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The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences inspires ground-breaking ways of viewing the world.
Encompassing teaching and research activities in history and archaeology, social sciences, language, literature and culture, and the creative arts, the College aims to help understand the world and to shape it for the better.
We do this by offering thoughtful, diverse and challenging opportunities to understand and reshape human activities analytically, imaginatively and creatively.
We promote knowledge leadership and we teach transferable skills that are relevant to a diverse range of employers and industries.
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‘These Happy Effects on the Character of the British Sailor’: Family Life in Sea Songs of the late Georgian period.
(Amsterdam University Press, 2020)Songs about sailors were popular during the late Georgian period in Britain. Some were directed towards men in the navy or potential recruits, but they were also part of the musical repertoire of the middle-class drawing ... -
Distributed reading: Literary reading in diverse environments
(DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2018)Reading has always been a contentious and political practice, but this is heightened in the contemporary moment both because of the way the environments in which we read are changing so radically. For Katherine Hayles ... -
The Impacts of International Volunteering: Summary of the Findings
(Flinders University, 2016-11)Results From The research Building partnerships through IDV. Volunteerism works through relationships. AVID volunteers spend significant amounts of time and effort to establish good and productive relationships with host ... -
Volunteer Perspectives on the Impacts of International Development Volunteering
(Flinders University, 2017-03)Summary of results The impacts of international development volunteering are multidimensional. They touch host organisations and volunteers, range from skills building and organisational change to employability and life ... -
Host Organisation Perspectives on the Impacts of International Volunteering
(Flinders University, 2016-12)Summary of results. The impacts of international development volunteering are multidimensional. They touch host organisations and volunteers, range from skills building and organisational change to employability and life ... -
Expectations & Realities of International Development Volunteering
(Flinders University, 2016-12)The research sought to capture the distinctive contributions of international development volunteerism (IDV) to development assistance and people-to-people links. It asked: 1. How does IDV enable the building of development ... -
New evidence of megafaunal bone damage indicates late colonization of Madagascar
(Public Library of Science, 2018-10-10)The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded recently to 5000–1000 y B.P., six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about early migration sources, routes, maritime ... -
"I had one too..." an oral history of abortion in South Australia before 1970
(Flinders University, 1990-10)Forward: Abortion in South Australia is restricted by legislation. One of the requirements is that two medical practitioners recommend that a woman should have an abortion if they consider that her physical or mental or ... -
Life goes on: Archaeobotanical investigations of diet and ritual at Angkor Thom, Cambodia (14th–15th centuries CE)
(SAGE Publications, 2018-02-02)This is the first time an archaeobotanical analysis based on macroremains, both charred and desiccated, from Cambodia is reported. The archaeobotanical samples are rich and provide evidence of rice processing, consumption ... -
The Library at Soho Square: Matthew Flinders, Sir Joseph Banks and the Publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis.
(Bibliographical Society of ANZ, 2017)An account of Matthew Flinders' research and writing of the introduction to his Voyage to Terra Australis, including his use of London libraries like that of Sir Joseph Banks. -
Evidence for the breakdown of an Angkorian hydraulic system, and its historical implications for understanding the Khmer Empire
(Elsevier, 2017-11-10)This paper examines the construction and design of a 7-km long embankment, probably built for King Jayavarman IV between 928 and 941 CE, as part of a new capital. We calculate that the capacities of the outlets were too ... -
GIS-based evaluation of diagnostic areas in landslide susceptibility analysis of Bahluieț River Basin (Moldavian Plateau, NE Romania). Are Neolithic sites in danger?
(Elsevier, 2018-04-27)The aim of this study is to compare the predictive strenghtness of different diagnostic areas in determining landslide susceptibility using frequency ratio (FR), statistical index (SI), and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) ... -
3D Mapping of the Submerged Crowie Barge Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography
(Hindawi, 2018-05-08)This study explores the applicability and effectiveness of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) as a tool for the high-resolution mapping of submerged and buried shipwrecks in 3D. This approach was trialled through ... -
MARIANNE AND WILLOUGHBY, LUCY AND COLIN: BETRAYAL, SUFFERING, DEATH AND THE POETIC IMAGE
(Mimesis, 2018)Many of the song lyrics in Jane Austen’s personal music books (some collected or transcribed by her, some inherited or passed on from family members) are couched in the sentimental poetic diction prevalent in the eighteenth ... -
Mapping of bioavailable strontium isotope ratios in France for archaeological provenance studies
(Elsevier, 2017-12-30)Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of archaeological samples (teeth and bones) can be used to track mobility and migration across geologically distinct landscapes. However, traditional interpolation algorithms and ... -
Temporal variability in shell mound formation at Albatross Bay, northern Australia
(Public Library of Science, 2017-08-30)We report the results of 212 radiocarbon determinations from the archaeological excavation of 70 shell mound deposits in the Wathayn region of Albatross Bay, Australia. This is an intensive study of a closely co-located ... -
Scientific evidence for the identification of an Aboriginal massacre at the Sturt Creek sites on the Kimberley frontier of north-western Australia
(Elsevier, 2017-08-31)Archival research into episodes of frontier violence in the Kimberley region of Western Australia indicate that the bodies of Aboriginal victims of massacres were frequently incinerated following the event. This paper ... -
Human nature, human survival
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Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex
(2016-06)Review of 'Whaddaya Know?' Writings for Syd Harrex edited by Ron Blaber. -
Mediating identity narratives : a case study in queer digital storytelling as everyday activism
(AOIR, 2011)Digital Stories are short autobiographical documentaries, often illustrated with personal photographs and narrated in the first person, and typically produced in group workshops. As a media form they offer ‘ordinary people’ ...
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