Research Groups and Networks

Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Asia Pacific Tropical Climate Conservation Art Research Network

A collaborative effort to explore the cultural maintenance and preservation of cultural material in Asia and the Pacific.

Asian Cultural Research Hub (ACRH)

ACRH fosters a local, national and international scholarly community for PhD students and Early Career Researchers working on Asia-related cultural studies research.

Australian Institute of Art History

Aims to advance research in the creation, use, and cultural meaning of art in all its forms from ancient rock art to the digital age.

Australian Welfare and Work Lab: Research on Employment Services

The Australian Welfare and Work Lab pioneers collaborative research with industry partners on new ways of commissioning and delivering employment services to help some of the most disadvantaged people in Australia into sustainable employment.

CAIDE Art, AI and Digital Ethics

Explores the contribution of art to enquiry about the ethics of artificial intelligence and digital innovation.

Child and Family Mediascape Research Group (CFMRG)

A collaboration between scholars from media studies and book publishing studies to address key challenges faced by children and their families in today’s rapidly changing media context.

Coded Aesthetics

Explores sense-making through human-machine entanglement.

Communicative Cities Research Network

The CCRN brings together scholars from around the world to foster critical research into the city as a distinctive site for communication.

Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies

Researches the impact and effects of the externalisation of refugee policies.

Critical Ethnography Lab

The Critical Ethnography Lab (CiEL) is an experimental and collaborative project that studies the future of ethnography to address issues of social significance.

Critical Fashion Studies

A research collective that brings together fashion scholars, practitioners, and industry members to advance research on sustainability, ethics and innovation.

Critical Research Association Melbourne

CRAM is an open network for people working across the various disciplines of critical studies today, based at the University of Melbourne.

Disability, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative

Centering the voices, experiences and expertise of people with disability across the life through research, training, engagement, and service activities

Emporium: Cultures of Luxury and Consumption

Exploring cultures of luxury and consumption.

Europe-Asia Security and Trade Network

Bringing together senior and junior researchers and think-tankers from three continents to analyse relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific.

Global Network on Justice. Conflict. Responsibility

Provides a public platform for the discussion and analysis of contemporary justice issues in Australia.

History, Memory and Decolonial Futures

The History, Memory and Decolonial Futures Research Collective advances and promotes multidisciplinary research on the social efforts to dismantle colonial and settler colonial power structures to create decolonial futures.

Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network

An interdisciplinary network, whose major objective is to play a leading role in the new global field of Human-Animal Studies (HAS) that has achieved international prominence in the past two decades.

Justice-Involved Young People Network

Building capacity within organisations working with and for justice-involved young people in Victoria

International Digital Policy Initiative

Focuses on the role of digital policy in the age of global interdependence.

Research Cluster in Asian Civil Society

Based in the Asia Institute.

Medicinal Psychedelics Research Network (MPRN)

Aims to facilitate engagement between Australian and international colleagues to consider research, policy and regulatory questions, as well as potential new opportunities for patient treatment.

Migration and Mobility Research Network (MMRN)

Brings together a group of interdisciplinary researchers to focus on issues of migration, mobility, diversity and multiculturalism.

Melbourne Political, Legal and Social Theory Network

A Melbourne-wide forum that brings together theorists based at multiple Melbourne universities, campuses, and departments, working across intersecting disciplinary research fields.

Narrative Network

A network for academics at the University of Melbourne interested in narrative research

National Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies

Aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the rich traditions and modern complexities of Islam.

PARADISEC

A digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.

Raising Digital Youth

An international research network that brings together scholars and experts to address key challenges that young people and their families are experiencing in the digital landscape.

Research Cluster in Gender, Environment and Migration

Based in the Asia Institute.

Research Cluster in Islam and Politics in Contemporary Asia and the Middle East

Based in the Asia Institute.

Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space

Consolidating the emerging strengths in Soviet and post-Soviet studies through research, training, and global engagement.

Australian Women's Register

Building knowledge and recognition of the social, cultural, historical and economic contribution made by Australian women.

Digital Studio

Leveraging digital technologies to transform research and teaching.

Find and Connect

Brings together historical resources relating to institutional 'care' in Australia.

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform

Specialist team enabling data-intensive and collaborative research.

Phonetics Laboratory

For phonetics teaching, speech science, and laboratory phonology research.

Visual Cultures Resource Centre

Holds one of the largest collections of art reproductions in the southern hemisphere.