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ACU's innovative Step Up into Teaching (SUIT) program is a finalist in Universities Australia's 2025 Shaping Australia Awards.
Young people who experience multiple types of maltreatment in childhood have a 55 per cent higher rate of problematic alcohol use compared with those who do not experie...
Young people want disability to stop being seen as something that needs to be "fixed", new ACU research shows.
Professor Ester Cerin has been recognised with a prestigious Nobel Sustainability Trust award for her contributions to the Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable...
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has reestablished the Fethullah Gülen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim–Catholic Relations to mark the 60th anniversary of Pop...
Almost 100 children have enjoyed a new ACU program connecting low-SES schools with state-of-the-art STEM technology and activities.
The 2025 Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Awards were held at the Melbourne Campus this week, celebrating the outstanding work of staff across the university.
ACU education and wellbeing experts have united to provide practical advice to support senior school students in the lead up to their end of year exams.
Atec needs to ensure that compacts genuinely strengthen social licence and drive meaningful change - not just compliance, says ACU Vice-Chancellor and President, Profes...
Exercise has the potential to be as effective as medicine in preventing and treating a range of disease.
ACU has taken out the top spot in Australia for research quality in the Times Higher Education 2026 World University Rankings.
More than 30 Australian Catholic University (ACU) experts have been named in the top two per cent of scientists globally.
The incidence of temporary storage sites was among the novel findings of a groundbreaking Australian Catholic University study into group-based body disposal in murder ...
ACU has received its largest ever pledged bequest for theology and philosophy, an extraordinary gift worth more than USD10ドル million.
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has ranked number one in Australia for employer satisfaction, according to the latest QILT Employer Satisfaction Survey (ESS).
Australian Catholic University has welcomed its first education exchange student from India.
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping our world but whose ethics, needs and perspectives is it serving?
ACU Canberra’s new occupational therapy apartment has been officially opened.
A frank, youth-led discussion about perceptions of military service will form part of an Australian Catholic University study into young people's understanding of the A...
ACU researchers will scientifically evaluate the metabolic health benefits of the popular Sydney-based Mrs. Toddy’s Tonic beverage range.
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Research with usEvery 25 years, the Church proclaims a Holy Year, a special gift of grace and mercy for all people and a time for the faithful to be renewed in their commitment. ACU will be celebrating the 2025 Pilgrims of Hope Jubilee with events and activities designed to bring us together as a community, renew us in our commitment and refresh us to take up our mission anew.
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Meet Tara, the ACU graduate who is combining her entrepreneurial spirit with her Indigenous heritage.
Youth work graduate
Atong has an unstoppable vision for the future of South Sudanese youth in Australia.
Nursing graduate
Raised in Ipswich in southeast Queensland, Dr Derek Chong is the state's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychiatrist.
Youth work graduate
Nicola Parkes has dedicated her life to supporting people with a refugee experience.
We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' deep spiritual connection to Country and thank them for their continued custodianship. We acknowledge the importance of Indigenous knowledges and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waterways where we work, learn and live.
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Discover ACU’s community engagement activities for the common good. With the university mission at the heart, we work with a rich network of community partners to address social issues. ACU’s commitment to quality community engagement has led us to be named as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Carnegie Community Engagement Classification in Australia.
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