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NSW Premier’s Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin
A novel by La Trobe student Carrie Tiffany, completed as part of her PhD studies in English, has won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and is one of five works shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Miles Franklin literary award to be announced later this month. Ms Tiffany’s novel Mateship with Birds also won […]
Posted in: Alumni, Arts, Awards, Books, Humanities and Social Sciences, News, People, Winter issue 2013
New archaeology treads lightly in dangerous lands
May 10, 2013
La Trobe University archaeologist David Thomas recently invited people to join him on a ‘dig’ in Afghanistan at some of that country’s oldest and most exciting historical sites. Yet there was no need for flak jackets and armed guards. That’s because Dr Thomas is one of a new breed of archaeologists who uses satellite images, […]
Posted in: Archaeology, History, Humanities and Social Sciences, News, People, Research, Winter issue 2013
Survey ranks our disciplines among best in the world
May 8, 2013
La Trobe University disciplines have been rated among the world’s top 100 in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. The rankings evaluated 2,858 universities verifying 8,391 programs on the basis of 68 million citations. Sociology came in at number 43, placing La Trobe in the world’s top 50 most elite institutions. In four other […]
May 21, 2013
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