No Images? Click here 20 DECEMBER 2018 Thank you for your support in 2018As the work year winds down here at the United States Studies Centre, I wanted to use this opportunity to thank you for your interest in our work and your support for our mission. The Centre exists to deepen Australia’s understanding of both the United States and of Australia’s relationship with the United States. We accomplish this with “research first”, backed up by our superb events and communications teams, helping us get our work into the hands of policymakers, journalists and the public. Our academic teams take our mission into the classroom, teaching 961 students in 33 units of study at the University of Sydney this year alone. The Centre’s motto, “analysis of America, insight for Australia”, is reflected in our research reports this year, some of which included:
We've also looked at diversifying the way we deliver some of our expertise and editorial content in 2018. You'll now find 20 explainers on our website, developed over the past 12 months to help you understand some of the policy issues, personalities and peculiarities of American politics in easily digestible reads – with more to come in 2019. You can also now listen to the Centre's new podcast, 2020Vision, which hosts our experts, guests and friends who provide their analysis of the big issues leading up to the 2020 US presidential election. It makes the perfect accompaniment to The 45th, our weekly US politics newsletter which continued its successful run in the past 12 months, with more than 100 editions now published. The Centre’s experts were prominent in Australian and international media this year, talking about our research and its implications for Australia, with more than 150 op-eds and hundreds more appearances in television and radio. I’m especially pleased with the work of our Centre fellows. In addition to Stephen Loosley, Charles Edel and Elsina Wainwright, in 2018 we added John Lee (former senior advisor to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop) and Bruce Wolpe (former advisor to Julia Gillard and Democratic staffer) to the Centre’s roster. The midterm elections proved to be our busiest period in 2018, with a special live recording of the ABC's Planet America program featuring Centre staff, briefings for MPs in Parliament House in Canberra and business leaders in Sydney, some well-read research looking at the implications of the result, and countless interviews and live-crosses by our hard-working expert team. In 2018, we hosted big speeches from Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Shadow Defence Minister Richard Marles, as well as visits by Boston Globe editor-at-large Walter V Robinson, New Yorker Magazine's Susan Glasser, The New York Times' Peter Baker, and former Republican Leader of the House of Representatives John Boenher, among our many events throughout the year. On a personal note, I was honoured to have been elected this year as a fellow to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia – one of 36 academics from across Australia deemed by our peers to have significantly advanced research knowledge and developed new approaches to important areas within the social sciences. I look forward to continuing our important work in 2019. Best wishes for a safe and relaxing holiday, Professor Simon Jackman Manage your email preferences | Forward this email to a friend United States Studies Centre |