Research stories
Congratulations! Dr Una McIlvenna awarded Future Fellowship for Singing the News: Ballads as News Media in Europe and Australia, 1550-1920
Dr Una McIlvenna from the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics is the recipient of a four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The project Singing the News: Ballads as News Media in Europe and Australia, 1550-1920 reveals how songs in premodern Europe and…
Top marks: Aussies show trust in education institutions
Education institutions are some of the most trusted in Australia, but our faith in schools has dropped significantly since the first year of the pandemic, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU). In the latest ANUpoll of nearly 4,500 adults across the country, 67.9…
Dr Gemma King’s ‘Sign on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’ receives DECRA funding
Dr Gemma King’s project ‘Sign on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’ is the recipient of Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The project aims to discover how contemporary screens represent deafness and how…
Living with Smallpox in Early Modern Britain
In the two centuries prior the advent of vaccination, early modern Britons lived in the shadow of a viral disease which often left death, blindness, or pockmarked survivors in its wake. Contrast this, if you will, to the dawn of 2020, when another invisible adversary brought Britain, along with the…
Australians sceptical when it comes to future of AI
Australians have relatively high levels of concern about artificial intelligence (AI), and are sceptical about the number of jobs it will create, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU). The study shows Australians are much more likely to think other areas of science…
CAIS scholars help drive Middle East-Australia trade relations
Two CAIS scholars have successfully secured a $40k grant from the Australian Government to run an innovative national workshop – the first of its kind in Australia. The grant will enable the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies to run a summit identifying how Australian and the Arab Gulf…
Catherine Frieman is the recipient of a Future Fellowship for ‘Kin and Connection: Ancient DNA between the Science and the Social’
Ancient DNA has emerged as a powerful tool that can help bridge the gap between social and scientific archaeologies. Associate Professor Catherine J. Frieman’s research project ‘Kin and Connection: Ancient DNA between the Science and the Social’ aims to use genetic data and archaeological…