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CASS wins five ARC Future Fellowships
The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences has been awarded five new Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships announced today. ARC Future Fellowships aim to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers to undertake research in areas of critical national importance…
Dr John Minns awarded Australia's best teacher
ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated Dr John Minns, who last night was awarded higher education teaching’s highest honour - the 2010 Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. Dr Minns is a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations…
New Director for the ANU Centre for European Studies
Associate Professor Jacqueline Lo has been appointed the new Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) to lead the university’s commitment to create synergies, interdisciplinary dialogues and generate collaborative research projects focusing on Europe. The ANU Centre for European…
Languages academic wins Polish Science Foundation prize
School of Language Studies academic, Professor Anna Wierzbicka, has been awarded the Polish Science Foundation Prize in the area of humanities and social sciences for her work in semantics (“For creating the theory of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage”). The award will be presented a formal…
PhD Applications Open for ARC Project on Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Redesigning Roles and Practices
Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to be funded as part of an ARC Linkage grant to begin in 2010. The scholarship is valued at $27,222 per annum (tax free and indexed annually) and may be renewed for up to three years subject to satisfactory progress. The successful candidate will be…
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences signs Memo of Understanding with the National Film and Sound Archive
The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences (CASS) and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate the establishment of closer collaborative arrangements between NFSA and CASS by setting out a framework for future collaboration…
CASS wins $4.5 million in ARC Discovery & Linkages Grants
The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences (CASS) was awarded 15 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery and one Linkage Grant in the October 2010 round of funding released today, totaling approximately $4.5 million towards research projects in the social sciences, humanities and the arts…