Oral history
Our country, our healer: exploring the traditional lithotherapeutics of the Aboriginal pharmacopoeia
Aboriginal people of the Greater Hunter region of New South Wales had access to two exceptional geological formations, which provided them with access to valuable mineral resources.
The politicised child in postcolonial community: a political ontology of childhood and memory examined through cases in Australia and Canada
The project investigates the meaning and use of childhood in recent political and social movements, such as the 'Stolen Generations' in Australia and sterilised children in Canada.
Oceanic encounters: exchange, desire, violence
This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the long
Negotiated Encounters: Native peoples and cross cultural engagements in the early Australian and New Zealand maritime enterprises 1790-1850.
"Negotiated Encounters" will provide new accounts and interpretations of Australian and New Zealand colonial history.
Archaeology and Natural History
This project aims to provide critical new information on the archaeology and natural history of one of the world’s largest unregulated desert river systems.
AusStage, Phase 5: Australian live performance and the world - global networks, national culture, aesthetic transmission
AusStage Phase 5: Australian live performance and the world – global networks, national culture and aesthetic transmission: AusStage stimulates new approaches to collaborative research and pioneers
Conviction Politics: A digital investigation of the convict routes of Australian democracy
Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to Australia on their place of exile, and the patterns
Stories from the past: the impact of industrialisation on the human microbiome
This project aims to explore the history and origin of ‘Industrial’ diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and autism.
The Other War: An investigation via documentary film into images of race and otherness in WW1 and their implications for Indigenous communities today
The Other War: An investigation via documentary film into images of race and otherness in WW1 and their implications for Indigenous communities today. .
Children born of war: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1944
The Project worked with more than forty Children Born of War in Australia, most born to Indigenous Australian mothers and African American fathers during the second world war, to document their exp