ASSA's New Website Launched
28 November 2001

The Academy launched a new version of its website on 28 November. Developed in-house, the new site boasts not only a new look, but also updated contents and newer functions. The new site was developed to accommodate the various publics who visit - ASSA Fellows, media representatives, scholars, government officials, the general public - who can easily navigate to the variety of material that our visitors typically seek.

Main features of the new website include:

• Real-time updated information on Academy Fellows, including an improved search engine to search for Fellows with specific research interests. ASSA Fellows can also update their information real-time on the web using our Fellows Only Login area.
• ASSA Publications - Academy publications can now be downloaded in PDF format and a new search engine enabling users to locate material of interest.
• More information about Academy activities and improved NEWS AND EVENTS section to stay abreast of what's happening at the Academy and in the social sciences.

It is envisaged that the website will continually evolve to engage all publics with the social science community, providing links to orginisations and specialist researchers in a variety of fields. ASSA's website will become an important first stop in locating people and information.

Certain features of the website are still in development and will be completed by 5 December 2001.

New Academy Fellows 2001
12 November 2001

	New Fellows Induction at the Academy on 11 November 2001 (Photo - front row from left to right)
1st: J Wong, D Gibson, D Dunphy, C Peterson (Executive Committee), M Luszcz 2nd: D Ironmonger, S Richardson (Executive Committee), C Condren, J Foster 3rd: J Beaton (Executive Director), A Blackshield, D Walker, G Leder, L Mann (President), H Morphy Back: P Dawkins, D Tryon, J Connell Absent: W Deane, M Langton, D McEachern, K Saunders, F Stilwell, A Yeatman

Twenty new Fellows have been elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2001. They have been so honoured for having achieved distinction, in the opinion of their peers, in one or more of the social sciences. They are:

Professor Anthony Blackshield, Emeritus Professor of Law, Macquarie University; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New South Wales; Adjunct Professor of Law, Australian National University;
Professor Conal Condren, Director, Humanities Research Program, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales;
Associate Professor John Connell, Division of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney;
Professor Peter Dawkins, Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne;
Professor Dexter Dunphy, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales;
Professor John Foster, Head, Department of Economics, University of Queensland;
Dr Diane Gibson, Head, Aged Care Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra;
Associate Professor Duncan Ironmonger, Director, Households Research Unit, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne;
Professor Marcia Langton, Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne;
Professor Gilah Leder, Graduate School of Education, La Trobe University;
Professor Mary Luszcz, School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia;
Professor Douglas McEachern, Head, Department of Politics, University of Adelaide;
Professor Howard Morphy, Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University;
Dr Kay Saunders, Reader in History, University of Queensland;
Associate Professor Frank Stilwell, Department of Economics, University of Sydney;
Dr Darrell Tryon, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University;
Professor David Walker, School of Australian and International Studies, Deakin University;
Dr John Wong, Reader in History, University of Sydney; and
Professor Anna Yeatman, Professor of Sociology, Macquarie University.
Honorary Fellow: Sir William Deane.

Academy Award Winners
12 November 2001

Due to an outstanding field of candidates in 2001, the Academy decided to award the Academy Medal jointly to Dr Kaarin Anstey and Dr Robert Hill.

[Photos below of Dr Anstey and Dr Hill receiving their awards (left to right): Professor Fay Gale (former ASSA President), award winner, Professor Leon Mann (ASSA President)]

Dr Anstey was born in 1965 and after graduating with honours from the University of Sydney went on to complete her doctorate at the University of Queensland. Her research has an interdisciplinary orientation in psychology, gerontology and psychiatry and she has made a major contribution to research in the field of cognitive ageing. She is currently engaged in a program of collaborative research on injury in older people. At present she is working in the Department of Psychology at Flinders University and in late 2001 will move to the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. She has been honoured by awards from the International and Australian Associations of Gerontology and the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research and her work has been supported with grants and fellowships from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Alzheimer's Association.

Dr Hill is a highly respected scholar in the field of international comparisons of prices, real income and standard of living. His significant contributions in the field of economic measurement are based on major advances in the theory underlying index number methods used in multilateral comparisons of prices and quantities across countries. These contributions have been made in: comparisons of living standards across countries; the measurement of inflation; Index number theory; Environmental accounting; Expectations, capital gains and income; and, the economic theory of spatial cost of living indexes. He has been awarded the Albert J Whiteley Memorial Fellowship and received ARC and University of NSW grants to support his work, and has served as a consultant to the UN.

The Academy is proud to honour these two outstanding younger scholars for their research contributions and will follow their careers with interest.

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Medal honours younger Australians who have achieved excellence in scholarship in the social sciences.

Review of the Australian Learned Academies 2000 (12 June 2001)
DETYA's reviews of the four Learned Academies and by Professors Geoffrey Blainey and John Maloney.