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American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: From Bush to Obama
American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: from Bush to Obama, co-edited by Professor Amin Sakal, Director of the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, explores the contradictions in American Democracy promotion in the Middle East in the current era. The recent ‘Arab spring’, with its…
College receives 17 ARC grants
In the Australian Research Council (ARC) grants announced yesterday, for commencement in January 2013, the College received 17 successful applications across the Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) projects. The College received nine…
Lack of confidence on corruption: Poll
The media, trade unions and political parties top the list of institutions the public perceives to be the most corrupt and in which they have the least confidence, while 43 per cent of Australians believe that the level of corruption in Australia has increased, according to the latest ANUpoll…
The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews included in 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist
Dr Martin Thomas, ARC Future Fellow at School of History, ANU has been shortlisted for The Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction ($40,000), for his work The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist. Dr Thomas is one of 72 authors and…
Social networking and successful ageing
A new Facebook application developed by researchers at The Australian National University will help shed light on how seniors use online social networks. The application will provide data for a pioneering research project into how Australian seniors are using the Facebook social networking site to…
Professor Matthew Gray awarded joint winner of the FISS Best Paper Prize
The College of Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Professor Matthew C Gray has been awarded the best paper prize (joint winner) for his paper 'The Economic Consequences of Divorce and Implications for the Australian Social Protection System', which he presented in Sweden at the…
ANU students celebrate Swiss culture
Nine of the University’s students studying the official languages of Switzerland have been recognised at the annual Swiss Prize ceremony. The prize, which is jointly offered by the Swiss Embassy and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, recognises students who excel at Italian, German and…