ADI – Publications and Presentations

A/Professor Andrew Singleton and Dr Anna Halafoff, have released a report from their multi-university,  ARC funded study, Australia’s Generation Z,’s  Negotiating Religion Sexuality and Diversity​.  Drawing on a national survey of teens, along with in-depth interviews and focus groups, the researchers find that: 

  • 82% of teens support marriage equality
  • Only 37% of teens believe in God; 29% believe in reincarnation
  • Three quarters (74%) of Australia’s teens have a positive attitude towards Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism
  • Half of Australia’s teens (50%) think that people with very strong religious beliefs are often too intolerant of others

The full report can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/yaz73tyn​

Dr Billy Griffiths and Lynette Russell have published the following article in the latest volume of Aboriginal ​History: Griffiths, B. and Russell, L. (2018), ‘What We Were Told: Responses to 65,000 Years of Aboriginal History’, Aboriginal History 42 (Dec 2018), 31-53. 

Billy’s recent book, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia, was highly commended at ​the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the prize for non-fiction.

A/Professor Maurizio Meloni has three presentations of his upcoming book Impressionable Biologies. From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics (Routledge, 2019):

  • Kings College London, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine on Jan 15;
  • the School of Social Sciences Seminar Series, Cardiff University on Jan 17; and

the Centre For The Study Of Knowledge Expertise and Science, Cardiff University on Jan 18.

Professor Jon Altman had an article recently published in the International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health, ‘Health-Promoting Food Pricing Policies and Decision-Making in Very Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Stores in Australia‘.

Professor Altman also had an opinion-article published in Land Rights News, ‘Indigenous poverty is far from being history‘. 

Professor Altman provided evidence to the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs which was referred to in their ‘Report on the impact of inauthentic art and craft in the style of First Nations peoples‘. 

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed has two recently published articles, one co-authored with Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh:

  1. Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Shahram Akbarzadeh (2018). Understanding Pakistan’s relationship with Iran. Middle East Policy, 25(4), 86-100. http://www.mepc.org/journal/understanding-pakistans-relationship-iran
  2. Zahid Shahab Ahmed (2018). Idealism versus pragmatism in teaching peace in Pakistan. Peace Review, 30(3), 331-338. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10402659.2018.1495859

Dr Christopher Mayes had an article published in The Conversation, ‘Cultivating a nation: why the mythos of the Australian farmer is problematic‘.