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Citizen science project explores search engine secrets
Do search engines influence you more than you think? Now is your chance to help QUT researchers find out.
In 2020, Google processed more than 3.5 billion searches a day – and Forbes Magazine reports that most people see search engines as the most trusted source of information. But not all searches produce the same results.
Search engines adjust their recommendations to suit our interests. The big question is how such personalisation can influence our decisions on anything from where to holiday to whether we get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The new QUT-led Australian Search Experience project aims to find out. It invites Australian Internet users to join the project as citizen scientists, and download a simple browser plugin to their computer. To install the plugin, simply go to https://www.admscentre.org.au/searchexperience/ and follow the instructions.
Professor Kishan Dholakia (left) and Professor Zaiping Guo
Two University of Adelaide scientists have been awarded prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowships by the Australian Research Council. Professor Kishan Dholakia will undertake research into wide-field optical imaging and Professor Zaiping Guo will work on pushing the boundaries of battery technology.
Professor Dholakia, from the School of Biological Sciences, is an expert in physics and biophysics.
“My Laureate Fellowship aims to transform wide-field optical imaging through a new ‘intelligent’ microscopy able to capture 3D volumetric images,” said Professor Dholakia.
“While optical methods for imaging are used extensively, achieving wide-field imaging through scattering media with high resolution and depth is a major challenge, mainly due to the limited penetration depth of light.”
Professor Sharon Friel from the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is one of three academics from ANU who secured the prestigious award this year.
In reflecting on being the first and only person in her family to go to university (until her niece started in 2017), Sharon says that winning the Laureate feels “lovely, a little surreal and an important responsibility.”
“I would like to think that my award of the Laureate shows others from a variety of backgrounds what is possible, remembering the importance of structural and social support that sits behind this success.”
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Australian Laureate Fellowships at forefront of Australian research
Seventeen outstanding new Australian Laureate Fellows will receive a total of $53.7 million in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to conduct ground-breaking, internationally competitive research.
ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Sue Thomas, welcomed today’s announcement by Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge of the successful 2021 Australian Laureate Fellows awarded through the ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme.
“These prestigious fellowships, highly coveted in the Australian research sector, provide support to some of our best and brightest researchers to focus on important areas of research,” said Professor Thomas.
“Australian Laureate Fellows also perform a vital role in developing and mentoring the next generation of Australian researchers.
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