The SESU provides scholarly expertise and research assistance to organisations working in areas that are central to ACU’s mission and ethos as a Catholic university. Through the facilitation of partner-initiated research projects, we can help inform, shape, evaluate and develop your programs and services.
Our experienced researchers are motivated to pursue deeply engaged, high-quality and ethical research. Guided by the principles of social justice and mutually-beneficial engagement, our researchers will produce meaningful and accessible research for your organisation.
Learn moreOur projects are developed in partnership with organisations that serve communities experiencing disadvantage or marginalisation. These organisations identify an issue, question or need for themselves or their sector and partner with SESU to work toward a resolution.
Learn more The Advisory Group is made up of six internal and external members and serves to guide the direction of the SESU, select the research projects to be funded by the SESU and identify relevant researchers from ACU’s Faculties and Research Institutes to work on SESU projects.
We invite you to partner with us on a research project that has meaning for your organisation. Organisations may choose to partner with the SESU on research projects that address broad, widespread problems or enhance their programs and services.
Learn moreAcademic staff at ACU can apply to work on SESU projects and lend their expertise to help address real-world problems identified by community organisations.
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Valentina Lorenzetti's work has led the top US federal health agency to announce a new standard dose of THC in cannabis research.
Media Release,General
Special edition – Women in High Performance Sport Seminar Series.
Green space around primary schools may improve students’ academic performance.
Media Release,General
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the method of understanding and controlling our brain's behaviour through the power of communication and specific language, whilst identifying our behavioural and...
Collaborate plus,General event
A national event was held to develop strategies for developing Catholic school leaders into the future
General,Education
The founder of the Queensland Bioethics Centre Sister Regis Mary Dunne AO RSM has been named as one of the 2021 “Queensland Greats”.
General
The long, hard path to a paramedicine degree from ACU is worth all the sacrifices for rower Rowena Meredith who has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Education,General
Head of the School of Philosophy Dr Richard Colledge writes on the importance of providing general education through systems such as ACU’s Core Curriculum.
General
ILSTE Researchers further examine digital disruption at the Australian Curriculum Conference on 5 June, in the stream Adapting to Change.
Education,Research
ACU has partnered with the Defence Science Institute to deliver the best in defence science research.
Recent PhD student and early career researcher (ECR) Dr Lesley Friend, now a Research Fellow with the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, celebrates graduation as well as a research...
Research
ACU has awarded its highest honour, an honorary doctorate, to Marionne MacRitchie and a posthumous award to the Hon John Fahey AC, GCSG during graduation ceremonies in Sydney.
General
A sudden surge in COVID-19 has pushed many who were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine to rethink their ‘wait and see’ approach.
General
The Multimodal Special Interest Group at the National Institute of Education in Singapore has run Professional Learning presented by ILSTE’s Professor Len Unsworth, for those interested in specialized...
Research
Men who were overweight and at risk of diabetes had better overnight blood sugar control when they exercised in the early evening rather than in the morning.
General
ACU expert in family involvement in patient care and escalation Rett Quinney has called for a national system in all hospitals to help patients escalate concerns about healthcare.
General
Time-restricted eating could be a gamechanger for more than one million Australians with type 2 diabetes.
General
Researchers from the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry's Religion and Theology program will present at the conference "Theological Genealogies of Modernity," which is jointly sponsored by AC...
Research
Sidelined NRL star Luke Keary is bullish about his long-term prospects which look bright after completing a Bachelor of Business (Administration) at Australian Catholic University.
Education,General
A former soldier is helping other veterans find peace through university study.
Career,Education
Striking images of the life and legacy of President John Kennedy are now on display in a new permanent exhibition at ACU’s North Sydney campus.
General
Coaches may be rummaging through their Spotify playlists after Australian Catholic University research found - for the first time in team sport - that high-tempo music can influence footballers’ minds...
General
Australian research, proven to improve children’s heart health and fitness, has been published by JAMA Pediatrics, the top-ranked paediatrics journal in the world.
A recent publication of the PM Glynn Institute argues the individual and public interest is in keeping the seal of confession.
General
New book offers a valuable contribution to the expanding conversation on big data and digital disruption in education. Edited by Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith, Professor Bob Lingard, and Dr Elizabeth H...
General,Research
Two ACU academics have been awarded prizes in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Career
It sounds like science fiction but, as ACU philosopher Dr Samuel Baron explained in The Conversation, there are real-world possibilities to the concept of a warp drive.
General
A six-week exercise program of either high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or resistance training can build and maintain muscle mass and strength in middle-aged men, new ACU research has found.
General,Media Release
ILSTE researchers are successful with a new project Future Education: Evidence-based innovations for Queensland schooling and workforces. A new Futures Framework will be created, using evidence of sc...
Research
Driven to a breakdown and forced to sell furniture to pay bills, a former soldier is helping other veterans find peace through university study.
General
ACU historian Professor Noah Riseman has been shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize for his book Pride in Defence: The Australian Military & LGBTI Service since 1945.
Research,Career
ACU philosopher Dr Gillian Russell has been named the author of the top-cited article in the journal Philosophy and Phenomenological Research for 2019-20.
Career,Research
The muscles of elite endurance athletes boast high numbers of extra-efficient mitochondria, the ‘energy’ powerhouse of muscle cells. Unlocking the secrets of these cellular components could yield gain...
Research
"White Russians, Red Peril", A new book uncovering by ACU's Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick uncovers the little known history of Russian migration to Australia.
Research
Australian Catholic University Professor Jim Sallis, has called for a heightened focus on exercise as a pandemic control after his research revealed physically inactive COVID-19 patients were two-and-...
General,Media Release
There are stereotypes that underestimate the range of boys' preferences for reading and the changing nature of those preferences as they develop as readers.
The interaction of emotional lived experiences and subject choice plans and decisions is reported in a new study.
Research
Entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prizes, the 2021 ACU Prize for Poetry, with poets from all over the country competing for the coveted $10,000 first prize.
General
Higher education partners of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA), convened at the GTPA Collective Digital Symposia in February and March 2021.
Research
ACU sociologist Professor Bryan Turner has been invited to speak in a prestigious Oxford Union Debate on the topic of Immortality.
General
When fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old scroll were discovered at the named Cave of Horror, near the western shore of the Dead Sea in Israel, ACU researcher Dr Gareth Wearne was in demand to explain...
Research
Understandings of culturally-based conceptions of writing motivation among Chinese students were advanced in this paper by Professor Clarence Ng at ILSTE and colleagues.
Research
The PM Glynn Institute has produced a series of podcasts exploring what palliative care is, what it does, and why it is so important.
General
A webinar on 26 March will address the dangers of fake news and populism in a time of pandemic
Disturbing stories of women’s experiences of historical and current sexual abuse dominating the news headlines have led child protection expert Daryl Higgins to call for an urgent public health approa...
General
A new article by ILSTE’sProfessor Clarence Ng researched the question - What motivates high school students to persist with challenging science?
Research
An innovative partnership with the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle responds to the multiple challenges confronting faith-based organisations. Anchored by ACU's Graduate Certificate in Mission and Cultur...
The design of maths modelling tasks by teachers for use by students has been informed by recent research by ILSTE academic Professor Vince Geiger and co-authors Prof Peter Galbraith (University of Que...
Research
How Australian middle-school students make meaning in science education by drawing on their science epistemic beliefs (SEB) is the subject of a new article in the International Journal of Education Re...
Research
Professor Steve Graham, ILSTE Professorial Fellow with the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, has been honoured and named as Regents Professor with Arizona State University in Febr...
Research
Higher education partners of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA), an initiative of the Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Learning Science and Teacher Education will convene...
Professor Mick Dodson AM will explore the real meaning of treaty when he delivers the keynote address at the seventh Annual Honourable Barry O’Keefe Memorial Lecture at Australian Catholic University.
ACU’s leadership in humanities has been further recognised with a prominent book award for one of our senior researchers.
As we return to work and study after summer, alarms are ubiquitous. ACU researcher Matthew Champion explores how past generations used birds, prayers, percussion, and early clocks to get them out of b...
The Melbourne Storm are more likely to win away from home than any of their opponents, according to a new study.
General,Media Release
Teacher education research agendas communicated in the book Innovation and Accountability in Teacher Education (by ACU ILSTE academics Claire Wyatt—Smith and Lenore Adie) is a result of ACU education ...
Research
New world-leading physical benchmarks have been set for Australia’s men’s and women’s rugby union players who will be tested as part of an alliance with ACU’s Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and ...
Career,Media Release
Mental health nurses report staff shortages, unsustainable high workloads, acutely unwell patients, and verbal and physical aggression as top causes of work stress impacting their own mental health, a...
Media Release,General
ACU is delighted to announce the first two in a group of teaching appointments to the new Ramsay Program in Western Civilisation.
Career
Noted French philosopher and distinguished visiting professor in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy Professor Claude Romano has been awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophie.
A new book edited by Professor Len Unsworth at ACU has been published by Springer. This book titled Learning from Animations in Science Education.
ACU’s Institute of Child Protection Studies is part of a new Global Safeguarding Alliance (GSA) that will promote knowledge and worldwide exchange on safeguarding and the prevention of abuse of childr...
Media Release
Joining an ACU Sport Club helped first year student Daniel Perinich meet other students when COVID-19 made it difficult to engage and have the normal university experience.
Education
When it comes to metabolic health, it's not just what you eat, it's when you eat it. New ACU research has added to the growing body of evidence showing how time-restricted feeding can improve health e...
Research
Physiotherapists can play a central role in helping their patients quit smoking with a simple three-step intervention model, according to new ACU research from cardiorespiratory physiotherapist Nia Lu...
Media Release
Carb loading in the week before a marathon is an old school approach and not the ideal way to prepare for an endurance event according to exercise physiologist Andy King.
Educational Leaders in Australia were found to be highly motivated towards the professionalisation of the Early Education workforce, an aspect of their work that is overlooked in currently policy.
Education,Research
Researchers in ILSTE have won many awards and fellowships for their research.
Research
There’s good news for more than one million Australians who have type 2 diabetes with new ACU research starting to tease apart how changing the time you eat might benefit your health.
Research
Research shows gaps in the teaching of writing in a recent article in The Conversation.
Research
The Virtual Symposium on Onlife Learning in early childhood education occurring on Friday 20 November 2020, will hear about technology-enabled learning contexts relevant for early childhood.
Research
Whether baked, mashed, fried, boiled, or steamed, potatoes are one of the most popular foods in Aussie diets, but the humble spud is a carbohydrate-based food that people with type 2 diabetes are typi...
Research
ACU clinical exercise physiologist Dr Phil Chapman supervised a simulation demonstrating how heat affects classroom learning for ABC series Big Weather (and how to survive it).
Education
Teenagers are experiencing record high levels of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a world-leading psychology professor and co-author of a new illustrated self-help book for young peop...
Research
New research from leading experts at ACU's Institute for Child Protection Studies will help improve supervised contact visits for about 45,000 children in out-of-home care and their birth parents.
Read about ILSTE's teaching and writing research
Research
Gender diverse youth feel significantly less safe at school than other students but they trust adults to tackle sexual harassment and support them in risky situations, according to a new Australian Ca...
Media Release
Canberra-based poet Geoff Page is the 2020 winner of the ACU Prize for Poetry for his entry Jericho. His winning poem was selected ahead of Footprints by Fiona Lynch from Elwood in Victoria ($5,000 se...
Media Release
New ACU research is showing how busting a move via silent disco technology can boost the wellbeing of residential aged care residents with dementia.
As an ARC Future Fellow at the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE), Professor Kathy Mills, is a winner of the 2020 ACU Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Awards.
Research
It's been a tough year on the field for Alex Twal and Oliver Clark but the Wests Tigers duo have succeeded off it by completing degree at ACU.
Career,General
ACU has become aware of false claims connecting it to research associated with Synergy Pharmaceuticals and a herpes simplex cure.
Research
New research by Dr Colette Alexander , Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith (from ACU’s Institute for Learning Science and Teacher Education) and Dr Anna du Plessis, identified that Queensland teachers’ self-...
Research
An ILSTE paper detailing collaboration in the use of digital infrastructure, data and visualisation by ACU researchers at ILSTE, has been selected as a Finalist in these Awards at the 19th European Co...
Research
ILSTE is a Finalist in the AFR 2020 Higher Education Awards (Education Technology), for using innovative technology in research on improving the quality and impact of teacher education.
Research
Australian Catholic University leads a major national research and development initiative to enable digital innovation at scale in teacher education.
Research
Like so many Victorian teenagers, a young Tom Crameri just wanted to work for an AFL club.
General
ACU continues to climb rankings among the top two per cent of universities in the world
General,Education
Teenagers with controlling-style parents experience a sharp drop in mental health and self-esteem, and the damage can be lasting, a world-first ACU study has found.
Media Release,General
Both elite and amateur athletes would get better performance bang for their buck using traditional carbohydrate drinks/sports foods rather than costly hydrogel drinks, according to ACU researchers who...
Research
Leading child protection expert Daryl Higgins has joined a list of prominent health academics calling for an urgent change to Medicare rebates to cover families seeking parenting advice to protect the...
The ACU National Virtual Choir provides singers from across all campuses with the opportunity to collaborate in a massed virtual choir project during COVID-19.
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has appointed Professor Zlatko Skrbis as the University’s next Vice-Chancellor and President.
Media Release,Vice-Chancellor and President
ACU Acting Provost Professor Zlatko Skrbis was pleased to attend the launch of the first Australian Catholic Anti-slavery Network (ACAN) Annual Report
Media Release
The ACU Centre for Liturgy hosted the President of the Catholic Theological Union, Rev Prof Mark R. Francis CSV
Media Release
Researchers led by ILSTE’s Professor Joce Nuttall have exposed the demands being made on leaders in Australia’s early education centres.
Find out if you’ve won.
General
Prac placement at a hospital in western Sydney has provided thrower Alex Hulley with a timely distraction to her disrupted mission to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
Career,General
Understanding that disputes can be about more than just money has helped Chris Gardner and Eve Van Rhine seal victory in the Australian Law Students’ Association Negotiation Competition grand final.
ACU has just completed a pilot program that will help support student veterans as they transition from the military to studying at ACU via a free, two-week preparatory program.
General
Cyclists who retreated indoors due to COVID-19 restrictions could discover the nutritional keys to maximised performance.
Research,General
Thirty scholarship students will be the first to undertake the new Bachelor of Arts (Western Civilisation) at Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) North Sydney Campus next year under a generous fund...
General
A life-changing new program is giving young people of all abilities the confidence to develop an everlasting love of physical activity.
Education,General
The ACU Faculty of Theology and Philosophy is pleased to announce that PhD candidate in Historical Theology, Mr Jonatan Simons, was awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the North American Patri...
Media Release
Australia's workforce, economy and society needs the capabilities of a humanities education: critical thinking, analytical and research skills, and the ability to grapple with and communicate complex ...
Professor Bob Lingard’s new edited collection, Globalisation and Education with Routledge, is now in production.
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Ester Cerin, program leader of the Behaviour, Environment and Cognition Research Program at the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research (MMIHR) at ACU, has been awarded more than $680,000 as part...
Research
ACU is pleased to announce the transition of the Ministry Leadership Program (MLP) from Catholic Health Australia to ACU. Former Director of MLP at Catholic Health Australia, Susan Sullivan has also t...
Media Release
ACU Pro-Chancellor Julien O’Connell has been awarded an upgraded Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his service to the community.
The Stakeholder Engaged Scholarship Unit at ACU is seeking expressions of interest for research projects from organisations working in areas central to the University's mission and ethos.
Media Release
IRCI is pleased to be relaunching the Biblical and Early Christian Studies program seminar series for 2020 via Zoom with an outstanding array of international speakers.
The ACU Centre for Liturgy Postgraduate Scholarship for 2020 has been awarded to ACU Faculty of Theology and Philosophy masters' student Thomas Cullen. On awarding the prestigious scholarship to Mr C...
Media Release
A three-day turnaround is sufficient for soccer players to rebound as football administrators around the globe race to compress fixtures to complete seasons disrupted by coronavirus.
General,Media Release
The Australian Province of the Society of Jesus (APSJ), and ACU are pleased to announce a new agreement for the delivery of ACU accredited courses by the Jesuit College of Spirituality (JCS).
ACU researcher Imre Kouw has received the British Nutrition Foundation's prestigious 2020 BNF Drummond Early Career Scientist Award which recognises early career excellence in nutrition science.
General
Separated or divorced parents normally grapple with countless issues, but the COVID-19 crisis means they face new difficulties negotiating shared care of children with the stress of balancing work, ho...
Bigger, better and stronger is the silver lining by-product of COVID-19 isolation for Sydney Roosters winger Brydie Parker.
General
Internationally renowned historian of modern Russia, Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick FAHA, and leading early modern scholar of gender and emotions, Professor Susan Broomhall FAHA, have been appointed to ...
Seven new research centres will enhance ACU’s reputation in the arts, education, health, and theology and philosophy.
Research
Thinking Philosophy brings the research of ACU philosophers to anyone interested in an an examined life.
General
Seeking equity for non-dominant English authors publishing in educational research journals
The Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education has released a Policy Brief on the teaching of writing.
Research
Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith from the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education joins Emeritus Professor Barry McGaw AO and Emeritus Professor William Louden AM to undertake the NAPLAN Rev...
Research
IRCI researchers, Matthew Crawford, Michael Hanaghan, and Sarah Parkhouse have been awarded prestigious fellowships in Washington, Frankfurt, and London in 2020.
Research
Leading British philosopher Professor John Haldane will join the Australian Catholic University this year to establish a new project to develop Catholic school education, situating this within a broad...
General
Regular exercise changes the composition of the gut bacteria and may play a crucial role in skeletal muscle function and endurance.
General
Professor Joy Damousi FASSA FAHA has been appointed as the Director of ACU’s new Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
General
ACU has been named first runner-up in an international award for its community engagement programs, including a unique model which ensures every student can make a community contribution while at the ...
General
Education Minister Tehan announced on 12 January, the successful ARC Linkage project for ACU, that Chief Investigator Professor Suzy Edwards, of the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Educati...
Research
Law student Danielle Lamborn has risen from homeless teenager to Refugee Law Project volunteer and is set to embark on a prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarship to the Philippines.
Career,General
It's no secret that being in nature is good for your health. Something as simple as a walk in the park can boost well-being and deliver benefits ranging from better sleep to lower stress.
General
Two Australian Catholic University researchers have been awarded prestigious ARC Discovery Project grants to further their work
Media Release
ACU researcher Evelyn Parr will explore if delaying breakfast and consuming an early dinner – known as time-restricted eating – can improve the symptoms of lifestyle-related health conditions such as ...
Research
ACU’s Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith is one of a three-person panel of education experts undertaking a review of NAPLAN
Research
Queens’s University scholar, Professor Chris DeLuca is working with Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education Institute researchers including Associate Professor Lenore Adie, Professor Cla...
Research
Professor Mogens Niss is an international collaborator with the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education on a maths research project. This ARC project seeks to identify, apply and refine ...
Research
All adults – not just policy makers – are dutybound to remove fear from children’s lives, according to Michele Riondino, Australian Catholic University’s Professor of Canon Law and Children’s Rights.
Research
Five academic researchers from the Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research have been named in the 2019 Web of Science Global List of highly cited researchers.
General,Research
Professor Kathy Mills, ILSTE, ACU, shared inspiring stories from multilingual language learners providing the keys to developing agile and inter-culturally aware learning communities
Research
Australian Catholic University's leadership in philosophy and religion has been further endorsed by the Australian Research Council with two Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA).
Research
People who pursue beauty, fame and money above other goals are less happy than those who want to improve the world, new research has found.
Research
Parents of ‘tweens’ will get a report card on how their child uses screen-based devices and whether that use meets national guidelines.
General
Professor Stephen Finlay has been appointed as the Director of a new institute dedicated to philosophical research at Australian Catholic University (ACU).
Media Release,Research
Exercise is being teamed up with drug therapy to see if it can become a potent weapon against prostate cancer.
General
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has performed remarkably well over the last three years in the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation.
General,Research
A new article in The Conversation co-authored by ILSTE Professor Kathy Mills and Christian Moro (Bond University), both with teaching backgrounds, opens up debate on this pivotal question for educator...
Research
As tennis demands more from its players, an Australian Catholic University study has revealed it is women who pay a greater physical toll at the Australian Open.
General
Congratulations to Michele Haynes, Joy Cumming, Melanie Spallek and Yoon-Suk Hwang who were today awarded funding of $84,540 from the …
Research
ACU has been awarded over $2.6 million in prestigious Australian Research Council funding in 2018.
Media Release
ACU researcher Dr Jonathan Teubner has won the prestigious Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise for his monograph …
Research
ACU’s Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) has been awarded grants for two separate projects set to improve …
Research
Participants wanted for a study to investigate whether the use of a metronome (to guide walking pace) or auditory feedback based on one’s walking patterns can improve balance in older adults who have ...
Research
Earlier this week, Institute Professorial Fellow Stephen Evans was one of five speakers at a session of the …
Research
Combining a high protein diet with cardio and strength training could be the key to staving off debilitating muscle loss.
Research
It’s been almost four decades since two pioneering psychologists proposed a radical shift in the science of motivation.
Research
New Flash, just released. This is the foundational book for the new series, Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability. The …
Research
ACU Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Greg Craven expressed displeasure at the news that funding for 11 research grants, including one from ACU, had been overturned for no apparent reason.
ACU joins Boston College in the United States and six other Catholic universities from around the world as founding members of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU).
Media Release
Following the launch of the Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies last month, Professor Susan Edwards, co-author of …
Research
The Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education (ILSTE) is conducting an afternoon literacy event on Thursday November 15h at …
Research
Dr Emmanuel Nathan has been appointed by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity to the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC).
General,Media Release
ACU hosted the fourth Parliamentary Interfaith Breakfast today at Parliament House in Sydney.
Media Release
The Australian Catholic University (ACU) and KU Leuven, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, are calling for applications for two …
Research
Chief Investigator Professor Susan Edwards announces the launch of the project website for A Best Practice Framework for playgroups-in-schools at …
Research
Our very own Professor Herb Marsh (BA Hons, Indiana Univ, MA, PhD, UCLA; Dsc UWestSyd; HonDoc, Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munich) has presented his keynote address at the 2018 Australian Psychological So...
Research
Low socioeconomic (SES) schools offer the most rewarding work for dedicated teachers, according to an expert in how to teach …
Research
By: Associate Professor Clarence Ng, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education (ACU) This book examines promoting engagement for children …
Research
ACU Professor Susan Edwards writes Australia’s first national Statement on young children and digital technology. Early Childhood Australia (ECA) this …
Research
Upcoming publication on international perspectives on Innovation and Accountability in Teacher Education: Setting Directions for New Cultures in Teacher Education …
Research
Professor Vince Geiger from ACU’s Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education has been awarded a Giovanni Prodi Professorship at …
Research
A new book on the Australian curriculum, featuring a chapter on Assessment: the trilogy of standards, evidence and judgement by …
Research
The Director of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Professor David Runia, has been appointed a Visiting Professor …
Research
Professor Susan Edwards presents keynote address at 2018 DEKTA Annual Conference: 2.30pm, Thursday 30 August …
Research
There is magic in stories. We all remember hearing them as children, and we loved them. Imaginary adventures set in …
Research
The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry is pleased to welcome back Professorial Fellow Eleonore Stump who will be at the …
Research
I recently led a “walkshop” – a walking workshop – that taught cardiac rehabilitation experts how to assess the pedestrian-friendliness of streetscapes, including design of footpaths (if any), street ...
Research
On 26-28 July 2018, scholars from ACU and around the world met at ACU’s Rome campus for a …
Research
Future Fellowship Award to Professor Kathy Mills On 02/08/2018, the Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Honourable Simon Birmingham …
Research
On Tuesday IRCI Research Fellow Dr Veronica Alfano, who is also Assistant Professor in the Institute for Languages and …
Research
IRCI’s Dr David Newheiser spoke this week with Rachel Kohn from ABC Radio National’s The Spirit of Things – in a …
Research
NAPLAN could learn from the emoji icons made famous by smart phones, by including new digital literacies as a way …
Research
Kate Gavin is the recipient of the 2018 Francis Xavier Conaci scholarship which will assist her to study at the Rome Campus.
General
Congratulations to IRCI researcher Dr Matthew Champion, whose University of Chicago Press book …
Research
Parents frequently ask how to help their child make the most of digital technology in early childhood. In this …
Research
New Australian research of almost 5,000 children has found that books – not prestigious schools or expensive gadgets – are …
Research
“Tradition and Innovation in Early Christianity” – a symposium to be held at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry …
Research
Data walls are being taken up in schools internationally to support the goals of transparency and accountability. However, there is …
Research
Classroom research involving more than 200 primary school students across three low socioeconomic Queensland schools has used smart phones, …
Research,Media Release
Neglected texts examined at the Institute On Monday and Tuesday 25-26 June the Program in Biblical and Early Christian …
Research
We are pleased to announce that Matthew Champion’s …
Research
Robert Audi, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and …
Research
IRCI Researcher Sarah Parkhouse and Professorial Fellow Francis Watson publish a new edited collection titled ‘Connecting Gospels: Beyond the …
Research
Biblical scholars of renown in Melbourne John Collins and …
Research
What is the future of writing? Why can’t kids today write in cursive? Can we expect more rapid cultural shifts in the future due to globalization and technology?
Research
Leading ACU exercise and sport science experts John Hawley and Prue Cormie co-chaired the prestigious Research to Practice 2018 conference, which drew 800 global and national leaders.
Research
Obesity warrior Jim Sallis has been presented with the prestigious 2018 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award in the US. Professor Sallis, an ACU professorial fellow, received the prize for his pion...
Research
Targeted exercise programs for older men with prostate cancer are emerging as a crucial therapy to ease long-standing depression, anxiety and psychological distress. New ACU research is investigating...
Research
Welcome to Dr Stephanie Collins, who has joined the Institute from the University of Manchester. Her research primarily concerns the philosophy …
Research
“A Dialogue on Death”: Atheism and Christianity Panel Forum Australian Catholic University, 3 April 2018 Death confronts us …
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Professor Susan Edwards – Director of Early Childhood Futures research group at LSIA is the lead author on the recently …
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Seminar 1 Professor Karen R Harris Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instruction: Built for Teacher Ownership and Differentiation Professor Karen …
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Professor Vince Geiger, with Professor Chris Branson and Dr Jenny Martin, have been successful with an application for the research project Principals as STEM Leaders — building the evidence base for ...
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Prue Cormie among leaders in exercise and sports science Leading exercise oncology expert Prue Cormie has been named as one of Exercise & Sports Science Australia’s three top female leaders in 2018.
Research
Susan discusses the Early Language Learning Australia (ELLA) project.
Research
The Trial of the GTPA was completed successfully in 2017. The Trial included the validation of the instrument, standard setting, moderation, and the setting of the cut-score (minimum acceptable level)...
Research
Amid the big claims of big data, analytics, datification, and data mining, this article answers central questions for qualitative research. In the debates about the enormity and ubiquity of data in th...
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Developmentally appropriate practices like play-based learning are valuable for strengthening many areas of development and learning. This topic aims to show how play-based learning can help support y...
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Starting school for the first time can be stressful. Children are suddenly thrown into a foreign environment, juggling the pressure of learning new academic skills and establishing relationships with ...
Research
Research to Practice is Exercise & Sports Science Australia’s (ESSA) biennial conference, and features international leaders in the Exercise Science, Exercise Physiology and Sports Science fields. Res...
Research
We must address the effect international events have on communities, says the Vice-Chancellor and President ahead of a meeting in Rome.
Media Release
ACU projects have been awarded more than $3.1 million in funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants.
Media Release,Research
Australia’s first Exercise Medicine Program to help treat cancer and improve patient outcomes has been unveiled...
Media Release
New research has revealed people living in regional, rural or remote Australia are 90 per cent more likely to die from heart conditions caused by high blood pressure than people living in metropolitan...
Media Release
A/Prof Prue Cormie‘s contribution to sports and science in Australia was recognised last month, following Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA) calling upon the sector to nominate influential wom...
Research
Professor Daryl Higgins is the new director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS), a nationally recognised centre of research excellence in the field of child, youth and family welfare.
Media Release
ACU researchers are trialling a program to address thoughts and behaviours about eating and weight before they develop into an eating disorder.
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Ritual, belief and habituation: Religion and religions from the axial age to the Anthropocene
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Given the plurality of readings of the secularisation thesis, please could you give us a summary of your own take on our sub-discipline’s paradigmatic theory?
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The Vice-Chancellor and President has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to education, the Church and the law.
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This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted “the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship” (2008), and offers the first maj...
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We announced last month that Bryan S. Turner and Berna Zengin Arslan were the winners of the 2014 Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship for their article Legal pluralism and the Sharia...
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ACU researchers are celebrating after a strong performance in the 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. The performance affirms ACU’s rapidly rising research trajectory.
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Following the tragic terror attacks in Paris, the world turns its attention to the organisation behind the carnage. Do we now need to rethink our approach toward ISIS, previously characterised as a d...
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The terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut have elicited a disturbingly predictable series of responses. We’ve witnessed the usual political posturing, harsh military reprisals, the immediate politica...
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The Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society honour Hans Joas and Bryan S. Turner for their research.
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Based on recent research in Detroit, including multiple interviews with its civic, business and political leaders, this is one of the first reports to document these collaborative efforts in the 12 mo...
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Victorian parents need to take the pressure off now they are once again teaching their children at home, according to two Melbourne-based education experts.
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