Our research

Research projects

Explore a selection of Australian Research Council-funded and other research projects undertaken by academics at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.

  • The Rediscovery of Tragic Myth: Senecan tragedy in fourteenth century Europe

    In this Australian Research Council-funded research project, Dr K.O. Chong-Gossard (Classics, SHAPS) and Professor Bernard Muir (Professorial Fellow, English and Theatre Studies, SCC) investigate the medieval Latin commentaries by Nicholas Trevet on the ancient Roman tragedies of Seneca.

  • repliCATS: Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science

    The repliCATS project is among the first projects to address one of the most pressing controversies of modern science: scientific replicability. Led by Professor Fiona Fidler, the team consists of interdisciplinary researchers from the School of BioSciences, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and the Melbourne School of Engineering.

  • Gender Diversity Narratives in the Australian Context

    Do Australians think workplace gender diversity is important? In this project, Philosophy academics Professor Cordelia Fine and Dr Holly Lawford-Smith join an interdisciplinary team to explore reasons offered across a corpus of articles published in the Australian print media in the 25-year period between 1995-2020.

  • Confronting Historical Injustice in Indonesia: Memory and Transnational Human Rights Activism

    Using an innovative framework of the concept of ‘regions of memory’, Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History Kate McGregor is examining how human rights activists located within and outside Indonesia use memory for the purposes of achieving human rights outcomes.

  • Constructing Social Hierarchy

    In this ARC-funded project, a team of Philosophy academics aim to integrate recent developments in the philosophy of mind, language, emotion, and action to better understand how social hierarchies are created and maintained and how they can be disrupted.

  • Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation

    The DeathTech research team is a group of anthropologists, social scientists and human-computer interaction specialists based at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. They have been studying questions at the intersection of death, technology, and society for more than a decade.

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Research centres, hubs and units

Explore the fascinating and fundamental research conducted by our centres, hubs and units.

  • Asia-Pacific Twentieth Century Conservation Art Research Network (APTCCARN)

    The APTCCARN is a forum for the identification and discussion of research focusing on the conservation and scientific analysis of 20th century cultural materials in the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Classical Association of Victoria

    The Classical Association operates for the propagation and well-being of Classics and Ancient World Studies in the state of Victoria in Australia. The associations activities include a rich program of lectures given by distinguished academics from Australia and overseas.

  • Emporium: Cultures of Luxury and Consumption

    Emporium is a research hub, based at the University of Melbourne, dedicated to the long and rich histories of consumption, production, and consumer practices across time and space.

  • Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space

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

  • Medical Humanities Lab

    We examine human-medicine interactions and develop critical insights into the social, cultural, and ethical contexts of medicine, including the historical dimensions of medical practice and its connected institutions, and the lived experiences of health and illness.

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  • Areas of expertise

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  • Research environment

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  • Research strengths

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  • Research publications

    Discover a selection of major publications, including books and book chapters, by our academics.