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<h1 style="margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:justify"><b>2015 Pacific Research Colloquium – Applications now open<o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">26 January – 6 February, 2015
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Australian National University, Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hosted by the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.8pt;mso-para-margin-bottom:.4gd;text-align:justify">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Each year, the State Society and Governance in Melanesia program (SSGM) at the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Australian National University hosts the Pacific Research Colloquium – an event that</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> brings early career
researchers from the Pacific - including Papua and Timor-Leste - to Canberra for 2 weeks of intensive research skills development work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We are offering a limited number of scholarships to early-career researchers from the Pacific to participate in the
2015 Pacific Research Colloquium in Canberra, which will take place from 26 January to 6 February 2015. Participants will develop research skills by working with some of the top Pacific studies scholars in Australia.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To apply for a scholarship you need to:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Be currently undertaking social science research;
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Be doing research on, or applicable to, the Pacific;
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Hold a passport & be eligible for an Australian visa.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You do not need to be a university graduate to apply.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Each scholarship provides payment of full travel costs to and from Canberra plus accommodation and living expenses
for the duration of the stay. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Early-career Australian and New Zealand researchers doing social science research in relation to the Pacific, Papua
or Timor-Leste may also apply to attend the Pacific Research Colloquium on a self-funded basis.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Social science research fields include anthropology, development studies, political science or public administration,
gender studies, geography, sociology, Pacific Studies, public health, or law. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In 2015, the program will include:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Intensive training on designing, conducting, and writing reports on, research projects
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- SSGM and other ANU scholars providing mentoring and feedback on your research projects and papers
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Guided introductions to research resources
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">- Visit to Parliament, and social events
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To encourage high standard work, SSGM will also offer a separate four week visiting fellowship to the participant
who authors the best paper. The recipient of this fellowship will have the opportunity to present at SSGM’s flagship event - the State of the Pacific conference.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SSGM also offers all Colloquium participants ongoing mentoring as they develop their research projects and write
up their papers after the Colloquium. Opportunities to submit papers for publication as SSGM Discussion Papers will also be available to participate.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To apply:
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015PRC"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015PRC</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Deadline for applications is
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sunday, 24 August 2014
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Successful Applicants<b>
</b></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">will be notified by 15</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">September 2014. They will then be required to submit a full first draft paper by 3</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">November 2014. Final award of the Scholarship will depend on SSGM receiving the draft paper by the due date. We will send mentor’s comments on the first draft. Then we will require
a second draft of the paper, taking account of the mentor’s comments, to be sent to us by a date (to be advised) in January 2015. Air travel tickets will not be provided until we receive that second draft.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information contact Peta Hill:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">T: +61 2 6125 1527
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">E:
</span><a href="mailto:ssgm@anu.edu.au"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ssgm@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Web:
</span><a href="http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/2015-PRC"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/2015-PRC</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Video:
<a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/news-events/video/mind-your-language">http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/news-events/video/mind-your-language</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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