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Australian Data Archive to host Asia Foundation surveys
The Australian Data Archive and Asia Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to allow the Archive to host the Asia Foundation’s extensive survey collection from its 18-country network in Asia. Professor Matthew Gray, Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods at…
New research explores how we tell someone's age from their voice
We’re pretty good at guessing how old someone is just by hearing their voice. However, we’re not uniformly good at estimating the age of all people – we’re better with some groups than others. So what accounts for this difference? Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva from the ANU School of Literature,…
ANU School of Art and Design appoints new Head of Sculpture
The Australian National University (ANU) School of Art and Design is set to take on new European influence with the appointment of international artist Alex Martinis Roe as its Head of Sculpture. Dr Martinis Roe has taken on the position after nearly a decade working in Germany. Her work…
Bringing the Gamilaraay language back from the brink
Priscilla Strasek is an Indigenous Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay woman from Lightning Ridge in New South Wales who is on a mission to help bring the native language of her people - Gamilaraay - back from the brink of extinction. Gamilaraay is an Indigenous Australian language from the mid-northwest of…
Tuckwell Scholar and PPE grad becomes Stanford researcher
A high-achieving former Tuckwell Scholarship recipient, now CASS alumnus, has begun a research position at Stanford University. Matthew Jacob (B PPE Hons, ’17) will spend at least six months as a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research. “I will be working…
Redefining knowledge of elderly people throughout history
An archaeologist from The Australian National University (ANU) is set to redefine what we know about elderly people in cultures throughout history, and dispel the myth that most people didn’t live much past 40 prior to modern medicine. Christine Cave, a PhD Scholar with the ANU School of…
Cabinet papers 1994-95: The Keating government begins to craft its legacy
By Prof. Nicholas Brown, ANU School of HistoryIf Labor was surprised by its re-election in March 1993 – the “sweetest victory of them all”, as Paul Keating claimed – there was, for months before the 1996 election was called, much less confidence in government ranks that it could hang on.They were…