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Research

Research in Humanities and Social Sciences encompasses a wide variety of disciplinary approaches to documenting, clarifying, shaping and enriching thought and behaviour.

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Japan's Foreign Policy in Focus Story

Japan's Foreign Policy in Focus

Examining Japan’s role in regional institutions and cooperation and competition in energy security and climate change is the focus of an ARC Discovery Project led by Purnendra Jain, professor in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. [Read More ]

Ballet Russes Research Project

Final Ovation for Highly Successful Ballets Russes Project

The Ballet Russes Project which explored the social and cultural impact of tours to Australia and New Zealand during the 1930s by Colonel Wassily de Basil's acclaimed Ballets Russes, has been completed after four years. [Read More]

The Bath Fugues Short-Listed for Miles Franklin Award

The Write Stuff Leads to Miles Franklin Shortlist

The novel The Bath Fugues written by Professor Brian Castro was recently short-listed for both the South Australian Premier’s Literary Prize and the Miles Franklin Award [Read More]

Ancient & Modern Approaches to Grief Study

ARC Study Compares Ancient and Modern Approaches to Grief

Associate Professor Han Baltussen from Classics in the School of Humanities is leading an ARC funded interdisciplinary project called Ancient Consolation and Psychotherapy: Grief and Care of the Soul [Read More]

Sustainable Population Advisory Panel

Graeme Hugo to Lead New Sustainable Population Advisory Panel

Professor Graeme Hugo has recently been appointed Chair of the Demographic Change and Liveability Advisory Panel of the new Ministry of Sustainable Population [Read More]

Youth Report Released by Associate Professor John Spoehr

New Report Shapes State Youth Policy

South Australia's Young People: Emerging Issues and Priorities, prepared by a team of researchers at the Australian Institute for Social Research, is one of the most comprehensive overviews of the key issues facing young people in South Australia [Read More]

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  • A New Centre Where Inspiration, Ideas and Invention Come Together [Read More]
  • Faculty Researchers Awarded More Than $1.3 Million in Federal Funding [Read More]
  • Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions Wins Major Grant [Read More]
  • German Studies Conference - Discipline of German Studies - Call for Papers [Read More]