Workshops on safety and wellbeing of Pacific workers in Australia

Researchers from DPA held two workshops with stakeholders to discuss the preliminary findings of research on the safety and wellbeing experiences of men and...

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Workshop participants at Pasifika House, Brisbane, 9 December 2022. Photo- DPA

Bell School prize for ‘Partnership, Impact and Engagement’ awarded to the research project on 'Family Protection Orders'

The research project on 'The use and efficacy of family protection orders in PNG' has been awarded the Bell School prize for ‘Partnership, Impact and...

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Dr Judy Putt with the award

Pacific Security Cooperation Workshop

The Pacific Security Cooperation workshop will take place from 23-24 November 2022 at The Australian National University in Canberra.

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State of the Pacific 2022

Recordings now available – State of the Pacific 2022

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Dr Transform Aqorau receives honorary degree of Doctor of Laws

On 15th July, Dr Transform Aqorau was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the Australian National University (ANU) for exceptional...

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Dr Transform Aqorau with James Batley, DPA.

The Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) (formerly known as the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia program) is the leading international centre for applied multidisciplinary research and analysis concerning contemporary state, society and governance in the Pacific. Situated within the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, DPA seeks to set the international standard for scholarship on the region.

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Students undertaking a post-graduate research degree, graduate course work and undergraduate studies with DPA work under the guidance of some of the world’s leading experts on the Pacific. As a student, you will have access to cutting edge research that reflects the contemporary reality of the region.

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Sonia Palmieri

Sonia Palmieri

Sonia’s research interests lie in the social and cultural conditions that legitimise women’s leadership in political institutions, including parliaments. In parallel, Sonia explores with students and her disciplinary...

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Stewart Firth

Stewart Firth is a Research Fellow at DPA and has been with the department since 2005. His qualifications are in History and Politics, and his doctoral research focused on the history of German colonial rule in...

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Kerry Zubrinich

Dr Kerry Zubrinich is a researcher with the Department of Pacific Affairs. For the past 25 years her research has centred on aspects of social life in Melanesia with the peoples of Papua New Guinea and the indigenous...

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Patricia O'Brien

Patricia O’Brien is a wide-ranging historian and analyst of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She is the author of Tautai: Sāmoa, World History and the Life and Ta’isi O. F. Nelson (2017), The Pacific...

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Nicole Haley

Nicole Haley

Professor Nicole Haley joined DPA in 2006 and was appointed Convenor of the Program in January 2010. Nicole originally came to ANU in 1994 and graduated with a PhD in Anthropology in May 2003. Her thesis entitled...

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