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Special Announcement

Support for potential postgraduate students
The School of History and Philosophy offers postgraduate supervision across all our fields of interest. For example, we currently have supervisors available for Masters and PhD research in:

  • Continental Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Gender Studies
  • History of Science and Technology
  • History of Medicine
  • Environment and Society
  • History of France (Early Modern and Modern)
  • History of India
  • Early and Modern Southeast Asian History especially the Philippines and Indonesia
  • Historical Archaeology

Potential students who would like to meet supervisors can apply for funding from the Graduate Research School (GRS) to come for a day to meet with our staff. Please check the GRS website for the application process and instructions. Applications for the next 2009 round will open on August 2, 2009 and close on September 7, 2009. You are also invited to contact the School’s Postgraduate Coordinator Dr. Mina Roces.

Welcome to the School of History and Philosophy

Our school is one of Australia's leading humanities schools and is also one of five research and teaching schools in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of New South Wales. We are located in the Library Lawn precinct of UNSW’s vibrant Kensington campus, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. (Campus map)

Our teaching programs and courses anchor the UNSW Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and we coordinate several of the ‘majors’ within the BA. The School hosts three key disciplines:

• History
• Philosophy
• History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

We also contribute to streams of teaching and research in: 

• Americas Studies
• Archaeology and Pre Modern Studies
• Asian Studies
• Australian Studies
• Environmental Policy and Management (Environmental Studies)
• European Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies

In our teaching and research activities, we use the methodologies of history and philosophy to explore:

• Historical, cultural and political contexts for today’s pressing social issues.
• The moral and ethical basis for human choice and decision-making.
• How and why social change occurs.
• Human responsibility for social systems, places and environments.
• Links between human values and knowledge production.
• The social context of science and technology.

School of History and Philosophy Achievements for 2008