Author: David William Lucas
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2015 Australasian Aid conference
The 2015 Australasian Aid Conference, hosted by the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU, and the Asia Foundation, will be held on 12th and 13th February. Click here to see registration. The full program is now available [pdf]. The last session on Friday afternoon includes one presentation with African content: ‘Effective strategies for transformation: a review on
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Ghana International Trade Fair
The Ghana High Commission in Canberra has advised the Australia Africa Business Council that the 19th Ghana International Trade Fair will be held in Accra from 26th February to 8th March 2015. A letter from the High Commission is attached. 19TH GHANA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR-AABC
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COMMONWEALTH RESEARCH
The ACT Branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society has announced the first Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award of up to $5000, which is restricted to Australian citizens resident in the ACT. “Proposed projects must be carried out in a Commonwealth country and applicants are being asked to include a clear statement of identifiable outcomes.” “Application forms,
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The first Caldwell African Research Visiting Fellow
Dr Makandwe Nyirenda from the Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been awarded the first John C Caldwell African Research Visiting Fellowship and should arrive at the ANU later this year. The Fellowship is funded through the John C (Jack) Caldwell Chair in Population, Health and Development
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“The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa” 04/09/2014
Please see the below information on an informal presentation by RegNet PhD Visiting Fellow, Charlotte Heyl. Charlotte is part of our DAAD Research Exchange Program with the GIGA Institute of African Affairs (Hamburg, Germany) led by Dr. Bjoern Dressel of the Crawford School. The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in
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Request for African Student Participants from Muuka Hlupho Dabali (Edith Cowan University)
My name is Muuka Hlupho Dabali and I am currently studying at Edith Cowan University (Western Australia). I am conducting a research project as a part of the requirements of my Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) Honours degree and would like to recruit participants through this website. My aim is to recruit roughly 100 participants. The study
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Obituary
We regret to announce the death of Professor Samuel Kwesi Gaisie on 14th July, 2014. Sam joined the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1964 as a lecturer in Demography and Statistics. He obtained his PhD in Demography at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra in 1973, with his thesis topic Determinants of Population Growth in
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Africa Australia Conference Opening
Senator Brett Mason, an ANU graduate, is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Australia’s Federal Coalition Government. His positive remarks to the Australia Africa conference held at the ANU on 15 July, 2014, can be found at https://ministers.dfat.gov.au/mason/speeches/Pages/2014/bm_sp_140715.aspx
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Humanitarian and skilled immigrants from Africa – Seminar, Friday 1 August
Friday 1 August 2014 2:30-3:30pm Seminar Room A Coombs Building (9) Fellows Road ANU Humanitarian and skilled immigrants from Africa: Their demography and human capital To date our study of Africans in Australia has compared Humanitarian entrants from Africa with other migrant categories. This presentation seeks comments on the next step which will focus on
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Australia Africa Conference 2014 Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Date & time Monday 6pm 14 July 2014 to 5pm Wednesday 16 July 2014 6.00pm–5.00pm Venue Crawford School of Public Policy, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU Speaker Various speakers. The Australia Africa Conference 2014 is an upgrade of two previous initiatives. First, is the Africa Update conference held at ANU last year, which