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Awards
Annual Paul Bourke Lecture: What are the economic implications of a changing climate?
As part of Social Sciences Week (5-11 September 2022), we will be hosting a lecture from one of the 2021 Paul Bourke Award winners. This annual event is named in honour of [...]
Nominations open: 2021 Paul Bourke Award
The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research are named in honour of the Academy’s past president Paul Francis Bourke (1938–1999) who was a product of the History school at the University of Melbourne and went on to become one of the first Australian historians to obtain American style doctoral training.
EMCR Researcher spotlight: Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
One of 2019’s Paul Bourke Award winners, Rebecca Ananian-Welsh planned her first period of sabbatical planned for Semester 1 2020. COVID threw those plans out the window. Learn what happened, and why Rebecca spends her time thinking about bikies, press freedom and lego (not all at the same time).
EMCR Researcher spotlight: Dr Melissa Day
One of 2019’s Paul Bourke Award winners, Dr Melissa Day, is an expert in pain psychology. She splits her time between teaching and research, and works hard to make a difference to the lives of people with chronic pain. Learn about Melissa (and her love for The Far Side) in this Early to Mid Career Researcher profile.
EMCR Researcher spotlight: Dr David Frazier
One of 2019’s Paul Bourke Award winners, Dr David Frazier is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow who, when not thinking about statistical inference methods, can be found on the waves at Melbourne’s surf park.