AGC News 4 April - 17 April 2008

  Table of Contents

• Senator Kim Carr - Media release and Speech - ARC Fellowships to become more International
• Collective Biography Conference
• Fulbright Scholarships
• Supervisor Workshop
• Postgraduate Scholarships Currently Available

Senator Kim Carr - Media Release and Speech - ARC Fellowships to become more international

The ANU occupies a unique position in the Australian university system. It is our one national university. It has a distinguished record of public service, including service to parliament, providing timely information and expert advice on countless aspects of domestic and international policy. And, consistent with the purposes for which it was first established, it has a powerful focus on research. In fact, around 90 per cent of ANU’s budget is spent on research activity.

Introducing the ANU Bill in 1946, J. J. Dedman described the Chifley government’s vision of an institution that would “bring credit to Australia, advance the cause of learning and research in general, and take its rightful place among the great universities of the world”. That vision has been handsomely realised.

ANU finished sixteenth in the Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings and fifty-seventh in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities last year.

It was the only Australian institution to make the top twenty of the Times rankings and one of only two in the top 100 of the Shanghai rankings. The other one was the University of Melbourne which as the Vice-Chancellor Ian Chubb modestly pointed out, finished a fair way behind the ANU.

In an ever-changing world, however, no university can afford to rest on its laurels – not even a university as fine as the ANU.

We must all be ready to renew ourselves in response to emerging challenges and opportunities. We must all be ready to innovate.

Download copy of entire Speech here: Senator Kim Carr Speech

Collective Biography Conference

8-10 September 2008
Convened by
Jane Shaw, Paul Pickering

Call for Papers

This will be a multi-disciplinary conference, covering any aspect of collective or group life writing. Paper proposals on any aspect of this theme, such as networks; families; artistic, political or academic groups; communities; institutional history and prosopography, are welcomed. Papers may be on specific topics or people, or may be reflections on aspects of methodology.

The conference will culminate in the Seymour Lecture on Biography given by Richard Holmes, and a conference dinner.

Please send a title and 500 - word abstract to both paul.pickering@anu.edu.au and jane.shaw@new.ox.ac.uk by 25th April 2008.

For registration and accommodation enquiries: email: leena.messina@anu.edu.au or http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/

Fulbright Scholarships

For Postgraduate study and research in the United States
Valued up to $A40,000

A Guideline for Australian PhD Supervisors
Fulbright Scholarships can provide the opportunity for Australian citizens to undertake 8-12 months research in the United States related to their Australian PhD.

Australian PhD students can now stop the clock on their Australian Postgraduate Scholarship (APA, APIA or university based) to undertake international research through another scholarship, such as Fulbright.

Approximately 75- 80% of Fulbright Postgraduate Scholars are now undertaking research towards to their Australian PhD.

The benefits to the Fulbright Scholars and their Australian university include:

• the opportunity to work and build collaborations with leading researchers at some of the top U.S. universities;
• an international marker on their PhD and international joint publications, as a result of the experience; and
• the basis for long term ongoing international research collaborations and exchange between their U.S. host and Australian university.

It provides easy and cost effective access to U.S. research institutions – Scholars are welcomed as Visiting Research Fellows. Fulbright Scholars undertaking research do not

• need to sit U.S. university entrance exams;
• apply for admission to the U.S. university;
• or pay U.S. university tuition fees.

Scholars arrange affiliation through personal approaches to U.S. researchers, or links their supervisors or universities have with U.S. universities. This also provides the opportunity for Australian universities and research groups to establish or enhance their collaborative links in the United States.

There are a range of selection criteria for Fulbright Scholarships, of which academic merit is but one. While first class honours is common amongst scholars, Fulbrights have also been granted to second class honours applicants.

Applications for the 2009 Fulbright Scholarships close 31 August 2008. Scholars can commence their Fulbright program any time between 1 July 2009 and the 30 June 2010.

See http://www.fulbright.com.au for more information, application forms and stories of Fulbright Scholar’s experiences.

Supervisor Workshop - Research Supervision in Intercultural Contexts

Tuesday 6th May, 9.30am - 1.00pm
AGC Seminar Room,Level 6, 115 Grenfell Street

This workshop asks supervisors to respond to the key communication and pedagogical challenges presented in the supervision of students from differing linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Various policies, resources and strategies will be presented, and tested against case studies.

All welcome.

To register: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/rep/staff/enrolment.html

For more information:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/rep/staff/timetable.html
or contact Ian Green x36035

Postgraduate Scholarships Currently Available

To view a list of currently available postgraduate scholarships go to: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/post grad/pgcurrent.html