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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

To be named a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is a wonderful achievement and highlights a distinguished research career.

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SAA Archaeologist Inducted in British Academy

An academic from The Australian National University (ANU), who left school at 15 to work in a factory and later won a university scholarship, has been inducted into the British Academy – the United Kingdom’s national body for the humanities and social sciences.

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Museums in Focus

Routledge Museums In Focus is a short-format book series that challenges authors and readers to experiment with, innovate, and provoke museums and the frameworks through which we view them. Series editor is Associate Professor Kylie Message.

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WHY STUDY ARCHAEOLOGY ?

Dr Dougald O'Reilly talks about the vocation of Archaeology.

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New ANU journal of Biological Anthropology for UG Students

Students of biological anthropology at ANU will soon have the opportunity to be published in an academic journal designed specifically for them.

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The School of Archaeology and Anthropology combines five streams of social research and teaching: anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and the interdisciplinary fields of development studies and heritage and museum studies. Collectively we are engaged with understanding past and present human experience in diverse and transforming social contexts.

Our school offers an innovative range of programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with particular strengths in archaeological science, biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, Australian Indigenous studies, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, applied and participatory development, and heritage studies.

ANU is the most research-intensive university in Australia and our staff are energetic teachers as well as active researchers working on projects across remote and metropolitan Australia, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, South America and India.

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