ERA results show Humanities and Social Sciences at ANU remain in outstanding position
The ERA results solidify the university's position as being the place to study if you want to learn from and work with the very best research leaders in Humanities and Social Sciences. Photo: Stuart Hay
The College of Arts and Social Sciences has again performed above world-class levels in the Commonwealth’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative .
The 2015 ERA national report offers a comprehensive overview of the quality of research conducted at Australian tertiary institutions. The College performed strongly in the previous 2012 ERA round, and in this latest round it has bettered some of its earlier results.
College Dean, Professor Paul Pickering, expressed his pride in the contributions of College staff.
“ANU has again emerged as Australia’s number one university and the Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines have made a tremendous contribution,” Professor Pickering said.
“There is much to be proud of.”
Professor Pickering said the Humanities and Social Sciences at ANU remain in an outstanding position.
“These results speak volumes to the expertise and hard work of all our staff,” he said.
These include the discipline of Political Science, recognised once again with a 5 rating, which means well above world standard. Other College disciplines that achieved a 5 rating were Criminology, Linguistics, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Historical Studies.
At the above world standard rating of 4 were the College disciplines of Demography, Anthropology, Sociology, Language Studies, and Literary Studies. New entrants into this category were Curatorial and Related Studies and Performing Arts and Creative Writing.
“The ERA results only solidify our position as being the place to study if you want to learn from and work with the very best research leaders,” Professor Pickering said.
“Many of our core disciplines have again been ranked above or well above world standard.
“One of the most exciting things about our ERA submission was the increase in the number of disciplines we submitted for assessment.
“Among the disciplines we submitted for assessment for the first time was curatorial and heritage studies, which was ranked at above world standard.
"The new Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies has emerged as a national research leader, attracting the best rating in the country.
“Similarly, the new School of Demography has been given a flying start with an above world standard rating."