Deepening our understanding of issues confronting contemporary society
The Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR) is dedicated to increasing our understanding of current challenges facing the modern world. Through the application of innovative humanities and social science research, incorporating the knowledge of academics from a broad range of interrelated disciplines, we are at the cutting edge of humanities and social science discourse. Our Centre's research is focused on the following contemporary themes: History, Media and Change; Mobilities, Communities and In/securities; Heritage and Wellbeing; Language, Culture and Belonging.
Sustainable Development Goals
Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is committed to fostering partnerships to create synergies, best practices and amplifying our impact in achieving the SDGs for a more sustainable and inclusive future for all.
Research Themes
Recent Highlights & Publications
Check out the new industry report 'Mentoring, mental wellbeing, and community development: new research highlights priority areas for community media training' resulting from work conducted over the past year by Dr Heather Anderson and Dr Bridget Backhaus.
Distinguished Professor Paul Taçon with Post Doc Research Fellow Dr Andrea Jalandoni and team have uncovered the artist who created Australia's earliest bark and rock paintings. Read The Conversation piece: Returning a name to an artist: the work of Majumbu, a previously unknown Australian painter.
Read the recent Griffith Enlighten piece by Resident Adjunct Dr Susan de Groot Heupner, which explores both replacement theory and premillennialism: What makes the idea of civilisations being replaced so popular again?
What's on at the Centre
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