The Hub hosts a wide range of projects, from political science and demography to literary criticism and history. Many of these are long-standing projects, inherited from previous ANU digital initiatives. We’re interested in broadening the portfolio of projects we’re working on. Please contact us with your ideas.
ARDC HDRH Research Software Engineering Capacity Enhancement Project (RSE-CEP)
The Research Software Engineering Capacity Enhancement Project (RSE-CEP) is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/x5f6-mw53). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Read more
ARDC Social Science Research Infrastructure Network (SSRIN)
Social Science Research Infrastructure Network is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/8d3z-sq52). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Read more
Life Expectancy Monitor
The life expectancy monitoring tool allows the user to selected mortality changes over the entire lifespan or at specific ages, as well as for overall mortality or for specific causes of death. For example, how would life expectancy look if cardiovascular mortality were to be reduced by 50%? Or how would life expectancy look if infant mortality was eliminated? Read more
Public Interest Advocacy
The project aims to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of public interest advocacy, via the media, in elevating responsiveness of elected political elites. The project expects to generate new knowledge about how both the advocacy and media agendas are set, examine the way elected elites access and ingest the news media, and the conditions under which advocacy group access to the news changes political priorities. Read more
AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA)
AIINFRA is a two-year project, led by James Smithies and Glen Berman at the HASS Digital Research Hub at the Australian National University. The project team includes representatives from the Australian Parliamentary Library, the National Library of Australia, the Aotearoa / New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, the UK National Archives, the UK History of Parliament project, and the ANU Library, with academic input from King’s College London and expert guidance on issues of Māori data sovereignty and AI from Taiuru & Associates Ltd in Aotearoa. Read more
Early Modern Women Research Network
The Early Modern Women Research Network (EMWRN) is an Australian-based network of scholars which aims to bring the often institutionally isolated scholars of early modern women's writing into dialogue with others in the field, both within Australia and internationally. EMWRN regularly meets at major conferences, sponsoring panels and symposia, often in conjunction with other early modern networks. Read more
Marking Country - Mapping Deep Histories
The Marking Country website visualises Australia's deep history by presenting a series of interactive digital stories, histories, and maps, contributed by Indigenous communities in collaboration with the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University. Read more
Singing the News Digital Archive
Singing the News: Ballads as News Media in Europe and Australia, 1550-1920. Focusing on the particular image of national identity proposed by the ballads, the project will extend this exploration of a European tradition to 19th-century Australian newspapers, revealing how they commissioned songs to consciously invent a romanticised image of the fledgling colony. Read more
The Australian Common Reader
Whether of fiction or non-fiction, literary or mass market, Australian or from overseas, through reading Australians of all ages and walks of life have encountered ways of seeing the world and their place in it. The Australian Common Reader is a database of library loan records from across the country. Through it, you can explore the reading habits of Australians since the nineteenth century. Read more
Talking About Stones
The project began with a brief to investigate the Aboriginal material culture existing in the collections of small local museums in the Riverina district of N.S.W. A survey of some thirty museums revealed that they all had collections of stone artefacts donated by local farmers who had found them while working on their properties. The project developed shape from this point, seeking to probe the little-explored patterns of engagement between settlers and Indigenous people represented by these collections. Read more
The Baguia Collection
The website showcases a database that contains records for the Baguia Collection objects acquired and photographs taken by Swiss ethnographer Dr Alfred Bühler in 1935, from Baguia, Portuguese Timor (now Timor-Leste). It also includes film footage taken by his expedition companion, Dr Wilhelm L. Meyer. The Baguia Collection is part of the permanent collection of the Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland. Read more