Initiatives and Groups
Significant collaborative research endeavours hosted by the Faculty of Arts.
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Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative
Solutions-focused research and interventions to combat racism at both the interpersonal and structural levels.
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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.
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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.
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Asian Governance Transformations
How is governance in Asia changing? What is driving change and how is it being contested? What are the implications for human rights, democracy, social welfare, and foreign relations?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Coded Aesthetics
Explores sense-making through human-machine entanglement.
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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.
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Critical Ethnography Lab
The Critical Ethnography Lab (CiEL) studies the future of ethnography. We support socially impactful research and experiment with multiple ways of learning, knowing, and experiencing the world.
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Critical Fashion Studies
A research collective that brings together fashion scholars, practitioners, and industry members to advance research on sustainability, ethics and innovation.
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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.
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DeathTech
The team study questions at the intersection of death, technology, and society.
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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
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Emporium: Cultures of Luxury and Consumption
Exploring cultures of luxury and consumption.
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Enlightenment, Romanticism & Contemporary Culture
Re-envisions the transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism and its legacies in the present.
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Fighting Harmful Online Communication
The Fighting Harmful Online Communication HRI explores harms resulting from mistaken, misleading, exaggerated, polemic and deliberately false online communications.
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Future of Work Lab
Provides innovative understandings of the intersections of inequality, technology and policy to create more equitable work futures.
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Gender Equity Initiative
An initiative to harness cutting-edge research to empower individuals, for-profit organisations, and governments
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Global China Knowledge Network
The Global China Knowledge Network aims to be platform that enables the development, sharing and articulation of knowledge on China’s “Going Global” process.
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Global Korea Research Hub
The Global Korea Research Hub is about increasing stability, security, literacy and careers between Australia and South Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Global Network on Justice. Conflict. Responsibility
Provides a public platform for the discussion and analysis of contemporary justice issues in Australia.
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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.
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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.
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Initiative for Peacebuilding
Supporting effective engagement in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Indo-Pacific region.
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International Digital Policy Initiative
Focuses on the role of digital policy in the age of global interdependence.
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Justice-Involved Young People Network
Building capacity within organisations working with and for justice-involved young people in Victoria
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Language Dynamics in the Asia Pacific
This research cluster explores the diverse languages of the Asia-Pacific region – their structures, use in context, roles within society, and how they are taught and acquired.
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Melbourne Academic Games, Play, and Interactive Entertainment (MAGPIE)
The Melbourne Academic Games, Play and Interactive Entertainment (MAGPIE) initiative supports interdisciplinary research, teaching, leadership and industry engagement in the field of game studies, including game design, play processes, player communities, narrative design, and creative technology industry cultures.
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Medical Humanities Research Lab
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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.
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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.
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MetaMelb Research Initiative
Meta-researchers investigate scientific practice to help improve confidence in scientific claims as understood by practising scientists.
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Migration and Mobility Research Network (MMRN)
Brings together a group of interdisciplinary researchers to focus on issues of migration, mobility, diversity and multiculturalism.
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Myanmar Research Network
Connects researchers and students working on and interested in Myanmar.
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Narrative Network
A network for academics at the University of Melbourne interested in narrative research
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PARADISEC
A digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.
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Phonetics Laboratory
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PolicyLink
A ‘one-stop shop’ for policy research and expertise in the Faculty of Arts.
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Public policy and governance
The School’s public policy and governance research is focused on understanding how public policy is made and implemented, and how governance conditions at local, national, regional and international levels are changing.
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Research Cluster in Asian Civil Society
Based in the Asia Institute.
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Research Cluster in Gender, Environment and Migration
Based in the Asia Institute.
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Research Cluster in Islam and Politics in Contemporary Asia and the Middle East
Based in the Asia Institute.
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Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence
Established to ensure that forensic evidence involving language and speech is managed in the best interests of justice.
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Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space
Consolidating the emerging strengths in Soviet and post-Soviet studies through research, training, and global engagement.
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Research Unit for Indigenous Language
Working with Indigenous communities to support their efforts to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage.
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Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication
Undertakes research and engagement activities on multilingualism and cross-cultural communication.
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Research Unit in Public Cultures
Examining transformations in public culture produced by new intersections of knowledge, media, space and mobility.
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Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative
Fosters our understanding of how the future of work is changing.