Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter. This is the last newsletter for 2025. Details for the next newsletter will be shared in 2026. We will also share news and updates on LinkedIn. Please tag us in the news that you are posting on Linkedin so we can share it!

News from Members and Associates

  • Huge congratulations to Mia Martin Hobbs, who has secured a prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Award to research race, gender and violence in the war on terror. Mia has been based in CCH for more than four years and is a current member of the CCH Executive, leading ECR initiatives in the Centre and much of the Australian Policy and History activity. And congratulations to Mia for being awarded the ADI Early Career Researcher Award.
  • Congratulations to adjunct member and esteemed sports historian, Roy Hay has just been inducted into the Football Australia Hall of Fame for his many contributions to the history of football (of the round ball kind). We are very proud of Roy’s wonderful recognition!
  • Congratulations to David Lowe, Tori Stead, Jon Ritchie and Anna Kent who were awarded the Industry and Community Engagement Faculty Award for the Australia Awards PNG Short Course, delivered in June 2025.
  • Congratulations to Scott McCarthy who has two new publications:
  • Anna Kent gave her final presentation as part of her NLA Fellowship last week. You can watch the presentation on Youtube here.

A message from the Co-Director, Prof. David Lowe

This year has been one of many stellar achievements by CCH members across a wide range of topics and measured according to books, high ranking journal articles, non-traditional research outputs, research income, prizes, impact and, in the case of graduate researchers, PhDs completed or progressed in impressive ways. It has also been a year in which the research environment in the Faculty has been reviewed. This has required us to adjust our horizons a little while the review process was undertaken, and we are still awaiting the details of the new faculty research environment. But the process has been a welcome one. It has generated positive feedback about the functioning and achievements of CCH, and I’m hopeful that the group will have a bright, exciting future in years ahead. Some of the content of the CCH submission to the review appears at the start of the annual CCH report for 2025, a document that also celebrates our annual achievements in greater detail.
There will be more to share on this score as soon as we have news to hand. As the year comes to a close, I’d like to wish everyone a safe and restful festive season. The end of the year also heralds the end of the contract for Anna Kent, who has been a lynchpin for so much CCH planning, management and communications, while somehow also teaching and gathering great momentum in her own research relating to international students in Australia. A huge thanks to Anna, and good wishes for what comes next. We are very keen for CCH to remain connected to whatever that is.

Annual Report

The 2025 CCH Annual Report has been published. You can find more information here.

Call For Papers

Faculty of Arts and Education Graduate-Led Conference
5 March 2026
Deakin Downtown

Polarities and Entanglements: Empowerment, Impact and Collaboration in an Age of Conflict

All Graduate Researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Education are invited to submit proposals for the 2026 Student-Led Conference. No matter your focus, methodology, study mode, or stage of candidature – all Graduate Researchers from the schools of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication and Creative Arts, and NIKERI are encouraged to apply for this amazing opportunity. We welcome submissions [on the theme or general] for individual presentations and group panels, both creative and critical. Travel support is available for candidates travelling from regional/remote Victoria and interstate. See Graduate-Led Conference 2026 for more details.

The Graduate-Led Conference 2026 invites you to explore how individuals empower, impact, and collaborate to co-create the future in an age of conflict.

Submission sub-themes

‘Polarities and Entanglements: Empowerment, Impact and Collaboration in an Age of Conflict’ serves as a provocation to guide submissions. Suggested areas for exploration include, but are not limited to:

  • Power, Inequality, and Representation in a Climate Crisis.
  • Knowledge, Truth, Justice, and the Post-Fact World.
  • Global South Perspectives, Geopolitics, and Decolonial Futures.
  • New Media and AI – Opportunities and Challenges.

Submissions close Friday 19 December 2025. You can find more details in this document, and please direct all enquiries and submissions to artsed-graduate-conference@deakin.edu.au

Events

Education Histories Now – 2025 ANZHES Symposium
11-12 December 2025
University of Melbourne
This year’s Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Symposium is a 1.5-day gathering exploring how histories of education continue to shape, unsettle, and inspire contemporary debates. Find out more here.

CCH Research Grants and other opportunities

Grant options not confirmed – need clarification before 2026 applications open.

CCH Shut Up and Write every Monday, 9am-1.30pm, via Zoom. Start the week strong with a Shut Up and Write! We will run 4 x 50 minute blocks of writing/focus, with breaks in between to chat, grab coffees, etc. All CCH colleagues welcome, especially ECRs, HDRs, and those who work remotely. Feel free to join at any time – it doesn’t matter if you can’t make it to every session, or every block in a session, just come when you can.The zoom link is here. (Meeting ID: 822 0730 8335, Password: 65182364)
If you would like a recurring invite in your calendar, or you have any trouble joining, email Mia at mia.martinhobbs@deakin.edu.au

Opportunities

Calling all history HDRs!
The HDR representatives for the Australian Historical Association (AHA) – Matilda Hatcher (ANU) and Harrison Croft (Monash) have put together some FAQs about the role of the AHA and its benefits for postgrads. Membership for an enrolled postgraduate student costs $85 AUD, and is valid for one year. You can read more about the great benefits of being an AHA member in this letter from Matilda and Harry.

Journalism History – 2025-26 Essay Competition Call

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Journalism History journal calls for scholarly essays that explore the media conditions of 1776 and subsequent revolutionary movements across a variety of global contexts – from the eighteenth century newspapers and pamphlets of the new United States, as well as from contemporaneous media and political developments around the world. We encourage an expansive and inclusive view of media that encompasses writing and printing, but also oral communication and illustration in cultures where writing and literacy were not emphasized. And we’re also interested in when and how later revolutionary movements took up, invoked, echoed, and/or critiqued the principles of the US Declaration of Independence in any national context.

To be considered for inclusion in the essay series, please submit the following to jhistoryjournal@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time December 15, 2025:
  • A brief CV (including publications).
  • A 500-word synopsis of the topic you plan to discuss in your essay, along with a short list of key primary and secondary sources you plan to draw from.
  • An affirmation that the essay has not been proposed or published elsewhere.

See here for more information.

Special Issue Call for Papers – “Connecting Research to the Field of Comparative and International Education Studies in Oceania.”

The outgoing NERO Co-Leaders, Dr Liberty de Rivera and Tim Baice together with the incoming NERO Co-Leaders, Manal El Mazbouh (University of Auckland) and Yaqing Hou (Monash University), are pleased to present the Special Call for Papers for the New and Emerging Researchers of OCIES (NERO) Special Issue, to be published in the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives. This call invites new and emerging scholars—postgraduate students, early-career academics, first-time authors, and community researchers—to engage a central provocation: “What is Comparative and International Education (CIE) in, for, with, and from Oceania?” CIE is a complex and shifting field, shaped by geopolitical changes, epistemic turns, and planetary crises. New researchers entering the field often discover that CIE defies simple definitions. Instead, this Special Issue asks contributors to embrace the complexity, curiosity, and criticality that have long characterised CIE in our region. Contributors are asked to submit a 250 to 350 word abstract, and abstracts are due on the 28 February 2025. Please read the full call for papers here.

CCH Hub Site

We have a Sharepoint site (for Deakin staff and students only). This is where you can find CCH templates and logos, and importantly – new grant application forms. CCH members should have access, but you will need to use your Deakin login.

Final Note

This is my last newsletter as Newsletter Editor/CCH Executive Coordinator. Thank you all for reading the newsletters, providing items to share, and helping to grow the fabulous CCH community. I will miss this job, especially the people, but the time is right to take on new challenges! Thanks to the CCH Executive for all their support.

And yes, choosing the cover photo for the newsletter is a highlight each fortnight.

Keep in touch – Anna.

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