Postgraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Faculty research strengths

Faculty research strengths

The faculty has identified the following established research strengths which provide the basis for PhD and research masters, and coursework masters, in a range of disciplines.

· Ancient, medieval and renaissance studies
· Applied ethics and moral philosophy
· Australian literary and historical studies
· Australian tourism and heritage
· Biography
· Child abuse, family violence and the state
· Critical theory
· Cross-cultural, indigenous and multicultural studies
· Culture and belief
· Environmental change and variability in Pacific Asia
· Gender studies
· Global politics and international relations
· Language in society
· Logic and metaphysics
· Modern European studies
· Social, political and cultural change in the Asia-Pacific region
· Socio-cultural impact of ecological and environmental change
· Textual and translation studies
· Theatre, music, museum and cinema studies
· Urban and regional studies

The following developing research strengths have also been identified:

· Communication
· Media studies and new technologies
· Work and social policy
· Australian Governance and Public Policy