
Professor Ian McAllister Receives Prestigious International Award for Public Opinion Research
The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) is proud to share that Professor Ian McAllister has been awarded the 2025 Helen Dinerman Award by the World Association for Public Opinion…

Celebrating Antony Green: Reflecting on a Legacy of Australian Election Analysis
Political scientists from across the country met at the Australian National University on Friday 13 June to plan the 2025 book in the Academy of the Social Sciences Federal Election series, published…

Empowering Political Science: The 2nd Annual Quantitative Workshop at ANU
The APSA Quantitative Methods Research Group, chaired by Dr Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca and Dr Thiago Nascimento da Silva, organised the 2nd Annual Quantitative Workshop on 4 June 2025 at the…

Call for Respondents for the Comparative Political Adviser Survey (COMPAS 2025) Project
The Comparative Political Adviser Survey (COMPAS) is the first survey-based comparative research on former political staff in 14 countries: Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand,…

Entries open for the 2025 Ronald L. Watts – Young Scholar Award
The Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF) of the ANU School of Politics & International Relations, is pleased to announce the 2025 Ronald L. Watts – Young Scholar Award. As an eligible…

Expert Analysis on High Court's Impact on Commonwealth-State Fiscal Relations Delivered at ANU Symposium
On 30 November-01 December 2024 Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism, Dr. Tracy Beck Fenwick addressed the Commonwealth Solicitor General, the Chief Justice and…

Echoes of the 2024 USA Presidential Election: Lessons and Future Implications
On 7 November 2024, the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) at the Australian National University (ANU), with the generous support of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS),…