Membership

Some benefits of becoming a member
* Your direct means of professional and social networking with persons from other disciplines, departments and institutions. Many of the recent outstanding research developments are at the interface of disciplines.
* Opportunities to extend greatly your breadth of interests beyond your own specialty and to present your ideas to a wider audience.
* Your association with a distinguished Academy and the potential to be elected a Fellow or Member - with advance in your professional status.
* Your opportunity to be recognised for noteworthy contributions to your community.
* Deductions on your attendance fees at Academy functions, at which there will be outstanding speakers - local, interstate and international.

Classes of membership
Fellows - by nomination (post nominal FQA)
Members
Concession Members (students & unemployed)

Nominations 
Would you like to nominate some people as members?
There is a nominal annual fee for fellowship and membership to the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. Please be aware that nominees will be asked to pay their fees only on approval and acceptance of their nomination.

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academy council

	President Professor Jim Pope is a Biophsicist and former Head of the School of Physical & Chemical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where he currently holds the position of Adjunct Professor and carries out research in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He has previously held positions as President of the Australian Society for Biophysics and Chairperson of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics. His hobbies include bush walking, gardening, reading and listening to classical music.
	Vice President Professor Ron Dickinson Director TetraQ and co-founder of the Centre for Studies in Drug Disposition (CSDD) at The University of Queensland and the Phase 1 clinical trials provider, Q-Pharm. He has considerable expertise in carrying out contract bioequivalence and pharmacokinetic studies for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
	Vice President Emeritus Professor Graeme Halford FASSA FQAProfessor of Psychology, University of Queensland; Former Convenor Queensland, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Author of four books and numerous articles on psychology, education, and child development. Immediate past president of this Academy
	Treasurer Mr Hamish Bain MEcon FAICD FQA Consulting Economist; Hon Trustee and Counsellor of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA); Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; Former Chief Economist, Queensland Industry Development Corporation; Past State President, Economics Society of Australia.
	Secretary Ann Manion B Sc Grad Cert Ed FQA Science educator and writer; president of Queensland Porcelain Artists Inc; Director of Zonta Club of Brisbane River.
	Councillor Professor Ross Young Executive Director, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), QUT, in April 2006. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Alcohol Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Clinical Psychologist and his research interests lie in the integration of psychological and biological risk factors in mental illness. His research includes work in substance misuse, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and more broadly in behavioural medicine.
	Councillor Dr Peter Rothlisberg has recently retired from the CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR), where he specialised in fisheries oceanography, aquaculture and biotechnology. He his a former President of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, Board Member of the World Aquaculture Association and Board Member of two Cooperative Research Centres. He is currently a Post-retirement Fellow at CMAR and also a Queensland Art Gallery Volunteer Guide and Foundation Member.
	Councillor Dr John O'Hagan FRACI FAACB FQA Research Biochemist; Former Principal Research Scientist CSIRO; Former NH&MRC Research Fellow University of Queensland; Past President Royal Society of Queensland. Wide range of interests in sciences, technologies, social sciences and the arts. Inaugural President of this Academy

academy companions

The Companions of the Academy have achieved a high level of eminence in promoting its objectives and have been awarded an honorary and life time Companionship recognition.

	Mr Michael Bryce AM AE B Arch D Univ LFDIA LFRAIA FRSA Patron of QAAS until 30 June 2008. Mr Bryce is an Adjunct Professor of Design at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), School of Design and Architecture (University of Canberra) and formerly the College of Fine Arts (University of New South Wales). His professional qualifications include Life Fellowships of the Design Institute of Australia, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. .
	Anna Bligh Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland and leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party from 2007. Queensland Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for State Development, Trade and Innovation from 2 February 2006. Deputy Premier and Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Trade and Innovation 28 July 2005 - 2 February 2006. Minister for Education since February 2001. Prior to that appointment she held the portfolio for Families, Youth and Community Care and was Queensland's first Minister for Disability Services.
	Dr John Rigby Born in 1922 in Brisbane, he studied at ESTC, 1948-51; travel studies, Italy and UK, 1957-58. His colourful figurative paintings of rain forests, landscapes and portraits feature regularly in Archibald, Wynne and other national exhibitions as well as in his own exhibitions (approximately 30, 1954-92) in Qld, Sydney and Melbourne. He was a cartoonist for the Sunday Mail and held and participated in a number of group exhibitions. Designed the Academy logo. http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~rigby/
	Peter Beattie Former Premier of Queensland and leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party at the time the Academy formed. A solicitor by training, Peter became state secretary of the ALP in 1981 and in December 1989 was elected to State Parliament. Peter was elected as party leader in 1996 and lead Labor back into office in 1998. He is now Queensland's Trade Commissioner to North and South America, based in Los Angeles. go to Qld members of parliament biography page

academy members

Academy members include a variety of eminent people in the fields of arts and sciences as well as those working in the cross-over fields of both.

If you would like to become a member of the Academy, please fill out the membership form and we will send you information about events and benefits. If you would like further information about our members or member events please contact the office directly.