Research

The College is one of the worlds' leading international centres of research on Asia and the Pacific. Its strengths lie in the breadth and depth of its research. These encompass more than a dozen disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and cover a geographical range from Polynesia in the east to Pakistan in the west and from Australia in the south to Mongolia in the north.

The College's Australian-based researchers engage in critical dialogue with scholars, thinkers and opinion-makers across the region. They thereby

• create knowledge which contributes to global understanding of Asia and the Pacific
• inform Australian and regional policy-makers
• generate new theoretical perspectives for analysing social, political, economic and cultural issues
• foster future generations of researchers through post-graduate training
• infuse undergraduate teaching with the excitement of first-hand experience and the discovery of ideas using the vernacular languages of the region

The College is committed to providing an intellectual climate based on unstinting support for scholarship, respect for diverse research methods, the demand for rigorous enquiry and the joy of discovery.