How to become a Visiting Fellow

If you are interested in becoming a Visiting Fellow in Archaeology, please contact the following:

• Professor Geoff Hope
  Archaeology and Natural History
  RSPAS
  Email:
• Professor Matthew Spriggs
  School of Archaeology and Anthropology
  The Faculty of Arts
  Email:

Facilities

On-campus

For on-campus facilities including radiocarbon dating, please visit the CAR Facilities page.

For information on the ANU's various libraries, visit the ANU Library page. For more information on campus facilities, visit the ANU website

For further details of facilities available to researchers at the ANU, visit the ANU website

( View the CAR membership rules... )

Funding

Off-campus

• Funds available through the Australian Research Council (ARC)
• Grants available though the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
• For various Australian and overseas grants, connect to the SPIN database

Visiting fellows bring their own funds, but are given access to various facilities including office space, photocopying facilities, library borrowing facilities, etc. There are various funds available also, including the following:

On-campus

• Fellowships and scholarships available through the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS)
• Fellowships and scholarships available through the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Centre for Cross Cultural Research (CCR)
• Information on research funding and grants from the ANU's Research Services Office

Overview of Facilities

• General computing facilities
• Specialist digitising and image-analytical facilities for artefact analysis and mapping
• Extensive artefact, mammalian, fish and molluscan collections covering Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
• Provision on a competitive basis of free radiocarbon dates for dissertation projects through CAR and the ANU Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory
• Electron microprobe facilities for the study of ceramic and lithic artefacts, and plant macrofossils
• Internationally recognised pollen reference collections for the Indo-Pacific region and expertise in palaeoenvironmental research and climate modelling
• Well established laboratories for scientific analytical work, with equipment that includes a multiwave-microwave digestion system (MMDS), a ground-penetrating radar, a magnetic susceptibility meter and software, a hammered Livingston corer, laser rangefinders, X scape area calculators and video cameras

• 4WD vehicles and equipment for fieldwork including GPS (including the OmniSTAR Ranger Mapping System), compasses, tapes, range poles, dumpy levels and theodolites
• Financial support for fieldwork including work overseas
• Access to world class libraries on campus (with holdings of archaeological, ethnohistorical and anthropological literature, particularly for the Asian, Australian and Pacific regions eg. the Pacific ethnographic collections of the Menzies Library) and in the National Library of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) located nearby
• Internationally recognised research leaders acting as postgraduate supervisors, with programmes in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, Quaternary and Regolith Studies and Anthropology

For more details of archaeological facilities at the ANU, view the CAR Facilities page