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Peter McDonald appointed Deputy Director of an ARC Centre of Excellence for Population Ageing Research
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSDRI) Director, Professor Peter McDonald, has been appointed as the Deputy Director for the UNSW-led Population Ageing Research Centre for Excellence. The Centre aims to execute world class basic and applied research to transform our…
Exploring Indigenous landscapes
Professor Ann McGrath from the ANU School of History has been awarded an ARC Linkage Grant to investigate the social and environmental links that create historical ‘highways’ of understanding, including song-lines, tracks, exploration, trade, pastoral and tourism routes in selected indigenous…
Australian Electoral Study
With the upcoming election in full swing, Professor Ian McAllister’s Australian Electoral Study is particularly timely and relevant as he asks “Does the Australian political party system offer voters a meaningful set of political choices?” Professor McAllister suggests we know from international…
PhD scholarship at Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Deepening histories of place: Exploring indigenous landscapes of national and international significance The Australian Centre for Indigenous History, located in the School of History at the Australian National University, invites applications for an Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)…
Book launch - A Three Cornered Life
The Chancellor of the Australian National University, Professor Gareth Evans AO QC, formally launched Jim Davidson’s publication, A Three-Cornered Life: WK Hancock, Historian, in front of 80 guests of the National Centre for Biography on Wednesday 17 July. The book showcases the enormous…
Graduations this week
Thursday 15 July will see a flurry of Arts and Social Sciences undergraduate, graduate and PhD students celebrate their formal graduations from the ANU. Students from the Bachelor of Arts suite of undergraduate programs will dominate the Graduation Ceremony but the College will also…
Shawn O'Donnell - ANU Master of Archaeological Science's Inaugural Graduate
Congratulations to Shawn O`Donnell, the first graduate of the new ANU degree, Master of Archaeological Science. Shawn will be awarded the new degree at the ANU Graduations in July 2010. Shawn was the first international student to enter the program (in 2009), completing the degree full-time…