The nesshi team are working from home and will not be back in our office at Melbourne University for some time yet, making it difficult to receive and distribute nominated books to the panel. We will still run our other prizes (the new nesshi Future Leaders Writing Prize, Distinctive Work Prize and the Student Prize) with electronic submission of material only. See the 2020 nesshi Prizes page for details. The nesshi Book Prize for both 2019 and 2020 publications will run concurrently in 20201. Our prize jury loves to get their hands on the nominated books and are looking forward to reading even more great entries next year.
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Established in 2004, nesshi promotes and provides advocacy services for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (nesshi) in Australia. Supporting more than 75 member organisations in their relationships with policy makers and the broader community, nesshi is an important network for knowledge and skills, and serves as a coordinating forum for teachers, researchers, professionals, practitioners and policy makers in the sector. It provides a strong voice to the sector and helps members to contribute to public debate through programs for knowledge exchange and media awareness. Member organisations Our members engage in research and professional practice in disciplines ranging from education, history, languages and philosophy, to demography, journalism, geography and sociology. Leading universities, discipline associations, peak bodies and collecting institutions are represented in our membership body. The performing and visual arts areas are well represented through art form groups and research and training institutions, as are media arts and design and publishing. Members are specialists in the knowledge and skills of their disciplines and professions and are major advocates and networks for their fields. Our membership reflects an emerging focus on trans-disciplinary research and collaboration, with members engaged in new projects tackling the major challenges before Australia in partnership with traditional science areas and industry groups
What is nesshi? The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (nesshi) are critically important to Australia. They play a key role in the national innovation system and underpin the development of our society, culture and individual identity. nesshi works towards greater recognition of people, projects and organisations working in the sector and to strengthen their capacity to contribute. A 2008 report on the sector by the London School of Economics for the British Academy identifies a broad group of academic disciplines dedicated to the study of society, the economy, business, governance, history and culture. Researchers are also identifying the emergence of new disciplines to tackle some of the major challenges facing contemporary society and cross over with the traditional science areas. A small sample of these disciplines indicates the breadth and importance of the nesshi disciplines. In the humanities, these include philosophy languages, literature studies and history, and anthropology. In the social sciences, they include economics, sociology, education, social policy social work and demography. Emerging areas of crossover include law, linguistics and cultural studies and geography, while the creative arts areas cross into design, architecture and landscape architecture. Together these disciplines drive activity in major organisations and institutions across Australian society and are major contributors to prosperity and productivity growth. Research, design and development are dependent on their new knowledge. Publishers and museums and galleries are major organisations using nesshi skills and knowledge to reach out to Australian communities, while in our universities and research institutions there is a rich tradition of academic study, which give students and graduates knowledge to take a role as citizens and community members.