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05
Nov
2012

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…

05
Nov
2012

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…

02
Nov
2012

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…

02
Nov
2012

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…

01
Nov
2012

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…

30
Oct
2012

Professor Jon Altman elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand

The College of Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Professor Jon Altman has recently been elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand.  Professor Altman's election to Honorary Fellow was announced at the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand,…

25
Oct
2012

Book on the history of the Antarctic Treaty System wins Australian Educational Publishing award

Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System: 50 Years of Influence (UNSW Press), edited by Tom Griffiths, School of History, ANU and Marcus Haward, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, has been named a joint winner in the category of Tertiary Scholarly Resource in the…