2026 Short course: Analysing Time to Events
Continuing education
This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Quantitative Political Research
Workshop
3rd Annual APSA Workshop on Quantitative MethodsAs artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into research and empirical analysis, Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly emerged as powerful tools for political scientists. By enabling new approaches to data collection, text analysis…
ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event: Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths University)
Lecture/seminar
Please join us for this ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event on 'The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before and After GenAI' by Dr Scott Wark (Goldsmiths, University of London). The “Contentification” of the Web: Studying Digital Culture Before…
Persuasion and resistance: A survey experiment on messaging for and against One Nation
Lecture/seminar
Since the May 2025 federal election, One Nation's primary vote has risen sharply across published polling. If an election were held today, it would likely be the second-largest bloc in the House of Representatives. What drives this surge — and what, if anything, suppresses it — remains contested,…
2026 Short course: Comparing Populations
Continuing education
In this 2-day course, we'll learn skills that help demographers, policymakers, and health and social researchers measure differences between populations, and techniques that allow valid comparisons to be made across populations with differing compositions.Populations can be compared in many ways,…
Middle East Update No.4: US/ Israel War on Iran The Long Road Ahead (in-person + online)
Panel discussion
As the US/Israel War on Iran enters into its third month, the regional and international orders are being reconfigured, and the global economic costs keep mounting. The gathered Panellists/Middle East scholars will offer critical insights and updates on the stances of key states and discuss…
'My study is an archive of my mind': The making of Greg Dening
Seminar
Pacific historian and anthropologist Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008) was a man of many silences. Trawling through the large Dening archive in the State Library of Victoria, I am struck by the silences, the gaps and the stories left untold. In one of Greg’s many metaphors, that of ‘…