“The immersion experience program is life changing. … You learn so much and it opens your eyes to global events, issues and cultures. I want to be able to make a difference in this world. What I’ve enjoyed the most about my course is learning about the world from an entirely new perspective.”

Nick Carter is an Associate Professor of Modern History here at ACU, based our North Sydney campus. Before joining the university in 2013, Assoc. Prof Carter was the Head of History at the University of Wales, Newport, in the UK. A specialist in modern Italian history, his research has been published by leading international academic presses and journals in both the UK and Italy. He is the author of Modern Italy in Historical Perspective, 1870 – Present and Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento. His current research examines the post-war material cultural legacy of Italian Fascism.

Assoc. Prof Carter has extensive teaching experience having worked in the university sector since 1991 in the UK and Australia. He was also a co-recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2018 (awarded 2019). This prestigious award recognised his work in ‘designing and delivering an international interdisciplinary humanities curriculum that inspires students to develop cross-discipline and cross-cultural skills, create new knowledge and grow as individuals’.