Collaborative research successes
The University has a rich and diverse research base enabling research partnerships and collaborations which make a real and valuable contribution to Australia and the wider community.
TimeMap™
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Collaboration between researchers here and California has helped produce a remarkable online database, featuring a series of interacting maps that display change over time. Full story |
Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific
The Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific (RIAP) is an international projects and multidisciplinary agency. Established in 1987, our major consultancy activities are geared towards developing international collaborative ventures that contribute to the building of institutional and human resource capacities; and promotion of network linkages between Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
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PARADISEC
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Dr Linda Barwick in collaboration with the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University heads a project involving linguists, anthropologists and musicologists. Full story |
Higher Education Strategic Initiative
We were recently awarded Higher Education Strategic Initiative - China funding to formalise linkages with Nanjing University through research and research training and to develop a basis of ongoing cooperation.
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Archaeology and pre-history
Dr Judith Field and her colleagues believe they are well on the way to establishing that people and megafauna existed together in harmony for up to 10,000 years.
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Citizenship education in Northern Ireland
A collaborative program between Associate Professor Murray Print, School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education and Professor Alan Smith, UNESCO Chair of Human Rights and Democracy, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, commenced in 2000 with the aim of investigating citizenship education in Northern Ireland.
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International and comparative criminal trial project
Professor Mark Findlay was responsible in 1999 (along with Professor Ralph Henham, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University) for the establishment of the International and Comparative Criminal Trial Project.
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Elamite civilisation in the Near East
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The first ever research project in Iran by Australian archaeologists is yielding important new information about the Elamite civilisation. Full story |
Rehabilitation for high risk offenders
Effective rehabilitation of young offenders is an urgent social need. Using mathematical modelling of longitudinal population data, Professor Dianna Kenny from the Faculty of Health Sciences, received $480,000 to identify predictors of re-offending, health risk behaviours, and/or progression to injecting drug use.
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