Staff and students of the School carry out an impressive research program, covering a wide range of areas within the School's component disciplines, and leading to a significant number of academic publications. Such research benefits not only the individual researchers, but also the School, leading as it does to constant improvement to the teaching and learning environment.
For details of research projects and publications, see History, Philosophy, Studies in Religion, or Classics and Ancient History (see menu at right).
The School's research strengths are reflected in the research centres affiliated with the School. These include:
Research Partnership
UQ Solomon Islands Partnership
Recent publications ...
A new book by Professor Clive Moore: Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, KBE, PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister Peter Kenilorea (Taiwan: Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, RCHSS, 2008), 516 pages.
Neil Pembroke, Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living (New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2007).
Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity:
Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living identifies central theological principles, values, and tasks associated with Christian spiritual development. Read more
here.
Rick Strelan, Luke the Priest: The authority of the author of the Third Gospel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
Rick Strelan’s previous research and publications have made significant contributions to scholarship in the Acts of the Apostles. In his latest book (
Luke the Priest: The authority of the author of the Third Gospel. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) Rick turns to the ‘first volume’ of Luke-Acts and argues against the traditional view that the author, traditionally known as Luke, was a medical doctor of gentile extraction, and proposes instead that he was a Jewish priest. Read more
here.
A new book by Professor R.E. Elson: The idea of Indonesia: a history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xxvi, 365.
Indonesia the nation-state is a miraculous and unlikely construction. At first sight, the material for national unity could not be more unpromising; its history is marred by deep and often bloody internal disputation based on ideology, ethnicity, religion, and region. Yet Indonesia, as concept and as nation-state, endures ... Read the full story here.
A new book by Dr Andrew Bonnell: Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from the Enlightnment to the Nazis (London: IB Tauris:, 2008), pp. viii + 254.
How did the catastrophic development of antisemitism in Germany interact with the portrayal of Shylock on the German stage? Read the full story here.