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The Centre for Contemporary Histories (CCH) is a dynamic, diverse and distinctive research centre that delivers and translates high-quality research into outcomes that are relevant and meaningful to contemporary society.

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Research Pillars

Improving and Building Collections using community-led principles

This pillar comprises two parts, the first working with communities and institutions of long-standing collecting; and the second working with institutions and communities to build new collections.

Democracy and History

Reflecting a worldwide trend among democracies, Australian civic society has been eroded recently. We aim to build a comprehensive picture of historical literacy and identify areas where we need to increase knowledge and understanding of the past.

Security and Development

We work to understand how concepts of Security and Development have evolved and taken particular forms at different moments in Australia s post-white settlement history.

Our Research

Members' books

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Externally funded research

Browse our projects that are winning competitive funding grants.

Papers & podcasts

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Survey on Attitudes to History

Since 2021, the Centre for Contemporary Histories has conducted the Deakin Contemporary History Survey (DCHS), which is the first nation-wide, longitudinal study of Australian attitudes to history.

Latest News

CCH Seminar – 24th April – Anna Wilkinson

Join us online or in person for a special Anzac eve seminar with Anna Wilkinson. “A love story that would have inspired immortal Shakespeare”: The history of Asian Australian war bride marriages and a case study of the Vietnam War. After the Second World War, Asian war brides became one of the few official exceptions

CCH Seminar – 10th April – Grant Explainer

Join us online or in person for this seminar that will help to demystify academic grants. Want to know what the difference is between a Laureate Fellow and a DECRA? Why a Linkage might work for your project, or a whether you should seek a Discovery. And what on earth is an NTRO? Join us

Monday 18th March 2024

If you have any information to share in the Newsletter please send it through to Anna, the newsletter will be published every fortnight on Monday. You can read all our news here, but don’t forget we regularly put out information by our social media channels including Facebook. Seminar Series 20th March Dr Ian Warren Hear

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