Research stories
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 materials…
Voices of Regional Australia project receives ARC Discovery Project funding
The Voices of Regional Australia: The linguistic patterning of local attachment has been successful in receiving an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project funding to the tune of $354,815.The project will be led by a team of linguists, including Professor Catherine Travis, Chair of…
Understanding language development to improve Indigenous children’s wellbeing
Many Indigenous children who grow up in Central Australian towns and remote communities speak in a combination of languages to communicate with their families – often using more than one language in a single interaction or sentence.For years, evaluating Indigenous children's language knowledge has…
Yujie Zhu ARC Discovery Project: Remembering, Forgetting and the Politics of Memory
Dr Yujie Zhu has been successful in obtaining an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project award of $180,000. Planting these funds over the next three years to grow a successful garden of knowledge, insight, and understanding into the cultural politics of memory and heritage. Dr Zhu is…
ARC Linkage Projects success in CASS
Join us in congratulating Honorary Professor Chris McAuliffe and Dr Raquel Ormella for their recent achievement securing an ARC Linkage Projects grant. The CASS scholars have been awarded $400,596 in funding to support proactive engagement with controversial objects in Australian museums. They…
CASS Researcher Dr Catherine Frieman awarded Future Fellowship
Associate Professor Dr Catherine Frieman from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology is the recipient of the prestigious four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council and has received $1,057,210 in funding.Dr Frieman has been awarded the fellowship for her project ‘…