人文学科高等研究院（IASH）成立于2015年7月。它旨在促进历史，哲学和文学等传统人文学科的高水平研究，同时也参与人文学科的最新发展，包括文化研究，传播和科学传播。该研究所由许多全职研究型学者、博士后研究员、教职研究员和访问学者组成。IASH得到了昆士兰大学高级管理人员和人文与社会科学学院的战略资助。其大多数具体研究项目由外部赠款资助。
除了研究和出版活动外，IASH还组织国际会议，公开讲座，主题研讨会系列和内部正在进行的工作研讨会。其成员积极参与国家和国际研究网络，并与一些澳大利亚和海外机构有正式联系。该研究所使命的核心是教员研究员计划，该计划将人文和社会科学学院教学学校的工作人员借调到学院学习一个学期，以开展自己的研究项目。
该研究所结合了昆士兰大学原艺术学院的两个研究中心的研究活动，批判和文化研究中心（CCCS），成立于2000年，由Graeme Turner教授和最近的Gay Hawkins教授指导，以及欧洲话语史中心（CHED），成立于2002年，由Peter Cryle教授和随后的Peter Harrison教授领导以及ARC情感史卓越中心（欧洲1100-1800）的昆士兰大学节点，其首席研究员和主任是Peter Holbrook教授。哈里森教授是IASH的首任主任。
该研究所位于昆士兰大学圣卢西亚校区中心的福根史密斯塔中占据了一个专门建造的研究空间。
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH) was established in July 2015. It aims to promote high-level research in traditional humanities disciplines such as history, philosophy and literature, while also participating in the latest developments in the humanities, including cultural studies, communication and science communication. The Institute is comprised of many full-time research scholars, postdoctoral fellows, faculty fellows, and visiting scholars. IASH received strategic funding from senior executives and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. Most of its specific research projects are funded by external grants.
In addition to research and publication activities, IASH organizes international conferences, public lectures, thematic seminar series, and workshops on ongoing work in-house. Its members are actively involved in national and international research networks and have formal links with a number of Australian and overseas institutions. At the heart of the Institute's mission is the Faculty Fellows Program, which seconds staff from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences teaching school to the College for a semester to conduct their own research projects.
The Institute combines the research activities of two research centres in the former School of the Arts at the University of Queensland, the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (CCCS), established in 2000 under the direction of Professor Graeme Turner and more recently Professor Gay Hawkins, and the Centre for the History of European Discourse (CHED), established in 2002 by Professor Peter Cryle and subsequently Peter Professor Harrison leads the University of Queensland node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), whose principal investigator and director is Professor Peter Holbrook. Professor Harrison was the first Director of IASH.
The institute occupies a purpose-built research space in the Fogensmith Tower in the heart of the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.