ANU Reporter

Overview The objective of the prize is to award the top two students who achieved the best results across the Master of Economics, Master of Applied Economics, and Master of Economic Policy programs in each semester. The value of the prize awarded is $2,500 each. The prize will be on offer from 2023. Funding for this prize has been provided by the Research School of Economics. The prize is established in memory of the late Dr Vousden, a Reader of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at that time.

This study examines how local officials used coercive tactics in major Chinese investment projects over 15 years as Cambodia transitioned from competitive to hegemonic authoritarianism.

Join us on Saturday 15 August from 3:00–4:30pm for a showcase celebrating the ideas, discoveries and innovations shaping our future. Hosted by ANU alumni and science communicators Lee Constable and Dr Weliton Menario Costa (WELI), Visionaries Among Us brings together leading ANU researchers working on artificial intelligence, astrophysics and Australia's deep history, from its ancient past to its possible futures.

What can you distil into three minutes? For the twelve PhD students competing in the ANU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, it’s all the time they have to explain years of research to a room full of people – with a single static slide and no specialist knowledge assumed. Tergel Namsrai, from the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), won first place at The Australian National University (ANU) 3MT Grand Final this year.

Australia’s smoking rate has reached its lowest level on record, with new results from the country’s most trusted national survey showing fewer people are smoking than ever before. Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) say the findings demonstrate that comprehensive tobacco control policies continue to drive smoking rates down, including among young people.

The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia have lost one of its foremost experts on Russia, Kyle Wilson, who died on 29 June 2026 after a long battle with illness. Kyle Wilson was one of Australia’s leading experts on Russia whose distinguished career as a diplomat, linguist and intelligence analyst helped shape Australian foreign policy and understanding of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia for more than three decades.

One of Australia’s leading political and economic thinkers. George Megalogenis, will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on his new book. Three Shocks. Who We Are Becoming in the 21st Century, which charts Australia’s course into the new century. For decades, our politics has failed to keep up with a changing Australia.

'During the War' brings together the work of three Burmese photographers, Shakeel, Pyay Kyaw Aung, and Ants Are Always Busy, curated by Mayco Naing. Context Since the 2021 military takeover, Myanmar has entered a sustained revolutionary and armed conflict.

Australia’s largest gliding marsupial may not be the country’s best glider after all, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) that challenges a decades-old belief about how far southern greater gliders can travel through the forest canopy.

Joseph Toltz and Anna Boucher will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on their new book Out of the depths. The first collection of Holocaust songs.Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project.