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CRAWFORD PHD

Getting set up, important stuff for when you first arrive, on this page.

Enrolment Arrival Key people Orientation Student card Desk allocation Office etiquette Building access Email and IT set up Computers and software Interactive Student Information System (ISIS) Services and amenities fee PhD mailing list Program mailing lists Facebook groups Copying and printing Stationery Telephone Mail Getting your profile up on the Crawford website Business cards ANU letterhead

Research students are enrolled in the ‘course’ CRWF 9540 PhD Crawford School of Public Policy (and also in coursework ). You cannot enrol yourself into the degree online. Instead, most students are automatically enrolled each semester in CRWF 9540. Please check your record on ISIS to ensure that your enrolment and program information are correct.

If you are initially enrolled in an intriductory, pre-sessional program (for example, if you are an AusAID student) or bridging course you will not be able to enrol in the research degree (i.e., CRWF 9540) until the requirements for those initial courses are met.

For more information on how to enrol, visit the research students enrolment pages.

When we receive notification that you will be joining Crawford PhD, we will email you to ask about your intended frequency of desk use and allocate (or not) a desk accordingly. After that, you will receive several more email messages providing you with general information, as well as information about how you can request building access and how you can set up your PhD student profile on the list of current PhD students on the Crawford website . We will also subscribe you to the Crawford PhD mailing list . We will send these messages to the personal email account you have nominated as a contact address (your ANU email may not yet have been set up).

Please note that all new students are to commence before the beginning of the coursework semester and preferably at the beginning of semester 1, which usually starts in February (semester 2 typically starts in July). This means that you should arrive in Canberra at least one week before semester in order to get oriented to the Crawford School. Check the university calendar for dates. A Crawford PhD induction session is held in the week before semester starts; we will let you know by email of the exact date for your induction session.

Once you arrive on campus, please introduce yourself to the HDR Administrator and the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor so we can make you welcome, introduce you to other students, and show you around the place.  

The following people will all have something to do with your candidature at some time or other. The list is presented in order of daily usefulness and frequency of interaction, rather than in order of seniority.

HDR (higher degree research) administrator. The HDR administrator is your first port of call for information about enrolment, course progression, fees, building access, coursework, travel, leave, forms, funding requests, milestones and progress, and requests for extension. Email [email protected] with a subject line that begins with ‘CRAWFORD PhD’ and that also includes your uni ID/student number.

PhD academic and research skills advisor. The PhD academic and research skills advisor can help you with things such as thesis writing, journal article writing and publication, research project management, chapter outlining, feedback on your writing, reading strategically, structuring text, research proposals, compiling literature reviews, time management, oral presentations, thesis completion, supervision, and more. To organise a consultation time, contact the PhD academic and research skills advisor.

IT service desk. The IT service desk assists with computer problems, printers, software, network connections, and so on. Please do not email individual IT people if you need IT help. See the section on Getting IT help for information on how to log an IT job via the IT Service Desk.

CAP Facilities. For building and facilities help. Contact the facilities people for anything to do with room bookings, furniture removal and requests, keys, cleaning, facilities malfunctions, and similar. Email [email protected] with a subject line that begins with ‘CRAWFORD PhD’ and that also includes your uni ID/student number.

Crawford Main Reception.   Crawford Main Reception can help with copier and printer problems. Email [email protected] .

HDR convenors . The convenors advise on academic matters in your academic area , and are members of the Crawford Higher Degree Research (HDR) Committee .

PhD seminar co-ordinators . The co-ordinators organise the PhD seminars in your academic area .

Higher degree research (HDR) director . The HDR director is the Delegated Authority for PhD matters. The HDR director chairs the Crawford HDR Committee where decisions concerning PhD students are made regarding applications, scholarships, research funding, student seminars, and PhD events.

If you want to Cc the PhD academic and research skills advisor into any messages you send to any of the above contacts, then that’s fine — it helps us keep a track of any problems you are having.

ORIENTATION

New student orientation is held in the week before coursework classes start for both semesters 1 and 2. You should make every effort to attend. If you don’t turn up and then ask us a question that was covered at orientation, we will remind you that you didn’t attend the orientation. So, it’s best to attend orientation to avoid the embarrassment. If you have not yet officially been accepted into the PhD program, you are nevertheless welcome to attend orientation. Orientation covers such topics as

Progress, presentations, and milestones

Supervision

Ethics and research integrity

Travel, fieldwork, and leave

Getting set up

Safety and security

STUDENT CARD

Once your enrolment has been activated, the  HDR Administrator will let you know and you can collect your ANU student card . If you have been a student of the ANU previously and you already hold a student card, then you will need to have it re-activated by Student Central. Your student card acts as your

On-campus ID card

Library card

Building access card (swipe card)

Student concession card

Bike cage access card (on certain bike cages)

You are required to keep your student card on you at all time but, in practice, this rarely happens. Nonetheless, you should note that without your student card you may not be able to exit certain doors on campus after hours. See further important information on our health, safety, and security pages about how to exit the Stanner Building after hours. Once you have collected your card, we will request after-hours building access for you. Please let us know if you have any problems accessing the buildings after hours.

DESK ALLOCATION

If you intend to use your Stanner Building desk frequently, you will be provided with a desk, a chair, computer, etc., and a filing cabinet in a shared office. First year students are normally placed in one of the larger offices; this is both so you can get to know each other and because you are often undertaking coursework and thus coming and going from the room a fair bit (which can be distracting to later-year students who are writing up). We endeavour to move you to a smaller office as soon as possible. There are a couple of desk spaces that really are not very good at all — if you end up at one of these spaces, we will move you as soon as we can.

Please note that the student office areas are not for entertaining friends and family (including children) as this can be disruptive to other students who share the facilities. You should keep your area tidy and remain conscious of the needs of your office mate(s) and remember that there is no capacity for storing personal items on university premises.

Frequency of desk use is reviewed periodically. Desks are allocated according to the following principles:

Desks are allocated on demonstrated, frequent use. If you do not demonstrate frequent use of your desk space, you will lose it.

If you do not use your desk regularly, you will be assigned to the hotdesk room, Stanner Room 2.37.

If you go on fieldwork or leave for three (3) months or more and we need the space, you will be asked to clear your desk. Although we will try to hold your desk for you, if we need it, we will assign it to someone else and then provide you with a new allocation upon your return.

If you have submitted your PhD and have not yet had the thesis passed, you may be moved to the hotdesk room. This will allow you to continue working at Crawford. We will try to keep you at your old desk for as long as possible, but this cannot be guaranteed.

If you organise a swap amongst yourselves, then great! Just let us know so we can try to make it happen.

If we end up having to give your desk space to someone else because you are not using it, and if we have to pack up your belongings, please note that we can only store your items for a limited period of time before we must dispose of them. We will make attempts to contact you in the meantime, via email and via phone, so please make sure your details are up-to-date in (ISIS).

If you are allocated to the hotdesk room, please observe the following etiquette:

If you are using a laptop, please work on one of the empty desks so that both other students and CAP IT have access to the desks with the computers on them.

Please keep things tidy — that means not moving computers and monitors to one side and leaving them there (you shouldn’t have to move them, anyway, if you are using them), and it means clearing and straightening the desk you’ve been using at the end of the day. Again, this is just a courtesy to other hotdeskers and to CAP IT.

Whilst there is no entitlement to an office on a particular floor or with a particular outlook, we will try to keep you as happy as possible with your situation. If you are not happy (or if you become unhappy) with your situation, then please contact the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor . We want to accommodate you if we can, and we want to be flexible if we can. If you don’t want to talk to the Academic Skills Advisor, then please feel free to contact the HDR Administrator.

If you are issued with a SALTO swipe card, please note that SALTO cards have a 90-day update period programmed into them upon issue and they must therefore be revalidated within this update period. You can update your SALTO card at a SALTO update point (the silver boxes near the top entrance of the Weston Theatre and Crawford Main Reception) for another 90 days of access.

OFFICE ETIQUETTE

From time to time, students approach us with complaints about the in-office behaviour or habits of their roommates or neighbours. Such complaints typically involve

taking mobile, skype, or other calls that are lengthy and/or not work-related

conducting teaching consultations in the office

having friends and family regularly visit

sleeping overnight in the office

poor personal and/or food hygiene

low levels of office cleanliness

Of course, none of these things are a problem if they are irregular in occurrence, kept short, and/or addressed quickly (and of course, we try to be flexible and understanding …). We only tend to hear about them when they become and ongoing problem and when they start to impede people’s ability to work. And usually, we only tend to hear about them after they’ve been a problem for a couple of months!

So, just have a think about it. Think about how your habits might impact on others. Think about the shared workplace environment we work in. The general guidelines are:

Take all mobile calls outside. Because they’re mobile.

Conduct teaching consultations in the tutors' room on level 2, where they are meant to be held.

The timing of Skype conversations should be negotiated with office mates. As Skype convos are usually pre-arranged, you should check to see if your scheduled call will impact upon someone else’s trying to do their work.

Limit visits from friends and family.

Do not sleep in your office.

Attend to your personal hygiene and do not leave food out.

Give your office a wipe-over every now and then. If you need cleaning equipment, then see me.

Be neighbourly. Your in-office behaviour might impact not only your roommates, but also your neighbours. The walls in most ANU buildings are thin. If you have lengthy phone conversations or visitors, the noise can be heard next door.

Remember, you have a right to politely ask someone to take their call outside, re-schedule their call, make different childcare arrangements, sleep at home, wipe over their desk, etc. We know these matters are sensitive, but you do have a right to work in an environment that is conducive to errrr … doing work, so don’t ever feel that you can’t courteously raise workplace concerns with other people.

If you come to us about it, then our initial advice to students is always to try to sort things out amongst yourselves, as local solutions to such problems are always preferred. The same applies in most workplaces: if staff have a problem with a colleague, then we are expected to try to address things directly with them. If we can’t find a solution, only then do we take things to the next level. We realise that such conversations can seem difficult, so if you wish to raise with us any issues relating to office etiquette, then please feel free, and we can talk about how you might approach things. But do not wait for months before getting in touch: give things a week, and if they don’t improve, come and see us. As mentioned, we will then tell you to talk to the person(s) directly and help you to think through how to do that, but it also means that we can follow up on things the week after, if needs be. That’s only two weeks of discomfort, as opposed to months.

BUILDING ACCESS

We will request after-hours access to your building for youonce you have collected your ANU student card from ANU Student Central. Contact [email protected] if you have difficulties entering or leaving any of our buildings.  

EMAIL AND IT SET UP

After you are formally enrolled, you should log on to identity.anu.edu.au to see your email and general IT details. You will first asked to change your password. You can also see your e-mail alias, here. Printer access is automatically applied; however, if you do not have the printers you need, you should log a job at servicedesk.anu.edu.au.

All information updates from the programs and the School, and most University communication, are made via email using your ANU email address. It is your responsibility check your university email address regularly: all official ANU and Crawford communications and approvals are sent to this address. If you primarily use a different email address, for example a hotmail or gmail address, then we strongly recommend that you get your ANU email forwarded to that address so that you don’t miss out on any important communiqués. If you don’t know how to do this, then ask someone. Similarly, you should send messages to us using your ANU email if you want to receive a reply, not least because emails from some services (especially Yahoo!), often go through to junk mail folders and can be easily missed.

More information regarding ANU e-mail is available at the forwarding email pages on the ANU’s IT Services pages .

If you get your emails forwarded to your Yahoo! account, that’s fine, but if you reply to an ANU email from your Yahoo! account, then it is likely to be flagged as spam. This sometimes happens with Hotmail and Gmail and other service providers, but mostly it’s Yahoo! If you send us something from your Yahoo! account and you don’t get an answer within — at the latest — 48 hours, it’s because we haven’t seen your message. Basically, if you want to be sure that we receive your message, then you need to send it to us from your ANU account. You are meant to use your ANU account for all ANU-related correspondence anyway, so please get into the habit of doing that.

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE

After you are formally enrolled, you should log on to identity.anu.edu.au to see your email and general IT details. You will first asked to change your password. You can also see your e-mail alias, here. Printer access is automatically applied; however, if you do not have the printers you need, you should log a job at the  ANU service desk.

You will be provided with access to a computer that is linked to networked printers located in a nearby resource room. You will also be assigned an individual login account on the Crawford School network. Files are stored on a dedicated folder on the network drive, which is backed up daily. The computers are fitted with Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), an internet email application, a web browser, and various other internet utilities. Please see Getting software if you need a particular software program to complete your thesis (e.g., STATA, Eviews, Scientific Workplace, NVivo).

Use of laptops should be coordinated with IT Support – please do not connect a laptop without permission, as it can introduce viruses and other nasties into the system and make people very cross. Laptop chargers for personal laptops must be tested and tagged before they can be used on campus. Please see the ANU's Procedure: Bring your own device for further information.

The Crawford School has a number of computer labs in the Crawford School buildings. All computers provide the Information Commons service. As a PhD student, you can access all Information Commons computers across campus. Wireless facilities for laptops are available throughout the Crawford School complex. Guidelines for wireless usage can be found on the ANU website.

You must be familiar with the University Rules governing use of computing facilities and computing laboratories. Computers are for the use of authorised Crawford School users and unauthorised use is not permitted. Users are advised that downloading of copyright material (music, video, software, and books), using P2P file sharing software and viewing or downloading pornographic material is strictly forbidden under the University’s Acceptable Use of Information Infrastructure policy. Student use of the Crawford School’s computing facilities is monitored and any users found in breach of these policies will be disciplined. For more information, visit the nformation technology homepage.

See the section on Getting IT help for information on how to log an IT job via the IT Service Desk.

Please switch off your monitor when you have finished for the day. Similarly, unless you need to keep your computer on for virtual access reasons, please shut down your hard drive at the end of each working day.

INTERACTIVE STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (ISIS)

The Interactive Student Information System (ISIS) records your contact details, enrolment details, and course progress — in other words, it is the ‘student system’. It is your responsibility to regularly check your record on ISIS. Log in to ISIS using your student log in details and be sure to regularly check that your

Contact details are correct and up-to-date

Milestones have been completed and/or recorded correctly

Supervisory panel is up-to-date

Thesis/research project title is correctly recorded

Services and amenities fee and tuition fee payments are up-to-date

SERVICES AND AMENITIES FEE

As an ANU student, you have to pay the Services and Amenities fee. This fee is usually around $150 per semester for full-time PhD students. When you log in to ISIS, you’ll see an invoice for it under the accounts section. See the Services and Amenities fee web page on the ANU fees website for more information (and due dates). If you do not pay this fee, your access to ANU facilities — including the Library, buildings, and other services — will be locked. Yeah. Pay it. Or you can go home early.

PHD MAILING LIST

Upon your arrival at Crawford, your ANU email address will be added to the Crawford PhD mailing list. This list is used to distribute official information that is relevant to the day-to-day workings of your degree. Anyone can send a message to the list but all messages are held for moderation, after which they are either approved or rejected. If you want to send a message to all Crawford students, then please make sure the message is relevant to the cohort; in particular, consider whether or not the message might be better posted in the ANU Crawford PhD Facebook Group . The email address for the Crawford PhD mailing list is [email protected] .

It is important to note that when you get a message from the Crawford PhD mailing list, the message has not been sent from a particular individual’s email address; rather, it is sent through the [email protected] mailing address. This means that if you reply to a message sent from the [email protected] mailing address, then you are replying to everyone else on that list, and depending on what you’ve written, that could be quite embarrassing. You also need to know that not everyone who posts to the list actually is a member of the list, which means that if you respond to the list, the intended recipient may never get your reply. Please do not reply directly to messages that have been sent via the Crawford PhD mailing list — instead, if you need to email someone about a message they posted, then email them directly.

If you accidentally reply to the whole list, you can go in and withdraw your own message. When you post to the list, you will get a message saying something like, ‘Your post is being held for moderation’. There will then be a link that you can click on that will allow you to withdraw your post if you have posted it in error.

Crawford PhD mailing lists protocols A number of mailing lists operates in the Crawford PhD program:

PhD: [email protected]

ACDE: [email protected]

POGO: [email protected]

NSC: [email protected]

RE&D: [email protected]

Protocols for using these lists are as follows:

Only business-related messages will be approved.

Only moderators are to use the password and approve messages. The moderators for the respective lists are:

The HDR Administrator (all lists)

The PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor (all lists)

Convenors (relevant program lists)HDR

Those who have previously held any of these positions should not perform administrative or moderating functions unless requested.

PROGRAM MAILING LISTS

Programs have their own mailing lists, specific to PhD students enrolled in those programs. The addresses are:

RE&D: [email protected]

FACEBOOK GROUPS

Crawford PhD operates a Facebook group, ANU Crawford PhD . The group is relatively active, with students sharing information about funding opportunities, their own recent publications, upcoming conferences and seminars, the administrative idiosyncrasies of ANU, as well as the odd PhD-themed joke. Oh yeah, we have fun there. If you have a question that you think other students could be able to answer, or that you think other students might benefit from knowing the answer to, then put it in the Facebook group. Other useful Facebook groups and pages that you should consider joining and/or following are

ANU Research Skills and Training

Crawford School of Public Policy

Crawford School Students’ Association

Asia and the Pacific Policy Society

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Students’ Society

Australian Award Scholars at the Australian National University (if you are one of these scholars)

ANU International Aid and Development Group

COPYING AND PRINTING

You can use the local area photocopying and printing facilities in support of your research. At the present time there are no limits on the number of photocopies or print-outs that you can make, but records are scrutinised and abuse of the privilege may lead to its suspension, or to a limit being imposed. You are responsible for observing the rules on copyright and fair dealing.

You will be given a photocopying account code upon arrival for the photocopiers near to your office.

Please use double-sided (duplex) printing for your print jobs and make sure you collect your print jobs — don’t just print stuff out and then forget to collect it. PhD students use more paper than anyone else in Crawford — this is not an edifying statistic when you consider that most of us are doing climate change research. All the printers have been set to print-double sided by default, but if you are having any difficulties, talk to someone useful to see if they can figure out what’s going on (before you contact CAP IT).

As a courtesy to other users, and as part of the mutual responsibility thing we’ve got going at Crawford, please re-fill the paper tray when you pick up your print job. Contact [email protected] for additional paper and toner, or if there is a technical problem with the copier that you can’t fix yourself.

Check the stationery exchange in the photocopy room on the ground floor (Level 1) of the Stanner Building for stationery items. You are expected to supply other stationery yourself. Contact [email protected] for copy paper for printers and photocopiers.

Internal telephone numbers are based on the last five digits of the telephone number. To get an outside line dial ‘0’ first then the number. There is no access to numbers outside Canberra from students’ telephones. Crawford PhD student numbers are listed on the Crawford website (it is your responsibility to keep your contact details up to date ). To access your voicemail, use x5 3333.

The university telephone directory is available from the ANU homepage. The ANU switchboard number is 02 6125 5111.

It is University policy that HDR students may use the mailing service only for correspondence related to their research. The internal and external mail is picked up and delivered twice a day, Monday to Friday. To send mail, deposit it in one of the mail trays (they are labelled for internal, Australian, and international mail) at Crawford Main Reception on Level 2 in the Crawford Building. Incoming PhD student mail is delivered to the black inbox in the Common Room. As regards this, then,

Please check the black inbox in the Common Room for any mail you might have received.

Do not get non-work-related mail addressed to Crawford. Any mail you receive that is addressed to you at Crawford should be professional only. As with any workplace, we cannot guarantee the security of your private mail.

If you see mail for someone you respect and admire, then please show them how you feel about them by dropping by their office and delivering their mail to them. Everyone will then feel GOOD about themselves.

And just a reminder that it’s a criminal offence in this country to steal mail. So don’t steal — only deliver.

University mail will be sent to the address that you give on ISIS , the ANU’s student administration system. Do not use an ANU mailing address non-work-related mail.

GETTING YOUR PROFILE UP ON THE CRAWFORD WEBSITE

Having your profile up (and updated) on the list of current PhD students on the Crawford website is a valuable way of promoting your work to both the Crawford community as well as other academics and researchers at ANU — not to mention people outside the academic realm who may have an interest in what you are doing. Contact the  HDR Administrator if you want us to set up a basic profile for you; after that, however, you need to add to and update it yourself. To do this, go to ‘Staff login’ on your profile page click ‘Edit’ to keep your details up-to-date. We will remove your profile once you have graduated.

BUSINESS CARDS

It is normal practice not to issue business cards until after you have satisfactorily completed your Thesis Proposal Review , that is, around the end of your first year. Talk to your supervisor about getting business cards; if they agree the cards are necessary for the thesis research project, compete the form (below) and return it to the HDR Administrator so the cards can be arranged.

Business card application form

ANU LETTERHEAD

You may use ANU letterhead only for correspondence relating to your research. On all occasions when ANU letterhead is used, you must identify yourself as an HDR student at Crawford and must not represent yourself (directly or indirectly) as a member of staff. In no circumstances may ANU letterhead be used to correspond with the media. That way trouble lies. Any e-mail correspondence with the media must show clearly that you are an HDR student at Crawford. Failure to observe these rules will lead to a withdrawal of letterhead privileges (that sounds a bit weird, the way it’s worded — sorry). Contact [email protected] to request letterhead.

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Hritik Arora’s path to study at Crawford is full of twists and turns, but it begins in a bookshop. We sat down with him to find out how this led to his Master of Environmental Management and Development degree and what advice he would have for other students considering the program.

T ell us a bit about your background and where you grew up.

I grew up in a small town called Gangtok – the capital of a little state called Sikkim in India. With the town being comfortably nested in the foothills of the Himalayas, you could say that I grew up surrounded by the mountains, rivers, and the beautiful people that inhabit the place. Growing up, I used to frequent the bookstore run by my father. There, I spent most of my time sifting through the huge, burly, and colourful encyclopaedias just so that I could see the pictures of various animals such as the majestic tiger, plants, such as the golden wheat, and galaxies, such as the Milky Way. At that time, I could hardly grasp what everything in the encyclopaedia meant, but even so, a kind of innate peace and curiosity welled up inside me as I looked through it. This was my first exposure to how people tried to explain the things around them – using science.

As I spent years in school, I got to know how people for millennia have tried to explain the world around them, some failing and some succeeding. I learnt that with each failure and success, building on the work of the people before them, we achieved the unthinkable. Take, for example, eradicating smallpox - unthinkable a few centuries ago. To me, these teachings were like memoirs – the compilation of memories and efforts of people wanting to give back to society and to make the world a better place. Inspired by this and wanting to give back to society myself, I took up higher studies to find out what I’m good at – all so that I could, in my own small way, help make the world a better place.

Why did you choose to study at Crawford?

I started off my higher education learning more about the physical sciences and thus did an undergraduate degree with a triple major in Botany, Chemistry and Biotechnology. My rationale during my studies was that I might go work in drug development in the future – the best way to give back to society is to develop medicine for diseases, right?

However, as time passed, I came to a poignant realisation. The city where I did my undergraduate degree, Bangalore, was quite different from the town I grew up in. It was there that I had a first-hand experience of a truly polluted environment. Polluted ponds; mountains of plastic; heavy, humid and dusty air; and a dead concrete jungle devoid of plant life. Isn’t it the environment that is the root cause of the increasing disease incidence, and just simply working on producing new medicine isn’t acting on the root causes? It was at this moment that I realised that if I truly wanted to give back, I needed to work to address these root causes, and for that, I needed to know how to identify and work with them.

The Environmental Management and Development program at Crawford is different from the Environmental Sciences programs in other schools and universities. Here, we do not focus on the physical sciences aspect of the environment but rather the socio-economic and political aspects of tending to the environment. Here, I could understand these root causes and learn how people have tried to tackle and wrangle with them. This is why I chose to study the program. The fact that Crawford is internationally renowned for its research output and faculty was, frankly, the icing on the cake.

What topic area are you most interested in and why?

This is quite a difficult question to answer, frankly, because my interests lie in examining how humans have interacted with each other and with nature based on their cultures, institutions, priorities, and beliefs to build and form the current environment we know today. As such, I have dabbled with quite a lot of topics that have allowed me to explore this interest.

For example, I have a) Explored the role of competition, games and culture in Indore’s (a city in India) waste management policy for my Master’s research project and b) Learnt and utilised GIS and spatial analysis to learn how people quantify land-use priority, the knowledge which I utilised in my volunteering role at Beyond Zero Emissions.

Currently, I am also looking forward to understanding and tracking how a new payment for ecosystem services scheme called GREEN, which started in India recently to pay landowners to conserve their natural forests, evolves over time. As you can see, each project gives me the opportunity to examine certain aspects of ethnobiological interactions. With the research project, I examined how human-human interactions took place in a policy development context. With the GIS volunteering, I get to see how human-nature interaction takes place from the perspective of development, and the PES scheme examination gives me the opportunity to examine human-nature interaction from an economic, cultural and conservation perspective.

How would you describe your experience at Crawford?

The best way I could provide this description is perhaps in three words – challenging yet satisfying. Make no mistake, the program at Crawford will challenge you to deliver well beyond your initial expectations of your capability. I do say this, however, not as something negative but rather as something positive about the Crawford experience. As you are challenged and expected to deliver to high standards, you get the opportunity to work on yourself and go much beyond your earlier believed capability. You can expect the classes to be extremely personalised due to small class sizes, with extremely down-to-earth teachers and peers from all around the world. I assure you that you will learn something new every day.

Can you share your thoughts on how your experiences in local policy issues have shaped your perspective on global policy challenges? How will this perspective guide your future endeavours in public policy? What do you think policymakers in Australia and the region should focus on?

In saying this, I do realise that I am opening a can of worms, but I also believe that this example really exemplifies what I believe is the biggest lesson I have learnt in the program – everyone has their own beliefs and priorities which shape their outlook to life and what they consider to be problems. Their beliefs and priorities might be extremely different to the common beliefs and priorities, but it is only by putting them on the table for discussion can we really work towards solving wicked problems such as climate change. To do this, we must learn not to take people’s views and experiences with a grain of salt but rather consider them seriously. Only then would working together be possible. The feral horse case in Australia exemplifies this extremely well. While many take the horses to be a cultural icon and a symbol of their history, many others see them as a threat to Australia’s native environment and Indigenous culture – both are true if seen from the perspectives of the people giving these arguments. But, to work towards what is ultimately good for Australians in general, both these parties need to work together.

What is the most memorable experience from your time at Crawford?

This would be my research project. Initially, when I started the program, I had never intended to do a research project. However, curiosity and the want to learn and experience got the better of me. I must say though, that the experience was the best decision I made. From getting funding from the Bhati family travel grant (thank you to the Bhati team!) to selecting and refining research topics, doing the fieldwork, and presenting my findings to the faculty at Crawford, I cannot stress how grueling, tough, but ultimately fun and satisfying the experience was. For this, I will appreciate and thank Associate Professor Keith Barney , Associate Professor Sarah Milne , and Professor Assa Doron for their guidance throughout. From guiding me, commenting on my findings, pushing me forward, and for the tasty-tasty carrot cake, I cannot thank them enough.

What advice would you give to prospective students considering studying this course at Crawford?

Go for it! If you like learning more and want to know how to learn more, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it here. However, I must stress that you will be expected to pull your weight, maybe much more than you’ve ever pulled before, and be challenged to think in ways you’ve never been before – all of which will lead you to see that you are much more capable than you imagine.

What’s next for you after graduation?

My goal is to do a PhD, where I can explore human-human-nature interaction to my heart’s content. However, before that, I intend to work for a few years in the environmental sector (ideally, where I can work with indigenous communities) to save up some money. It’s also during this time that I will be focusing on working on my other projects (remember the examination of the PES scheme I spoke about earlier?) and publishing them. I am slowly building my skills in research.

Hritik’s outstanding academic achievement has earned him the Tiri Tiri Prize for which he will receive special recognition at the Crawford graduation celebration this Friday.

Congratulations from all of us here at Crawford on finishing your degree, Hritik! We can’t wait to see where your skills take you next.

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Doctor of Philosophy, Crawford School of Public Policy

A single four year research award offered by the Crawford School of Public Policy

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Students studying a PhD program in Economics undertake a program of full-time study that comprises two parts: Coursework (Part A) and Research (Part B). All PhD candidates must complete both parts of the doctoral program. Part A normally consists of two consecutive semesters of coursework . Part B consists of research, participation in seminars and workshops, and submission of a thesis.

Study consists of three to four years of full-time study or part-time equivalent.

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The Doctor of Philosophy requires the submission and successful examination of a thesis of up to 100,000 words (a book length work would usually be 70,000-90,000 words), exceeding the maximum word count should seek special permission.

If the thesis is by publications, the thesis should be consist of single authored four published papers in good journals, or received acceptance letters of the four papers from good journals. These should be journals that are considered to be good quality in the relevant topic and disciplines. The supervisors should work together with the students to set a list of good journals for the students to aim for. The journals should be indicated in the students' annual report and be approved by the supervisory panel and delegated authority. The submitted thesis should still be bound together with an introduction chapter, a literature review chapter and conclusion. The students need to show the logical connections between the different chapters and demonstrate that the published papers are well integrated into one research. It is important that the four papers should not repeat each other.

The Doctor of Philosophy requires the completion of two units of coursework, which must consist of:

• POGO8196 Research Design (12 units, Semester 1, offered by Crawford School of Public Policy)
• POLS8004 Postgraduate Training in Politics and Policy: Research Methods (6 units, Semester 2, offered by the School of Politics and International Relations).

These courses are different from the Masters level research design courses available at the ANU as important guidance on PhD training and thesis writing will also be covered. These courses are specific to the degree and program. Students who have taken Master’s level research method courses would not be exempt from these courses unless the student has a proven record of academic publication or extensive research experience.

The Policy and Governance Program conducts a PhD candidate reading group on selected themes on public policy and governance. All students are expected to participate and contribute to the reading group.

If a student’s background is inadequate and needs more detailed and basic research methods training, they may be asked to take or audit:

• POGO8096 : Research methods (this is a Master’s level course)

A student may also be asked to undertake additional courses if the supervisor considers it necessary to aid the successful completion of their dissertation. The following is a list of Master degree courses available at Crawford School of Public Policy which are possible additional courses.

• Master of Public Policy
• Master of Public Administration
• Master of Public Policy specialising in Policy Analysis
• Master of Public Policy specialising in Development Policy
• Master of Public Policy specialising in Economic Policy
• Master of Public Policy specialising in International Policy
• Master of Public Policy specialising in Social Policy

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The Doctor of Philosophy requires the submission and successful examination of a thesis of up to 100,000 words. The thesis can be shorter and organised as a series of papers. An option for PhD through publication is under development.

Study consists of two to four years of full-time study or part-time equivalent.

Coursework requirements are being developed. Indicatively the following coursework requirements will apply for newly enrolled students, with the research proposal/project subjects to aid in preparation of the PhD research proposal:

• EMDV 8102 Research Methods
• EMDV 8008 Research Proposal
• EMDV 8066 Research Project

A student may also undertake additional courses that benefit their research, and may be asked by their supervisor to undertake additional courses to aid the successful completion of their dissertation.

To be admitted to the Economics PhD program you are required to have the equivalent of an H2A degree in economics (not business or accounting) from an Australian Go8 university. A degree at the same level with honours in mathematics or statistics is considered equivalent, provided the candidate has an undergraduate major in economics with at least a distinction in a third-year economics course.

Candidates are required to have a background in mathematical economics at least at the level of the course ECON6015 Optimization Techniques for Economists or IDEC8015 Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics . For those students who do not have this background, the Research School of Economics in the College of Business and Economics offers a summer course called Mathematical Techniques for Advanced Economic Analysis . The examination from this summer course (which occurs just before the academic year starts) will be used as a mathematical economics entry test.

It is also assumed that candidates have a background in basic econometrics at least at the level of IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques or EMET8005 . Candidates who do not satisfy this requirement may be permitted to satisfy it while enrolled in Part A, but the course will not be counted towards the Part A coursework requirement.

To be admitted to the Doctor of Philosophy program you will be required to have

• A BA with First Class Honours with at least three years’ work experience in a research environment and with a proven academic publication record as a first author. This will be assessed on a case by case basis.
• A Master’s Degree in social science or related fields of social studies. The applicant should have received an average of 75 at ANU or equivalent results from other universities

You may be granted admission if you can demonstrate that you have a background equivalent to these qualifications.

To be admitted to the Doctor of Philosophy program you will be required to have completed at least a four-year Australian degree or equivalent with a result of at least H2A. You may be granted admission if you can demonstrate that you have a background equivalent to these qualifications. All applicants must meet the University’s English Language Admission Requirements for Students .

If you are interested and meet the requirements, you should identify potential supervisors among the faculty, and contact the RE&D PhD Convener or the potential supervisor with an outline of the proposed research and a CV.

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The Australian National University provides research students with a vibrant research community and outstanding program support . When selecting a research program, an institution’s reputation is everything. ANU is one of the world’s leading universities, and the smart choice for your research program.

You can undertake a program of research at ANU through a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), a Master of Philosophy (MPhil), or a Professional Doctorate (by research). The major component of a research program is a substantial written work known as a thesis, which investigates a particular subject or issue. As a research student you will work with increased independence, under the direction of an academic supervisor or a supervisory panel of academic staff.

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The Doctor of Philosophy award will take you between three and four years of full-time research to complete (you can also complete a part-time equivalent). This award is conducted in English and is made principally on the basis of a research thesis comprising of original written work, most typically up to 100,000 words. Your thesis will be independently assessed by no fewer than two examiners where at least one examiner is external to the University. Depending on your discipline an alternative to a written thesis may be submitted and assessed.

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Many jobs require high-level economic analysis and our graduates work in consulting firms, think tanks, government research departments, and private enterprise.

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Students are expected to give one seminar each year of their doctoral studies in the Policy and Governance seminar series attended by staff members and fellow students. These three presentations will be:

• 1st year: Research proposal (including research question, literature review, research design and research methods)
• 2nd year: Fieldwork experience and reflection on research methods
• 3rd and 4th year: Research findings (or further research plans)   

Apart from presenting, PhD students are expected to attend seminars regularly, and be actively involved in providing constructive comments on the work of others.

The main supervisor (or the Chair) should be an on-going academic in the Policy and Governance Program. The student is expected to be an active member of the program and contribute intellectually to the program’s research activities. At the end of the first year, in preparation for their research proposal seminar, the student is expected to complete a no more than 35 page document which includes the following:

• Introduction—Introduces the broad topic, explains its relevance and sets out the specific research questions;
• An initial review of the relevant literature which will provide the theoretical framework for the PhD;
• Methodology chapter which restates the research questions, sets out the proposed methodology and research design and includes research timeline.

A summary of this information is expected to be presented at the first seminar which will be attended by the supervisory panel as well as other staff members and PhD students. At the conclusion of the proposal seminar, the supervisory panel will meet to discuss whether the student:

• Needs to make any changes or amendments to research design and methodology before being allowed to progress to next stage of research—i.e. data collection (fieldwork); or
• Whether in the opinion of the supervisory panel, the student is not capable of completing the PhD and their enrolment should be terminated.

The assessment will be based on:

• Whether the student has a clear idea about their research question
• Whether the student is aware of the main literature and on-going debates on the topic
• Whether the research methodology is suitable for the research question
• Whether the research plan is feasible

The final thesis should be no more than 100,000 words in length including footnotes and tables. When the thesis is complete, the thesis is examined by two outside examiners who are experts in the relevant field. The PhD degree is awarded solely on the basis of the examination of the research thesis. While examiners will be aware that the candidate has completed coursework requirements, the level of performance in coursework is not taken into account in examining the candidate for the award of the degree.

A final presentation of the PhD results will occur after the student submits their thesis, preferably after the candidate has received positive responses from external examiners. The presentation will be publicised to a wider audience from outside Crawford School of Public Policy.

The decision on whether the student is qualified for a PhD will still be made by external examiners.

It is University policy that each candidate’s progress should be reviewed periodically. Within the Policy and Governance program, the supervisor will regularly meet with the student to discuss progress and offer written suggestion for progress every year.

Every six months, supervisory panel will formally assess the students’ progress. The student will be given a written consent to proceed or warning to improve. Failing to improve as suggested, the supervisory panel can decide whether the student should terminate.

At the end of each year, PhD candidates are required to submit an Annual Plan, which outlines their research plan for the next twelve months, and an Annual Report, which summarises their progress in their research and also discusses difficulties or changes in their research path, if any. The Progress Report and the Annual Plan form the basis of the student’s Annual Review. The University's policies in relation to higher degree research students can be found at the  higher degree research guide page .

As well as active participation in student seminars, Policy and Governance PhD students may have the opportunity to gain teaching experience by working with Policy and Governance academics as a tutor or teaching assistant. Students who are interested in doing this should discuss the option with their supervisors.

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For each PhD student, a supervisory panel is established with a chair from among the academics in the RE&D program and additional supervisors from among the Crawford School or wider ANU faculty or other universities.

Students are expected to give one seminar each year on their doctoral studies, attended by academic staff, fellow students and invited experts. A proposal seminar is held within the first year, followed by annual progress seminars and a final presentation of the PhD results, usually after submission of the thesis.

PhD students are expected to regularly attend research seminars and relevant public forums, to provide constructive comments on the work of others, and more broadly to contribute to the intellectual life at Crawford School.

Each candidate’s progress will be reviewed periodically. The supervisor will regularly meet with the student to discuss progress and offer written suggestion for progress. The supervisory panel will meet occasionally to assess the students’ progress, and can recommend termination of the candidature if progress is inadequate.

PhD candidates are required to submit Annual Plans, which outline their research plan for the next twelve months, and Annual Reports, which summarise their progress in their research and also discusses difficulties or changes in their research path, if any. The University's policies in relation to higher degree research students can be found at the  higher degree research guide page .

As well as active participation in student seminars, RE&D PhD students may have the opportunity to gain teaching experience by working with academics as a tutor or teaching assistant.

RE&D PhD students work alongside their peers in the public policy and economics programs, and interactions across the programs are encouraged.

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