to become one of the first Australian historians to obtain American style doctoral training.
Based on nominations from Fellows, each Panel of the Academy will select one outstanding scholar to receive one of four Paul Bourke Awards.
It is the intention of the Academy that the awards are presented to social science researchers who, at the time of nomination, do not yet hold an Associate Professor or Professorial appointment.
[3] The Academy’s long-standing Workshop Program provides small grants to support interdisciplinary meetings discussing contemporary policy or research issues of interest to the social sciences.
It is a condition of funding that workshops are gender balanced in terms of speakers and participants, and include at least two early career researchers.