Past projects
Mapping the Australian Women's Movement
Social movements such as the civil rights movement, the environment movement and the women's movement have changed the political landscape of Western democracies in recent decades. If social movements play a crucial role in bringing new issues onto the policy agenda and new actors into the policy…
Migration Memories
Migration Memories is a research project about creating museum exhibitions of Australian migration history from local and personal perspectives. As the idea was to try out some approaches in practice, exhibitions were developed in two regional locations with individuals interested in developing a…
The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes
The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is a biennial survey which began in 2003. AuSSA was managed by the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (now the School of Demography) at the Australian National University until 2012. It is now managed by the Australian Consortium…
The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific
In histories of world archaeology the Pacific and Island Southeast Asia are essentially absent. This project seeks nothing less than to create a new sub-field within Pacific archaeology: the serious study of its history from its beginnings in the speculations of early European and American…