Past projects
A history of the Women’s Electoral Lobby
A history of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) has been prepared at the Australian National University with the assistance of Australian Research Council (ARC) Large Research Grant, No. A00104176. WEL is a feminist non-party-political lobby founded in Australia in 1972. WEL’s role as an advocate…
CAEPR Key research areas
The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) Research Plan 2017-2019 is organised around seven themes: Indigenous-driven development Land, water and livelihoods Education and learning in dynamic societies Work, production and economy …
Deepening Histories of Place
This Linkage project, funded by the Australian Research Council, and backed by a consortium of Industry partners, aims to render some of the deeper layers of Australia’s history more accessible to the public. Deepening Histories of Place investigates the social and environmental links that create…
Evaluation of Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning
The Australian National University (ANU) in partnership with the Social Research Centre is in the process of the second Phase of conducting an evaluation of Narragunnawali. The first phase of the evaluationcommenced in early 2015 and continued to 2017. The second phase will continue from 2018…
Gambling Research - Past projects and outcomes
Two reports on gambling expenditure in the ACT (2009 and 2014) are available for download. In 2014, people with gambling problems accounted for nearly half of all ACT losses. Overall, the reports found that gambling revenue is not drawn equally from groups in the community. For more information…
Gender and Feminism in the Social Sciences
In 2012 a pilot project entitled Gender and Feminism in the Social Science was initiated, looking at the relationship between the gender profile of four social science disciplines and their incorporation of feminist critique and knowledge. The project was funded by the Research School of Social…
Heritage in the Limelight
Our Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP160102509) is investigating the ways in which Australia was profoundly shaped by the technology of magic lantern slide projection. Although neglected until now because it did not fit easily into traditional museum and gallery taxonomies, the…