Please support our work

The Society relies on having a vibrant membership and on voluntary contributions to support its work in advancing knowledge and inquiry, and promoting learned discussion and debate. Your support will allow us to continue to influence and contribute to the development of Australia's future.

Membership

An excellent way to support the work of the Society is to join and become actively involved in its activities.  Membership is open to any person interested in contributing to a just, secure, and sustainable future, participating in discussions and debates based on authentic and authoritative information, and the advancement of knowledge in science, art, literature, and philosophy. The Society offers a vibrant program of lectures and special events that are held in Sydney and through its various branches in the Hunter region, the Southern Highlands, and Western NSW.

More information about the categories of membership, and how to join the Society is available through the preceding links.

Giving

We are a registered charity and very much welcome your support through donations or a bequest. 

Bequests

Since its inception, the Society has benefited greatly from generous donations and bequests from both members and other benefactors. Most of the Society's prestigious awards and much of its library were established as a consequence of bequests.  

If you are able, please consider leaving a legacy to the future by remembering the Society in your will, thereby increasing our ability to make lasting and influential contributions to intellectual life in New South Wales and to Australia's future. 

If this is of interest to you, please see our Bequests information page. 

Donations

Please support the work of the Society with a one-off or regular donations.  Donations to the Library and Scholarship Funds are tax-deductible.

You may support this work with a donation via a:

• credit card, through the Society’s GiveNow account, for the current fundraising drive (late 2023) for the RSNSW Bicentennial Postgraduate Scholarships.
• a direct bank deposit using the pdf Donation Form, allowing you to donate to the tax-deductible Library and Scholarship Funds, or to make a General Donation (which is not tax-deductible). 

Editorial Board

The Society publishes one of the oldest peer-reviewed journals in the Southern Hemisphere, the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. The journal is edited to high academic standards, and attracts publications predominantly in the sciences but also across all other disciplines of interest to the Society's readership.

The members of the editorial board are:

Dr. David Branagan MSc PhD(Syd) DSc(Hon)(Syd) FGS MAusIMM
Dr. Donald Hector BE PhD(Syd) CEng FRSN FIChemE FIEAust FAICD
Em. Prof. David Brynn Hibbert BSc PhD(Lond) CChem FRSN FRSC RACIV
Em. Prof. Heinrich Hora DipPhys Dr.rer.nat DSc FRSN FAIP FInstP CPhys
Dr. Michael Lake BSc PhD(Syd)
Dr. Nick Lomb BSc PhD(Syd)
Em. Prof. Robert Marks BE ME(Melb) MS PhD(Stanf) (Hon. Editor)
Prof. Bruce Warren MB BS(Syd) MA DPhil(Oxon) DistFRSN FRCPath

The Honorary Editor may be contacted directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

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Location of Sydney meetings

Most face-to-face meetings of the Society are held in the Metcalfe Theatre of the State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney.

Meetings are also conducted online as Zoom webinars.

Information for Authors

Papers (other than those specially invited by the Editorial Board) will only be considered if the content is either substantially new material that has not been published previously, or is a review of a major research programme. In the case of papers presenting new research, the author must certify that the material has not been submitted concurrently elsewhere nor is likely to be published elsewhere in substantially the same form. In the case of papers reviewing a major research programme, the author must certify that the material has not been published substantially in the same form elsewhere and that permission for the Society to publish has been granted by all copyright holders. Letters to the Editor and short notes may also be submitted for publication.

Manuscripts are only accepted in digital format and should be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If the file is too large to email, please contact the editor, at the above email address.

Manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editor, in consultation with the Editorial Board (above), to decide whether the paper will be considered for publication in the Journal. Manuscripts are subjected to peer review by at least one independent reviewer. In the event of initial rejection, manuscripts may be sent to other reviewers.

The Society does not require authors to transfer the copyright of their manuscript to the Society but authors are required to grant the Society an unrestricted licence to reproduce in any form manuscripts accepted for publication in the Journal and Proceedings. Enquiries relating to copyright or reproduction of an article should be directed to the author.

Issues are scheduled to be published in June and December each year. An electronic version is posted to the web site and this is the formal publication date. The printed version is published 4-6 weeks after the electronic version is published.

 

Key dates for publication in Part 1

Key dates for publication in Part 2

Style guide and templates

Authors intending to submit papers for publication in the Journal and Proceedings are referred to the style guide that outlines formatting and submission requirements.  Authors who use Thomson Reuters' EndNote bibliographic software may download an EndNote style template that is specifically designed for the Journal and Proceedings.  Two Microsoft Word templates are available for download, one for refereed papers, the other for thesis abstracts.  Papers should be submitted using these templates.

Papers for consideration are only accepted electronically.  Paper manuscripts will not be accepted and will be returned unread to the corresponding author.