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2024 News
06 December 2024
Winners of 2024 SSEAC Ignition and Incubator Grants announced
SSEAC awards over $370,000 in new funding to established and emerging researchers to grow their collaborative research in Southeast Asia and tackle significant regional challenges.
10 July 2024
When science and technology meets society
Early-careers researchers share their rewarding experience at the Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School 2024 in Singapore, an interdisciplinary school designed to explore the interplay of science, technology and society in Southeast Asia.
28 June 2024
Celebrating partnership with Vietnam
A new publication showcases research, educational and capacity-building collaborations between the University of Sydney and institutions, communities and government partners in Vietnam.
23 May 2024
Politics in Action 2024: Power shifts, political legitimacy and performance
SSEAC’s flagship Politics in Action forum brought together a distinguished line-up of speakers from Australia and the region who provided insightful analysis on the current state of politics in six Southeast Asian countries.
03 May 2024
Underwater cultural heritage: why we’re studying orphaned objects
ARC Linkage Project researchers are studying orphaned objects in a large Indonesian public collection of ceramics and a smaller private Australian collection to restore meaning to underwater cultural heritage items separated from their find-spots.
12 April 2024
Advancing science communication in Indonesia
Professor Sonja Van Wichelen has been awarded a competitive Australia-Indonesia Institute grant to lead a new project aimed at advancing science journalism in Indonesia with a focus on planetary health.
20 March 2024
50 years of ASEAN-Australia relations
A wrap-up of the major initiatives and bilateral agreements announced at the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit.
06 March 2024
Australia-ASEAN Council Grant awarded for cross-cultural project
Dr Natali Pearson was awarded significant funding in the latest round of Australia-ASEAN Council Grants for a cross-cultural capacity-building project on maritime collections across Southeast Asia.
28 February 2024
Nickel and lithium: Cooperation or competition with Indonesia?
The ‘critical minerals’ bubble has seemingly burst. What does it mean for Australia’s geopolitical strategies?
21 February 2024
Why has it been difficult to create smoke-free areas in Indonesia?
Research on the rollout of top-down regulations in Indonesia such as the 2012 smoke-free area regulation shows that the nature and pace of bylaws are often shaped by local-level political priorities.