RSSA November 2026 AGM and Grant Recipient Presentations

The Royal Society of South Australia is pleased to invite you to out 2026 Annual General Meeting, including presentations from 2025 Small Research Grant recipients.

The scientific presentation component of the evening will be preceded by the RSSA AGM and you are encouraged to attend.  The business of the AGM will be short and include routine matters.

It is our pleasure as a society to support researchers early in their careers to conduct their work, through the Small Research Grants Program. To present at out AGM, we have invited students and early career researchers who received grant funding from the RSSA in 2025, and five recipients have generously said yes. Please join us as we learn about their exciting research and celebrate their achievements.

• Alan Cook - Echoes of G.F. Angas: Sonic Traces in Settler Landscapes

• Isabella Donato - The palaeoecology of Quaternary-aged fossil Varanus from the Naracoorte Caves, South Australia

• Dr Andrew Frost - Assessing the Paleontological applications of Ground Penetrating Radar within a current excavation pit

• Joshua Batt - Re-evaluating the Australian Strepsodus: Implications for Rhizodont Evolution and Limb Function

• Maddison Randall - Navigating the Night: Ecomorphological adaptations in the inner ears of bats

The event will begin at 6:00 pm with nibbles, refreshments and opportunities for pre-meeting discussions and networking. A small donation to the RSSA is greatly appreciated to partake in this and support the continued provision of these pre-meeting treats.

This event will be held in-person in the Royal Society rooms, but we will simultaneously live-stream the meeting via Zoom for those not able to attend on the night.

To attend either in person, or online, you must register here. The zoom link will be sent to you on registration. Please feel free to share this event with your institution or networks.

If in-person tickets are sold out, please be aware that we are unable to admit more people than our room capacity. If online tickets are sold out, please contact admin@rssa.org.au and we can supply the zoom link to you.

For more information on the location of the RSSA rooms, please visit https://www.rssa.org.au/contact/