Centre for Contemporary Histories at Deakin University
Concerned with pasts that are not yet past
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Relevant and meaningful to contemporary society
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. With funding from multiple industry partners and governments, the CCH team delivers dynamic and high-quality research.
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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
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Externally funded research
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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 – 22nd May – Mati Keynes
Join us online or in person for a seminar with Dr Mati Keynes. Education in Cultures of Redress The period from the late-1980s to the present has been attributed many monikers—age of apology, politics of regret, the guilted age—each in their own way seeks to capture something of the ‘essence’ of a preoccupation with theCCH Seminar – 1st May – Michael King
Join us online or in person for a seminar with Dr Michael King, President of the Geelong Cricket Club. Commissioning a History – behind the scenes of Line & Length. After decades of lobbying, in the 1993-94 season Geelong Cricket Club (GCC) was finally admitted to Victorian Premier Cricket. It was a monumental development as
Monday 15th April 2024
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