College of Arts & Social Sciences
Young Aussies satisfied with direction of country amid voter power shift title
Despite cost-of-living pressures and sky-rocketing house prices disproportionately impacting Australia’s youth, two-in-three young Aussies, 67.1 per cent, say they are satisfied with the direction of the country, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).
CASS researchers awarded over $4M in ARC Discovery Projects title
15 researchers in the Australian National University (ANU) College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) have been awarded funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), securing a total of $4.27 million to help expand Australia’s knowledge base and research capability.
Investigating the legality of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and studying the role of women in shaping the history of colloquial language in Australia are among the research aims of the new government-funded CASS research projects.
Cost of living pressures behind Dictionary’s Word of the Year title
Widespread dissatisfaction with the cost of groceries and an investigation into questionable pricing policies at Australia’s largest supermarkets has led word nerds at The Australian National University (ANU) to pick Colesworth as their Word of the Year for 2024.
Colesworth is a portmanteau – or blended word – used in reference to the perceived duopoly of Australia’s largest supermarket retailers, Coles and Woolworths.
Aussie social cohesion steady, but strained by cost-of-living pressures title
Financial stress continues to impact Australians’ sense of belonging, but the country’s social cohesion has held strong over the past 12 months, according to a major study from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute.
The ANU Fulbright Nancy Munn Lecture and Roundtable: Seven Decades Walking with the Warlpiri title
Public Lecture
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the field and how what mattered and who mattered changed
Professor Françoise Dussart discusses the challenges Professor Nancy Munn—one of the first female Fulbright scholars from America to undertake research in Australia— faced in the 1950s and 1960s when she carried out fieldwork with the Warlpiri people living at Yuendumu, and later with the Pitjantjatjara people at Utju.
Rhianna Gallagher title
After four years immersed in medical science, political philosophy, and ethics, Rhianna Gallagher is prepared to embark on a career in international policy. With a passion for global health, she aims to focus on Australia's evolving role in healthcare across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Moving from Melbourne to Canberra, Rhianna undertook a Flexible Double Degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) and Medical Science at the Australian National University (ANU).
Can America remain a superpower with its reputation under fire? title
Although America’s public image may be slipping, ANU research shows its power and influence remains unrivalled. For now.
From Hollywood blockbusters to the Super Bowl, the United States has always had a showstopping global presence.
But what happens when the country’s ultimate export— democracy —starts to wobble?
Book launch. Editors: Bruce M. Smyth, Michael A. Martin & Mandy Downing title
About the Edited Volume
The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia highlights why it is important to look at the subject of research ethics and integrity within the Australian context, and what the Australian perspective can offer to all researchers in the social sciences globally.
Can a ‘Trumpist’ approach to politics work in Australia? title
By Professor Mark Kenny, Australian Studies Institute.
In one of their typically literary sketches, 1990s comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie asked if Adolf Hitler’s fanatical racist oratory would have been as charismatic if delivered in English.