Aisha Younus participated at the Oxford Round Table
"My trip to the halls of Oxford was quite exciting and a great learning experience. The Oxford Round Table (ORT) was attended by ten distinguishing academicians and scholars from the United States…
SPIR PhD student Sarah Cameron granted Janet-Box Steffensmeier Scholarship
SPIR PhD student, Sarah Cameron, has been granted the Janet-Box Steffensmeier Scholarship to attend the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research) Summer Program in…
The politics of lowering the voting age
Arguments supporting a reduction in the voting age to enfranchise Australia’s 16 and 17-year-olds do not stack up, according to a new study by political scientist Professor Ian McAllister at The…
ANU researcher awarded US Peace grant
Dr Maria Rost Rublee is the first researcher from the College of Art and Social Sciences to be granted a United States Institute for Peace (USIP) grant.The $119,000 grant will fund a research…
Taking our political research global
By virtue of our small population, Australia’s research community is far smaller than those in Europe and the US.So it’s important for our PhD students to take advantage of opportunities to travel…
Senate Economics Reference Committee invitation to PhD Candidate John Passant
The Senate Economics References Committee has invited John Passant to make a submission to their Inquiry into the development and operation of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) in regard to the…
AES 2013 data now available
The data from the Australian Election Study 2013 are now available for online analysis and download from the Australian Data Archive. Details on how to access the data are available from the AES2013…