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The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector — written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public. Our team of professional editors work with more than 1,600 academic authors to make this wealth of knowledge and expertise accessible to all.

We aim to be a site you can trust. All published work will carry attribution of the authors’ expertise and, where appropriate, will disclose any potential conflicts of interest, and sources of funding. Where errors or misrepresentations occur, we will correct these promptly.

Our initial content partners include the Australian Group of Eight universities (ANU, University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, and University of Western Australia) plus University of Technology, Sydney, CSIRO, and the Australian Science Media Centre.

Sincere thanks go to our Founding Partners who have given funding support. Those universities are Monash, Melbourne, UTS, UWA, plus CSIRO. See also our list of Strategic Partners.

We are based in Melbourne, Australia, and wholly owned by The Conversation Media Trust, a not-for-profit company.

The Conversation has been widely reported in Australia and abroad, including articles in The Guardian, NYT, Harvard's Nieman Media Lab, Slashdot, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Times Higher Education Supplement. Here are some excerpts and links:

On Oct. 23, Futurist Cathy Davidson of Duke University posted the following to her blog. Last year, President Obama nominated Davidson to the U.S. National Council for the Humanities.

On May 19, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard carried an interview by Associate Professor Nikki Usher of George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.

On Oct. 6, the Times Higher Education Supplement ran the following article, “In the virtual newsroom, scholars tell the rest of the story”. The previous week THES also ran this.

On Sept. 28, The Guardian listed The Conversation #2 in its top 10 Australian Social Media influencers in Higher Education.

“There's no doubting the influence of Andrew and Jack's recently launched site. The Conversation started providing an academic analysis of societal issues in March 2011 and is supported by the Group of Eight universities and other notable centres of learning and research.”

The Conversation has also received coverage from Mark Day in The Australian and Shaun Carney in The Age and SMH.

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