Welcome to the Asia Research Centre
The Asia Research Centre is celebrating twenty years as an international leader in the study of East and Southeast Asia, undertaking fundamental interdisciplinary and disciplinary research into a wide range of social, political and economic dynamics within the region.
Thematic to Centre research is the analysis of conflicts over: political and economic regimes; environmental resources; ethnic, religious and national identities; cultural and media systems; and the security of states, communities and individuals. Analysis spans national, sub-national, regional and international levels. The Centre’s work addresses the National Research Priority of the Australian Research Council Understanding Our Region and the World.
The Centre’s objectives are to: produce high quality academic research publications for international and domestic audiences; foster the development of high quality research graduates; and to constructively contribute to public policy debate and public understanding on issues concerning contemporary Asia.
Through a nationally competitive process, the Asia Research Centre was established as a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Council in 1991 to provide analysis of social, political and economic change in contemporary East and Southeast Asia. Since the natural conclusion of the Special Research Centre funding in 1999, Murdoch University has continued to support the Centre.
The Asia Research Centre is located in the School of Social Sciences and
Humanities and affiliated with the Institute for Sustainable Societies,
Education and Politics at Murdoch University. The Centre encompasses researchers
from across Murdoch University and regularly engages in collaboration
with researchers from other universities around the world.
Latest News from the ARC
The Asia Research Centre will be hosting the fourth workshop of the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) on 2-3 February 2012. The workshop brings together leading political economists from around Australia, as well as early career researchers and PhD candidates, to discuss important contemporary issues, such as the global economic and political crisis, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, environmental politics and climate change, and Australia’s so-called ‘two-speed’ economy. Admission is free, all are welcome. For more information contact Shahar Hameiri.
The workshop’s program is available here for download.
Congratulations to Vanessa Jaiteh of the Asia Research Centre on her success in winning a Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Outgoing Postgraduate Award.The Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Outgoing Postgraduate Award provides financial support for Australian postgraduate students to undertake study or research in Asia towards their Australian postgraduate qualification. read more about Vanessa’s project here
Congratulations also to Carol Soon, from the National University of Singapore, who has been awarded an Endeavour Research Fellowship, and will join us at the Asia Research Centre in June.
The dimensions of the Indian Ocean World (IOW) past: sources and opportunities for interdisciplinary work in IOW history, 9th -19th centuries Conference. The Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle, 12-14 November 2012.
The latest Annual Report of the Asia Research Centre has recently been published and is now available as a pdf to download. if you would prefer a hard copy, please contact the Centre at t.dent@murdoch.edu.au
