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June 2008 John Passmore Lecture 2008 Larry S. Temkin gave the John Passmore Lecture 2008, 'Illuminating Egalitarianism' on 11 June 2008. Many people are suspicious of egalitarians and the implications of their view. They believe that egalitarians are committed to the 'Levelling Down Objection', which supposedly entails that it would be better to take out the eyes of the sighted, if this were the only way of promoting equality between the sighted and the blind. Read more  June 2008 Inaugural Director of the National Centre for Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography Professor Melanie Nolan, formerly Head of the Department of History at Victoria University, Wellington, takes up her position as Inaugural Director of the National Centre for Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences today. Read more  May 2008 Book prize The NSW Government announced that Tom Griffiths has won the Douglas Stewart prize for non-fiction (AUS$40,000) for his book Slicing the Silence. http://rsss.anu.edu.au/slicing.php  May 2008 Economics scholarship Last week at the CBE Annual Prizes and Scholarships function on 8th May, the first RG Gregory Scholarship for Applied Economics was announced by the CBE Dean Professor Keith Houghton. The winner is Ms Kelly Neill, who is an Honours student in the School of Economics. The goal of the prize is to enable a student to conduct research at the honours level in the tradition of applied economics that has long been a focus of the RSSS Economics Program. This prize is donated by the Economics Program of RSSS, currently headed by Professor Alison Booth, who attended the awards ceremony. Professor Bob Gregory is an Emeritus Professor at RSSS and is actively involved in research across a variety of areas. His profile can be viewed here.  May 2008 ANZSOG monograph Australia Under Construction Nation-building past, present and future edited by John Butcher The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future. From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation', the nation-building narrative has resonated with Australians. The very idea of nation-building has both excited the popular imagination about what we might achieve as a society and a nation, and has occasioned despair about missed opportunities. The eleven authors contributing to this monograph reflect on these, and other themes from a variety of perspectives. They challenge our understanding of the term 'nation-building', reflect on its contemporary relevance as a framework for public policy and even re-appraise the contribution of past 'iconic' nation-building endeavours. To this subject the authors bring intelligence, wit and a healthy distain for sacred cows. A stimulating read for anyone interested in the history, challenges and prospects of nation-building in Australia. http://epress.anu.edu.au/auc_citation.html  April 2008 2020 Summit Options for Indigenous Futures Theme I went along to the Summit wondering how I could ever convince a group focussed on the year 2020 to think about the past. ÊAlthough all about History, Prime Minister Rudd had pitched the Apology to the stolen generations as an 'historic' coming to terms with history, that would now permit his government and the nation to simply move forward and forget using the reverse gear. The Indigenous stream, in which I participated, also had to tackle grave and urgent issues like early mortality, wrecked childhoods, poor employment and education profiles, alcohol and drug problems. More  April 2008 ANU Poll The ANU poll, spearheaded by Ian McAllister, and launched at Parliament House last week is quarterly survey of Australian public opinion. The topic of each survey is an issue of national importance. The ANU Poll differs from other opinion polls by placing public opinion in a broad policy context, and by benchmarking Australia against international opinion. By drawing on the wide range of academic public opinion polls conducted at ANU since the 1960s, the ANU Poll is also able to follow trends in opinions over many decades. http://www.anu.edu.au/anupoll/  April 2008 2020 Summit report Andrew Leigh, Economics Program, RSSS attended the 2020 Summit. This extract is from an article published in the Australian Financial Review. Some Nuggets in the Dross , Australian Financial Review, 22 April 2008 Was it the Bold and the Beautiful, or the Young and the Restless? Big Brother, or the New Inventors? By any measure, the weekend's 2020 summit was an unusual event. Whether it was Philip Adams embracing Barry Jones, Hugh Jackman singing a duet with Ted Wilkes, or glimpses of Cate ('I did but see her passing by') Blanchett, there always seemed to be something to surprise. And by Sunday afternoon, even the more sceptical summiteers seemed happy to play Tenzing Norgay to Rudd's Edmund Hillary. More  April 2008 2008 Federation Fellow The ARC has released the results for the 2008 Federation Fellowship. Professor John Dryzek Political Science RSSS is amongst the winning researchers. Only 14 Fellowships were awarded (instead of the standard 25), two successful candidates came from the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences assessment panel. The Biographies of successful candidates in the 2008 round can be found here: http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/FedFellows_bios08.pdf The College of Arts and Social Sciences submitted 4 applications in this round.  April 2008 Women in Economics With the recent appointment of Professor Meng Xin to the Economics Program of the Research School of Social Sciences, the program now has 3 female full professors out of a total of seven full professors. The percentage female, at 43%, is thus substantially higher than in any other economics department in the country. Indeed, some large economics departments - including in the Go8 universities - have no female professors. This is a particularly startling statistic when you consider that the proportion of PhD students who are female in the US and in Europe is around 30% and has been for some time (see CSWEP for the US and the Royal Economic Society biennial reports). As a benchmark comparison, the percentage female full professors in the top 10 PhD-granting departments in the US is 8%. Read more  April 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship awarded Alison Booth, Head of Economics Program is delighted to report that Adjunct Professor Bobbi Wolfe has just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (one of only two given in economics this year). This is really wonderful news and warm congratulations to Bobbi. The list of award winners across a range of disciplines. (pdf)  April 2008 ARC International Linkage Grant : Crafting Authoritarian Politics The collapse of communism in Russia in 1990 brought much optimism about the triumph of democracy. The experience since 1990 has not lived up to that early optimism, and Russia remains an essentially authoritarian state. This project, jointly funded by the ARC and the British ESRC, examines how Russia has accommodated these authoritarian themes within a representative democracy, and more generally, seeks to shed new light on the process of democratization in postcommunist societies. Russia is the 8th largest country in the world by population and the 11th largest economy based on GDP; it also remains nuclear-armed. Understanding the dynamics of democratization in Russia has implications for political stability across a large section of the world which is currently in transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The project uses the wealth of public opinion surveys conducted since 1990 to understand the dynamics of democratization in Russia to explain why democracy has not taken root. Ian McAllister and Stephen White have collaborated extensively for more than 10 years and have coauthored one book and around 50 journal articles and book chapters on postcommunist politics.  April 2008 Attending the 2020 Ideas Summit Five academic staff from RSSS will be attending the 2020 Ideas Summit to be held in April 2008. More  March 2008 Senior Economics Program Appointments The Economics Program at RSSS has recently made four important new senior appointments. This gang of four comprises Professors Richard Cornes, Tim Hatton and Meng Xin, and Associate Professor Bob Breunig. The research interests of the four range from economic theory to labour economics, the economics of migration, microeconometrics and development economics. More  March 2008 Elite PhD Scholarship to History Postgraduate Student Jacqui Donegan has been offered and has accepted the ANU Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Doctoral Study. This Scholarship is awarded to applicants who, on academic merit, were ranked first in the Order of Merit for Scholarship in the College in which they will be enrolled to undertake doctoral study. Ms Donegan will be working with Professor Desley Deacon in the History Program, RSSS. Her thesis topic is "Kangaroo: From Antipodean Oddity to National Icon". She has First Class Honours in Communication & History from The University of Queensland, for which she won the University Medal and the History Research Prize in 2001. She was History Intern and Public Affairs Officer at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC from 2000 to 2001. Ms Donegan has twenty years' experience in the communication industry throughout Australia, both print and electronic media and media relations. In 2003 she was Communication Consultant for the Southern Gulf Catchments, National Heritage Trust, Mount Isa and most recently was Regional Program Manager, ABC North West Queensland, Mount Isa . She will undertake her doctoral studies part-time while living in Townsville.  February 2008 How Has School Productivity Changed in Australia? LITERACY AND NUMERACY PERFORMANCE "STUCK IN THE ’60s" The literacy and numeracy performance of Australian school children is no better than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, according to new research from The Australian National University. The research, by ANU economists Dr Andrew Leigh and Dr Chris Ryan, tracked long-run changes in test scores by comparing the performance of successive cohorts of school children on the same tests. "Over the past three to four decades, neither literacy nor numeracy have improved, and may even have declined slightly", said Dr Ryan. A copy of the media release is here, and you can link to the actual study at http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/pdf/SchoolProductivity.pdf  February 2008 Australia Day Honours Diane Langmore Head of ADB was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours. The citation reads: `for service in recording the history of the social sciences and humanities as General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography'.    February 2008 Goodin gives Dewey Lecture RSSS philosopher Robert Goodin posed a simple question in his Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School: 'How can we know what the law requires of us?' With 364 volumes of U.S. legal code piled atop state and municipal laws, 'ignorance of the law is inevitable', if not formally excusable. Read more  December 2007 New Volume of Australian Dictionary of Biography A new volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) was launched in Melbourne this month by the Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Krester, AC. Read more  December 2007 AUSTRALIAN VOTERS BECOMING MORE VOLATILE: STUDY Australian voters are becoming more volatile, with a diminishing number rusted on to any particular party, according to the Australian Election Study (AES) released today that examines long-term changes in the political opinions of the public. Read more  November 2007 Managing Diversity Managing Diversity Practices of Citizenship, edited by Nicholas Brown and Linda Cardinal Published in the University of Ottawa Press’ Governance series, this collection arises from a workshop held at University College Dublin (where Nicholas Brown was professor of Australian history) and reflects on current debates over citizenship and diversity in Australia, Ireland and Canada. Read more  November 2007 Baby bonus study Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing Joshua S. Gans Melbourne Business School University of Melbourne and Andrew Leigh Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University A study on the impact that the sudden introduction of the $3000 Baby Bonus had on births. http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1687  November 2007 RESULTS OF RESEARCH QUALITY FRAMEWORK (RQF) EXERCISE In May 2004 the Prime Minister announced that the Australian Government would establish Quality and Accessibility Frameworks for Publicly Funded Research as part of the Backing Australia’s Ability - Building our Future through Science and Innovation Read more  October 2007 Lifetime achievement award JDB Miller was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference in Melbourne for his contribution to Political Science within Australia. He is here with the Director, Rod Rhodes.  October 2007 Podcast available On Tuesday October 9, Paul 't Hart (RSSS), Bryan Rodgers (NCEPH) and Maggie Brady (CAEPR) offered their perspectives on the Howard Government's current intervention in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Those who would like to know more, including hearing podcasts of the three papers, can go to http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/events07.php#spec http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/new.php  October 2007 Travel Grant Claire Donovan has been awarded funding under the Vice-Chancellor's Travel Grant Scheme to take up visiting fellowships in leading science, technology and society (STS) programmes in the USA, UK and Asia-Pacific to write the regional chapters for her first book 'The Governance of Social Science: New Foundations of a Science for Society' (Edward Elgar Publishing).  From November 2007 to March 2008 she will be a visiting fellow at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; SPRU, University of Sussex, and the STS Cluster at the National University of Singapore.  October 2007 Claus Offe Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa At ANU's 20 December degree ceremony, distinguished social theorist Claus Offe will be awarded a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, in recognition of 'his distinguished creative contributions in the service of society'. Read more  October 2007 Politics Expert to Head ANU Social Science Research David Marsh has accepted the position of Director of RSSS and will be taking up the appointment in April of 2008. The Australian National University will welcome back British political scientist Professor David Marsh, a former visiting research fellow who returns to the University as Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS). Read more  October 2007 Australian Historical Association Professor Desley Deacon, ASSA, presiding at the annual meetings of the Australian Historical Association in Armidale 23-26 September 2007. Among the staff and postgraduate students presenting papers were Tom Griffiths, Ann McGrath, Nicholas Brown, Travis Cutler, Tiffany Shellam, and Emily O'Gorman.  September 2007 Grants success An ARC Linkage Grant has been awarded to John Dryzek and Simon Niemeyer, Political Science Discipline, RSSS, (with Lyn Carson and Ian Marsh from Sydney, Janette Hartz-Karp from Murdoch) in partnership with the New Democracy Foundation to run an Australian Citizens' Parliament. Nicholas Brown (pictured right), History Program and ADB, has won an ARC Discovery Grant for his project: Ten years is enough: the life and afterlife of Rick Farley Read more  September 2007 Book success Tom Griffiths' book, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South and Harvard, 2007) has this week been short-listed for two national book awards: The Age Book of the Year Award (Non-Fiction) and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award (Non-Fiction). Tom will be giving the Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 4 October and will deliver the Address at the NSW Premier's History Awards Dinner at Government House, Sydney, on 9 October. Read more  August 2007 ANZSOG series success continues The ANZSOG monograph series, published by ANU E Press, has enjoyed great success since publication of the first titles in October 2006. There have been over 58,000 downloads in the ANZSOG ANU e-press series since November last year - this is a huge number of electronic downloads that show the ANZSOG series is hitting a mark with practitioners and academics. Read more  July 2007 Report on Mobile Phones and Work/Life Balance Judy Wajcman launched the first report of an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant partnered with the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) (the peak industry body for the mobile telecommunications industry) at the AMTA annual conference in Sydney on 16 July. The presentation of the report "The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Balance" attracted a great deal of media attention.  July 2007 ANZSOG series success The ANZSOG monograph series, published by ANU E Press, has enjoyed great success since publication of the first titles in October 2006. From January to June 2007, over 16,000 full versions of the seven titles so far published were downloaded, along with almost 20,000 individual chapters from the various titles. In addition, Electronic Engagement, by Dr Peter Chen, has come in at number nine among the Top 10 eBooks downloaded from January to June 2007 (7,757 downloads, comprised of 5,673 complete book, 2,084 individual chapters). This is a sign of great things to come for the ANZSOG series, especially as we have a number of significant forthcoming manuscripts coming out in the latter half of the year. ANZSOG monograph series  July 2007 Breaking Through to Education In a major initiative The Social Policy Evaluation Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), will collaborate with the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), and provide analytical services and reports to the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Technology for their Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). Read more  June 2007 Appointment to working group on Australian history Dr Nicholas Brown has been appointed to a four person working group to advise the Federal Government on a national history curriculum for schools. This appointment was announced by the Minister for Education, Science and Training on 25 June: the other members of the group are Geoffrey Blainey, Gerard Henderson and Jennifer Lawless. Link to DEST media release  June 2007 Professor Barry Hindess Barry Hindess from the Political Science Program was farewelled by friends and colleagues at a Reception in the Shine Dome last Tuesday evening after 20 years as a member of RSSS. He will be continuing writing so is not retiring from academe at this stage.  June 2007 Herbert A. Simon Award Professor Paul 't Hart has won the 2007 Herbert A. Simon Award from the American Political Science Association for Distinguished Contribution to the field of Public Administration. It is for the book The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure, co-authored with Arjen Boin (Leiden University), Eric Stern and Bengt Sundelius (both Uppsala University), published by Cambridge University Press. The Award will be presented in August during the American Political Science Assocation's 2007 conference in Chicago.  June 2007 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow Ian McAllister (Political Science Program) has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters (see RSSS News). The RSE was established in 1783 by Royal Charter for 'the advancement of learning and useful knowledge'. The award was made for his contribution to comparative politics, including British and Northern Ireland politics, and democratization in postcommunist Europe. The picture shows Ian McAllister receiving the award from Sir Michael Atiyah, RSE President, at a ceremony in Edinburgh in May. Photo  June 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours Historian Professor Ann McGrath has received an Order of Australia in the General Division (OAM) for her work in Indigenous history as a teacher, researcher and author. Based in the history program Professor McGrath’s work has explored such issues as the Stolen Generation and Aboriginal deaths in custody.  May 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival lecture Large crowds gathered to see the RSSS’ Dr Lindy Edwards and the Sydney Morning Herald’s Ross Gittins talk economics at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Dr Edwards was speaking about how economic expert knowledge is used to shut down political debate in Australia. Read more»  May 2007 Tom Griffiths and the International Polar Year The International Polar Year (2007-08) has been launched worldwide and RSSS is making a major contribution to this cooperative global research effort. Tom Griffiths' history of Antarctica is being published in May 2007 in both Australia (UNSW Press) and overseas (Harvard University Press). Entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica, the book is a history of international endeavour on the continent of ice over more than a hundred years. It represents a significant contribution from the social sciences to this international scholarly event. Read more»  May 2007 Vote Yes for Aborigines A documentary on the fight for Aboriginal citizenship rights, 40 years later by Frances Peters-Little shown on SBS TV Sunday 27 May at 8.30 pm.  May 2007 Measuring Teacher Effectiveness Andrew Leigh has a new paper entitled 'Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores'. The first 'value-added' study to be conducted outside the United States. See his website at http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1465 for links to articles in the Australian media about the paper.  May 2007 Allan Martin Week lecture Last week was the History Program's 'Allan Martin Week'. Each year, the Program hosts a series of events to commemorate our late colleague Allan Martin. 'Allan Martin Week' began on Tuesday 15 at 6pm with a lecture by Professor Ken Inglis on 'Speechmaking in Australian History'. (The Lecture will be published soon as a booklet, and as an audio recording on the History Program website.) Read more»  May 2007 Launch of the thirtieth edition of the journal Aboriginal History On May 3 2007, the thirtieth edition of the journal Aboriginal History was launched by the Director of RSSS, Rod Rhodes. Jennifer Martiniello of the ACT Indigenous Writers group read one of her poems, and Peter Radoll, the new Head of the Jabal Centre introduced the speakers. Read more»  March 2007 Philosophy Recruiting the best - again The Philosophy Program, RSSS is delighted to announce that Jonathan Schaffer, currently at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will join the School in July as Professor of Philosophy. Jonathan works on many things but has made seminal contributions to philosophical theories of knowledge and causation. He is widely thought of as one of the best and most creative young philosophers operating today. His appointment enhances the ANU's multidisciplinary research and supervisory strength in the broad area of public and private reasoning, where his expertise in causal and counterfactual reasoning, and the role of inquiry in knowledge, complements our existing capacities in the areas of value theory, probability, decision theory, and philosophy of mind.  March 2007 German Prize for Frank Castles Frank Castles, the adjunct professor in residence in the Political Science Programme, has been awarded the Fritz Thyssen Foundation prize for the best journal article published in a German social science journal in 2005. Read more»  March 2007 ACIH's Yale Collaboration The Australian Centre for Indigenous History has an active partnership with Yale University, via the Howard R Lamar Centre for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. In October 2006, the Lamar Centre hosted the US launch of the collaborative film venture, ‘A Frontier Conversation’, followed by a dinner at their historic Mory’s restaurant http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-10-10-03.all.html Read more»  March 2007 Philosophy Graduate President of Indiana University Michael McRobbie, a PhD and former staff member of RSSS Philosophy, has been elected President of Indiana University. After taking his PhD in 1980, McRobbie became a Research Fellow rising to Professor at ANU, first in RSSS Philosophy, then as part of its Automated Reasoning Project and finally as CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems in the new Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. He moved to Indiana University in 1997, as Vice President for Information Technology, rising to Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs before being elected President. The announcement of his appointment and the news conference following can be seen at: http://www.indiana.edu/~newpres/video.shtml  March 2007 Working party The School has appointed a working party, with Bob Gregory as its chair, to review the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Terms of reference To investigate the priorities, current staffing level and funding of the ADB and advise on future strategy, staffing and sources of finance. Membership Bob Gregory (Economics, chair); Tom Griffith (History); Linda Botterill (Political Science); Daniel Stoljar (Philosophy); Anne Curthoys (CASS) The working party will report within three months. All interested parties are invited to submit written evidence. It should be sent to: Director.RSSS@anu.edu.au  March 2007 First Graduate Director I am delighted to announce that Tom Griffiths from History will become the School’s first Graduate Director. It is an important and challenging job. The School needs not only to increase the number of postgraduate students but also to develop taught masters’ degrees across the campus and improve its first-year training for PhD students. The School has also created a Graduate Committee and we are seeking both graduate convenors from each Program and student representatives. Read more»  March 2007 New Director for RSSS Rod Rhodes is the new Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He succeeds Professor Frank Jackson. He is also Distinguished Professor of Political Science in RSSS and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle (UK). You can find the usual career résumé on his web page at http://polsc.anu.edu.au/staff/rhodes/. Such listings of appointments and publications are unreadable. Instead, Rod has written the following short, informal biography. Read more»  February 2007 All Souls Visiting Fellowship Professor Judy Wajcman has recently been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, for the Michaelmas term (September-December) 2007.. Read more»  December 2006 ADB Cultural Award The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online has won the Manning Clark House National Cultural Award (Group Category) for 2006 for its outstanding contribution to the quality of Australian cultural life. Read more»  December 2006 RSSS leads the way in International Collaborations in the Social Sciences Dr Andrew Leigh has won one of four grants awarded in the inaugural round of the ARC Linkage International Social Sciences Collaboration. The scheme aims to strengthen the international research experience for early career researchers and to generate opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to link into leading-edge international research networks. Dr Leigh secured $172,000 of research funds for the ANU, and will complete a project on the impact of crime on the mental wellbeing of communities with his colleagues from the University College London. Read more»  November 2006 ANU on top, philosophically speaking The Philosophy Program in the Research School of Social Sciences has been voted the best of its kind in Australia, and took out fifteenth place among international philosophy departments in the English-speaking world. The 2006-2008 Philosophical Gourmet rankings are co-ordinated at the University of Texas, Austin, and invite philosophers to review their peers around the world. In Australia, ANU was followed by the University of Sydney at 41, then the University of Melbourne at 45. ANU was also ranked first in the previous version of the report. The Philosophical Gourmet Report  November 2006 Putting ANU's Stamp on Political Science Worldwide The first five volumes of the Oxford Handbooks of Political Science were launched on Friday 3 November 2006 by Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Read more»  November 2006 Australian Dictionary of Biography goes online The first five volumes of the Oxford Handbooks of Political Science were launched on Friday 3 November 2006 by Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Read more»  October 2006 Second Federation Fellowship for Criminologist Professor John Braithwaite has received an Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship, Australia’s most valuable publicly funded research fellowships. He will receive more than $1.5 million from the ARC during the next five years. Read more»  September 2006 ARC Success in the Linkage International Scheme for RSSS Dr Grit Laudel and Dr Jochen Gläser, in partnership with Professor Uwe Schimank and Dr Stefan Lange from the Fern Universität in Hargen, Germany, have received funding for their project entitled "The differential impact of performance based and size based funding of university research in Australia and Germany". Read more» N E W S  I T E M S [2006] [2005] [2004] In Memoriam John Braithwaite joint winner with Friedrich Lösel of the 2006 Stockholm Prize in Criminology Australia Day Honour for Director Australian Demographer to lead world body Launching into a whole new world of DISCOVERY Vice-Chancellor's Award for Career Achievement RegNet Researchers: Authorise generic avian flu drugs ARC e-Research Success The New Durkheim ARC Linkage Project success New Federation Fellow Appointment to the Council of the American Law Institute Philosophy Gourmet Ranking Lakatos Award ARC success J G Crawford Prize Federation Fellow Historian on ice Major ARC Linkage Success RSSS Welcomes new students New Director for RSSS